Please support them, they want 40% increase in pay, 32 hour work week, more PTO. The automotive rank and file are protesting the extremely high pay for CEO's. This includes Stankey, overpaid like old of monkey dung.
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Toyota and Honda are American made . Factories in Texas , Tennessee and
other states. Parts are made all over the world. It’s a worldwide economy now. Competition is a good thing. Ford trucks are
the best trucks for decades. As far as automobiles go Just don’t buy a Saab or an Audi! Like everything else , do your research and buy what is best for you.
Work 32 hours and get paid for 40 hours. Great concept! I want 40 hours pay for 10 hours work 😃. Corporations have one purpose: make a profit for their shareholders. Employees and equipment and buildings are necessary expenses. Pie in the sky demands are d-mb. A company that gives into ridiculous demands violates their fiduciary duty to make a profit for their shareholders. That is capitalism and that’s the system we work under. The UAW is costing the employees wages and benefits by not being reasonable and is violating their responsibility to the employees. The UAW was corrupt for years and is now trying some stupid tactics to try and make up for past failures.
I would bet that 90% of labor “negotiations “ are already settled months before contract expiration. It is a big dance to justify the union leaders and the exorbitant dues collected from the workers. Hundreds of millions of dollars in the union coffers and hundreds of millions of dollars in the CEO’s bank accounts. Guess who the ultimate winners are.
Facts: The previous UAW presidents are in jail since being convicted of corruption. Obviously they were greedy sc-mbags. Now this current UAW president is trying to play hardball. It’s just a stupid dance that will harm the workers while the union bosses and CEOs enjoy their luxurious lifestyles.
Haven't bought an American car in 30 years. Strike away!
Who do you think is going to pay for all that? You. Higher car prices. Higher taxes. All so the people who make the least reliable cars on Earth can keep doing it for a few more years.
Let’s be real……..those demands aren’t anywhere near reasonable. I could support them if they were being reasonable, but with those demands…….F’ em. This is why the average American doesn’t give 2 cents for unions.
“I want to see to the AT&T CP "Strike force". “….
It will be the contractors they’re chomping at the bit to bring in as a permanent replacements for craft , not just to cover a 2 or 3 week strike.
I want to see to the AT&T CP "Strick force". If the CWA does decide to to strike in 2024. By then most of you should be in a hub, Dallas or Atlanta. Maybe the company will magically have the money to fly you in all over the Country to climb poles, go into attics, find issues in manholes, some are 20 feet deep, replace fiber lashed to copper that has been stolen by crack heads pulling cooper down. Might need to learn how to carry a 20 foot extension ladder from your truck to the span that is 25 feet.
I know, I know. You a special. I'm a manager.
AT&T cares not for you.
The Big 3 & T have a few things in common. TB3 makes mostly overall junk products for which consumers have better options elsewhere(with the exception of heavier duty pickup trucks that none of the non-Big 3 produce). The commercial/fleet lines are good for TB3 & consumers for what they are: mass-volumes of “cheap” basic panel vans, cab/chassis trucks, & sedans that are driven till the wheels fall off. Their labor pool(management & non) is MOSTLY lower skilled for which all are well compensated but nowhere near the level of their CEOs.
T, similarly, is a dying model. Their bread & butter product, POTS is coming to a close. Their “new” flagship product, fiber internet is scarcely available to the masses, and significantly behind their competition. Their wireless service is also on the hind te-t behind VZW & TMOB. CPE solutions is a joke & losing customers with their stellar India based support. T does get good revenue from their backbone services(carriers, video, specials, etc). T’s labor skill and pay on both sides of the fence is similar to TB3 along with the well-overcompensated CEO(keep in mind JS’s $25M annual earnings/140k employees = $178 per employee)
Strikes for both UAW & CWA could quickly & easily be detrimental. UAW did take one for the team back during the bailout so they are due some recompense, but they have to acknowledge the fact that assembly line work is extremely easy to replace & that temps are already being used. This “stand up strike” is BS. It serves as a media bragging point and vote of confidence for UAW leadership, knowing what would likely happen with an all out strike.
CWA is generally speaking in no position to flex either. Striking would be the d-mbest thing they could do. There’s nothing T would love more than for all of craft to walk out the door & never come back. Keep showing up and work without a contract. Any good gain is going to come at the expense of massive layoffs as the final nails are slowly being driven in the coffin of POTS. Best of luck to all!
I'll take my Telco wages over the big 3 prevailing wage. Thank You CWA!
For what? The new car lots are still empty.
UAW members sure ain't making at&t money, that's for sure. Thank You CWA, we owe you bigtime.
One problem for the UAW is they build sh-t cars that no one wants to buy. I sure as he-l won’t buy one. Who in their right mind would buy a Chevy, Ford, or Chrysler, when you can buy a Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai or Kia for the same money, and get a much better car. The Big 3, and their cr-ppy UAW Union did this to themselves.
I never understood why the union, CWA & IBEW, love the left and Biden so much. Democrats side with big tech and industry, including AT&T, over the unions.
Biden is bringing in illegals to replace the current American workers & will pay them 1/2, if that.
The unions have completely abandoned their union members.
They are salivating at the thought of laying off all their union & lower management & replace them with illegals who will be happy with minimum wage.
Just think of all the dues they'll collect.
