Four-day workweek, 46% raise: UAW makes
'audacious' demands ahead of possible
strike against Big 3 automakers
ABC News,
by
Max Zahn
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/5/2023 6:23:42 PM
A four-day workweek at full-time pay, a 46% wage increase and a share of company profits are among the demands of the union representing approximately 150,000 workers at the Big 3 U.S. automakers -- General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The United Auto Workers, or UAW, has vowed to launch a strike on Sept. 14 if the union and the automakers fail to reach an agreement by then.
Even UAW President Shawn Fain last month described the workers' set of demands as "audacious." He has defended the ambitious agenda in a series of public statements, citing billions in profits enjoyed by the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 9/5/2023 6:24:53 PM (No. 1550083)
Expect the big 3 to move more jobs overseas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/5/2023 6:29:46 PM (No. 1550084)
UAW demanding to be unemployed. Be careful what you ask for. You may get it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
volksford 9/5/2023 6:32:36 PM (No. 1550086)
I guess all that 2006 tax payer money has been spent...attention UAW , Detroit is dead you and the Democrats help kill it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DougTN 9/5/2023 6:35:39 PM (No. 1550089)
Unions are on the ropes. Competition and innovation have been around awhile now, you’d think they’d be self aware.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/5/2023 6:42:18 PM (No. 1550091)
Geee...IF they had held on to the 63% share they were given of GM during the bailout, and invested their health/Retirement funds IN to the other Big Three, they would be majority shareholders in ALL of them already, would have seats on ALL three boards, would be negotiating with....themselves..
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
AnotherYank 9/5/2023 6:47:11 PM (No. 1550096)
This is a good time for GM and Ford to file for bankruptcy.
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More factories moving to southern right-to-work states (or entirely out of the country), more robots (and non-union robot repair/maintenance jobs), more outsourced parts, and fewer union jobs. These factories actually pay comparable wages without the union extortion. Pretty soon the only union guys making money will be the union bosses using gummint handouts, the workers will all be let go.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
marlon 9/5/2023 6:54:55 PM (No. 1550102)
Let's face it between interest rates, car prices and the insane push for electric cars nobody is going to be buying them anyway.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/5/2023 6:56:07 PM (No. 1550103)
LOL. s/o
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/5/2023 7:09:36 PM (No. 1550107)
Hoo, boy.... this may finally be when the UAW jumps the shark. Most of these people have been voting for Democrats for years; they’re totally unaware that Dems have caused 75% of their problems, and their own laziness and greed the other 25%. They don’t realize that there are other carmakers with plants in the U.S. turning out better cars than the Big 3 make. I haven’t bought a car made in the U.S. by union labor in 25 years, and I never will again.
If the government hadn’t bailed out GM in 2008, they would have gone bankrupt. They would have been bought up by someone else, and started making better, cheaper cars without the United Auto Workers anywhere near their facilities. Ford and Stellantis would have followed GM down the non-union road. It should have happened then, and I hope it happens now. It’s time for the UAW to go the way of the dodo bird.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 9/5/2023 7:19:08 PM (No. 1550109)
They didn't need the following when they had Trump in the WH, he picked up the phone and pushed the companies to stay.
FTA:
In addition to other reforms, the UAW has sought assurance that workers will keep getting paid if their manufacturing plant gets closed.
On top of that, the union has sought the right to strike in the event of a plant closure, giving such workers a source of leverage as the company winds down production.
"The Big 3 want the power to take our jobs and the products we build and move them to other countries where they can more easily exploit workers," Fain said. "That results in massive job loss that guts local economies and rips apart families as workers uproot themselves from their lives and homes to travel across the country to get another job."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/5/2023 7:48:48 PM (No. 1550121)
No one's buying their crappy overpriced SUVs anyway. Apparently they don't make actual cars in the US anymore.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/5/2023 8:00:13 PM (No. 1550122)
These industrialist dinosaurs are bound for civilization's tar pits. They're going Green OB (out of business). Very few people want to own or drive what they're building. Impractical and too dangerous. The Resident just loves unions of all descriptions and wants every American to be be forced to join one as a condition of employment. He's already an insensate fossil.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 9/5/2023 8:02:08 PM (No. 1550123)
Robots
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
downnout 9/5/2023 8:19:52 PM (No. 1550133)
Go all in for a share of the profits. With the demands they’re making, the auto makers will be lucky to stay in business at all.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/5/2023 8:29:05 PM (No. 1550135)
If they want a share of profits they should share in the losses too.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
avital2 9/5/2023 8:49:35 PM (No. 1550143)
shades of unions and the airlines. automakers are deep in the hole with EV's. this should be interesting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/5/2023 8:54:56 PM (No. 1550148)
The Big 3 have storage lots full of cars right now, are pushing retailers to offer huge discounts and are not selling anything. They can strike for a year and nobody will notice except the stockholders.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/5/2023 8:59:38 PM (No. 1550151)
The automakers are already making little or no money. They are going broke with unsold EV's, and high interest rates. If the unions get their way, there will be no company left to work at.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 9/5/2023 10:04:10 PM (No. 1550184)
How to entirely end auto production in the USA BY UNION WORKERS.
