New Hires in UAW Now Get Just $14 an hour
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From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers on 25 Jun 2010 13:50 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF7BKtnASmpRaPV00FqD2EjFij3wD9GDU8DO4 New hires in UAW no longer tops in manufacturing By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER (AP) 6 days ago DETROIT Every day at a General Motors plant near Lansing, Mich., workers drive hundreds of Buick Enclaves many with leather seats for seven and on-board video systems off the assembly line. Driving one home would be tough for the plant's newest workers, whose annual pay is less than the $35,000 it costs to buy even the cheapest Enclave. Newly hired members of the United Auto Workers at GM, Ford and Chrysler earn about $14 per hour, half what veterans make under their current contract. It's a far cry from the days when the union autoworker had one of the sweetest deals in American labor. And within the Enclave plant near Lansing, the disparity creates mixed emotions, including some resentment, among the 130 recent hires. "It's difficult to look across the line at someone getting paid more for doing the same job you're doing," said Steve Barnas, the plant's union bargaining chairman. For decades, the UAW tugged wages upward. In 1960, a UAW member made 16 percent more than the average American manufacturing worker. By 2006, the figure was 74 percent. Today, new hires in the UAW make about 20 percent less than the average. (snip)
From: Tom Yost on 25 Jun 2010 17:27 lil abner <@daisy.mae> wrote in news:246Vn.127$0A5.31(a)newsfe22.iad: > > Do you know what 14 an hour is? Try buying a new home on that or > providing for a family. > 14.00 an hour is no more than 1.50 an hour in 1970 or less. You do the > math on inflation/devaluation. > Yea but it's like $43,429.98 an hour in 3098.
From: Fred Gringioni on 25 Jun 2010 17:35 "lil abner" <@daisy.mae> wrote in message news:246Vn.127$0A5.31(a)newsfe22.iad... : Do you know what 14 an hour is? Try buying a new home on that or : providing for a family. : 14.00 an hour is no more than 1.50 an hour in 1970 or less. You do the : math on inflation/devaluation. : It is just wage slavery the reason the globalist worship Mexico and Chjina. An unskilled worker doesn't deserve any more than that. Let the market decide.
From: Brent on 25 Jun 2010 18:03 On 2010-06-25, lil abner <> wrote: > Do you know what 14 an hour is? Try buying a new home on that or > providing for a family. > 14.00 an hour is no more than 1.50 an hour in 1970 or less. You do the > math on inflation/devaluation. > It is just wage slavery the reason the globalist worship Mexico and Chjina. It's 30 grand a year before taxes. Even with the inflation thanks to the bankers and the privately owned federal reserve it's still damn good money for an 18 year old with no job experience. Your real gripe should be with the union and the union scale that prevents someone who say has been doing essentially the same sort of work building some other product who gets laid off and now has gotten a job in automotive. He now gets to start at $14. The union scale that prevents people who are productive from earning more money. It's just a matter of putting in the years. Also the idea that someone who assembles a 35k car or 70k car or a 150k car deserves a salary to buy it is absurd. The concept of buying the car built came from the model T ford, a basic car, not some luxury car or even mid level car, but the basic car. get a load of this part of TFA: "Bobbi Marsh, 32, was hired at a GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, two years ago, making $14 per hour. With raises she now makes $16, but that's still less than half the wage of her father, a machinist at the Lordstown plant. Her father's job helped pay for her college and family vacations. She is afraid she will not be able to provide the same for her 10-year-old son." For crying out loud... she has two years experience at god knows what and she deserves the same as skilled machinist with 30+ years experience? Why? Because she has a teaching degree she isn't using?
From: Jim Yanik on 25 Jun 2010 20:08
lil abner <@daisy.mae> wrote in news:246Vn.127$0A5.31(a)newsfe22.iad: > Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers wrote: >> >> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF7BKtnASmpRaPV00FqD >> 2EjFij3wD9GDU8DO4 >> >> New hires in UAW no longer tops in manufacturing >> By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER (AP) ? 6 days ago >> >> DETROIT ? Every day at a General Motors plant near Lansing, Mich., >> workers drive hundreds of Buick Enclaves ? many with leather seats >> for seven and on-board video systems ? off the assembly line. >> >> Driving one home would be tough for the plant's newest workers, whose >> annual pay is less than the $35,000 it costs to buy even the cheapest >> Enclave. Newly hired members of the United Auto Workers at GM, Ford >> and Chrysler earn about $14 per hour, half what veterans make under >> their current contract. >> >> It's a far cry from the days when the union autoworker had one of the >> sweetest deals in American labor. And within the Enclave plant near >> Lansing, the disparity creates mixed emotions, including some >> resentment, among the 130 recent hires. >> >> "It's difficult to look across the line at someone getting paid more >> for doing the same job you're doing," said Steve Barnas, the plant's >> union bargaining chairman. >> >> For decades, the UAW tugged wages upward. In 1960, a UAW member made >> 16 percent more than the average American manufacturing worker. By >> 2006, the figure was 74 percent. Today, new hires in the UAW make >> about 20 percent less than the average. >> >> (snip) > Do you know what 14 an hour is? Try buying a new home on that or > providing for a family. > 14.00 an hour is no more than 1.50 an hour in 1970 or less. You do the > math on inflation/devaluation. > It is just wage slavery the reason the globalist worship Mexico and > Chjina. companies don't pay salaries based on what it takes to provide for a family or buy a house,they pay based on what the JOB is worth. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com |