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Since you seem to be out of the loop, line workers have been getting paid a measly 20-26 dollars an hour. This has been happening since the bailout of GM and Chrysler. Most of these employees still make this pay to this day. Not to mention, all 3 bringing in temps when people do end up quitting and only being paid 16-18 an hour with no benefits. Pre 2008, you could START working there at 28 an hour and moving up. Clearly negotiation tactics went over your head. You ask for more in the beginning, that way you get what you really wanted offered to you. The UAW knows they wont get 32 hour weeks with pay for 40. Its all about strategy. To the rest of you backing millionaires over your blue collar brothers, shame on you.
I think they should ask for health insurance for their pets again.
"What some of these top execs make, it would take assembly line workers nearly 15 years to make one week of their salary. The disparity in salary between executives and average workers is larger than it has ever been. They need to pay up! "
Not the solution, every blue collar worker going on strike and increasing inflation.
What is need is to abolish the federal reserve and let our government manage our money like the constitution says it should be. No more greedy bankers and financiers taking their cut of every financial transaction.
And no more open border, bringing in more people who will work for slave wages.
They are having problems selling cars from what I have read. This strike may save some of the auto companies. How thoughtful of the union to do this.
They can't even go on a real strike. UAW is using this weak “Stand Up Strike" strategy because their strike fund would be obliterated quickly and they would lose bargaining leverage. So they just use these stoopid pop-up strikes at targeted locations to create frustration and disruption. I'm glad they care so little about customer satisfaction. Never going to change. My only wish is that the big 3 lock these fools out and pull in a replacement workforce.
The UAW is also fighting hard to bring defined pension benefit plans back for all employees. That would be wonderful. Most of the younger generation of employees without a pension plan will be penniless in their golden years! Think about that!
Not a problem for me. I drive a Tesla Model X, proudly going into office 5 times a week and not worrying about high gas prices.
I will never buy an American car every again with such greed coming from UAW. Hope they enjoy the unemployment line. Talk about under skilled, assembly line workers.
The average American is not getting a 10% raise a year, so give me a break
Working 30 hours and getting paid for 40 ?
Please
Yeah those demands are pretty egregious. Work 32 paid for 40, extra PTO fine, 40% wow. I totally get wanting a significant pay raise, we all deserve that because these tiny 1-3% raises ain’t cutting it.
Egregious, allow us to define the word from the Oxford: Outstandingly bad; shocking.
Now bargain for a 10% raise and hope to get 5% or bargain for 40% and possibly get 25%.
What would you do?
Yeah those demands are pretty egregious. Work 32 paid for 40, extra PTO fine, 40% wow. I totally get wanting a significant pay raise, we all deserve that because these tiny 1-3% raises ain’t cutting it.
CEO's are a little nervous. Teamsters, one of the largest Unions in America got a good contract.
New car prices have gone up 30%-40% in the last 4 years. Same UAW contract has been in place all of that time. Kind of hard to blame the Unions for that isn't it? I know, you will anyway.
The CEO's and CFO's have taken advantage of the "pandemic" and "supply chain issues" to raise prices wherever they can. If you listen to quarterly earning reports from the CFO's of fortune 100 companies , they have told investors that the pandemic has been very good for profits.
In what universe do you think they are going to lower prices and reduce their profits at this point?
Bye Buy By Baby
I’ll support them by Byeing a Kia.
Reading and spelling is fundamental. You probably could afford a base model KIA RIO. That will show them.
Bye Toyota
Where is Toyota involved in this and if so, where do do you want them to go "BYE" to?
The union is sick and tired of CEO and their henchmen eating up all the profit, for performing little, to no work. They rightfully want some of that action.
They are concerned about the CEOs making $75m combined. They could take 100% of those CEO’s pay and it would only get each of the 145k UAW employees about $500 extra for the year. The overpaid CEO argument is laughable. Although I agree they get too much. The companies should let them walk. They can get monkeys to do most of that work. Our techs are far more skilled.
It 40% over FOUR YEARS. When you factor in inflation, cr-ppy wage increases over the last decade, and the ridiculous salaries of CEOs and execs, it's not all that crazy.
What some of these top execs make, it would take assembly line workers nearly 15 years to make one week of their salary. The disparity in salary between executives and average workers is larger than it has ever been. They need to pay up!
I see a lot of good little serfs who only complain when men and women who work for a living ask for their rightful share but don't make a peep when executives get paid outrageous sums. They have fallen prey to the big lie: executives are paid what they are worth. What a crock of sh-t. Just look at the clown factory at 208 S. Akard.
How can people be so silly as to believe the propaganda? You've been lied to for 50 years America.
I’ll support them by Byeing a Kia
JFC the union is dumm. It sickens me just reading some of ridiculous comments. UAW can KMA. If you were running your own business, would you pay these goons $40-50/hr for assembly line work with near full benefits and an absurd amount of PTO. Probably not, because you’d be “out of business” in no time at all.
Current CWA SE contract will expire next year, they need to ask for much larger raises than normal and add COLA back.
It’s called negotiations, If they would have asked for a measly 2-3% @ yr. like ATT workers get, they’d continue to go backwards. Super high inflation last 3 yrs., companies have all raised their prices but wages are minuscule in comparison unless you are in the elite class.
When I first heard this, I thought it was a BIG JOKE,
but what is even crazier is it’s REAL!
Who gets a 40% increase in pay ??? !!!
32 hour work week
(but want to get paid for a 40 hour week)
More PTO.
LOL!