Dangerous megalomaniacal losers in charge.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Sully 9/5/2023 10:49:37 PM (No. 1550198)
The carpenters union the Pipe fitters Union the Electrical Workers. These are trade unions that build America.
But the UAW and NEA . These are parasites that kill the host.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ruthless 9/6/2023 1:11:53 AM (No. 1550227)
Unions had their purpose -- about 75 years ago!! They now are nothing more than a money laundering partnership between the "Leaders" and the Democrats in DC. The poor suckers in the middle just keep handing over their "dues" every month to finance their eventual extinction.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ruthless 9/6/2023 1:22:49 AM (No. 1550229)
Have a relative who retired from the Dodge City truck complex on Mound in Detroit. He said that a lot of the workers spent the majority of their time sleeping in the huge cardboard boxes, running numbers for their "bruh," or arranging sexual hookups in one of the many huge parking areas at $20 a pop. Getting caught was nothing more than a slight inconvenience, as the Union would always step in. Maybe it's all coming to a head at last!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/6/2023 3:03:19 AM (No. 1550239)
Unions, the bane of America. Greedy, greedy, greedy.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 9/6/2023 3:16:56 AM (No. 1550247)
Death by suicide and too stupid to realize it.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
snapper451 9/6/2023 7:37:47 AM (No. 1550292)
Last gasp with the most corrupt, union loving president in history. On fair balance, perhaps the rate for the "big guy" is now 23%? After all, Biden's gotta Biden because as we were told "...nobody F's with a Biden..."
All these years as a prostitute to union members has to secure a big final payoff.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/6/2023 7:49:16 AM (No. 1550302)
Buy a Japanese car. You won't miss a beat during this union/democrat corruption and you will enjoy a much better car or truck.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
swarfer 9/6/2023 8:09:24 AM (No. 1550311)
I guess the UAW realizes its workers are going to need more income to buy EVs and more time off to wait around for them to charge. Look to the Biden administration to step in and force a favorable UAW settlement on the Big Three or get sanctioned.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/6/2023 8:46:04 AM (No. 1550340)
The CEO's brought a lot of this on with their outlandish compensation. If the companies are doing that well that they can pay their executives so much, then labor wants a piece of the pie. I can’t blame them. The top management makes so much money that they put the excess over what they need to live into foundations. The smart move for management would be to cut their own salaries to show good faith. Never happen!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/6/2023 8:59:59 AM (No. 1550351)
The rats are desperate. These monkeys would be nothing without "white collar" Engineering and Operations people, who NEVER get included in these "negotiations" for increased wages. It didn't take the big three any time at all to pilfer the retirement plans of the white collar employees during the 2008 "great" recession that ushered in "Obamanomics" and "Cash for Clunkers."
Robots are cheaper in the long run.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
moebellini3 9/6/2023 9:08:47 AM (No. 1550357)
Typical union. They will destroy anything they touch. They bankrupted Yellow Freight, they caused UPS stock prices to go from over 180 dollars a share down to 163 and now they will destroy the auto industry in this country. About 20,000 union workers lost their jobs at Yellow Freight and they'll never get another job like they had. Who knows what happens with their pensions or 401 K's. But not to worry, their union leaders will go home to lobster and filet while they go home to rice and beans. These totally brainwashed workers never get it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
janjan 9/6/2023 9:37:54 AM (No. 1550385)
Big talkers trying to impress their members. Ask the union leaders about their own compensation. They will settle for far less.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
red1066 9/6/2023 9:45:26 AM (No. 1550390)
They could do what the company my son works for has done. Work four ten-hour days and have Fridays off. People can barely afford cars now. Add in a 46% pay increase and only the autoworkers could afford cars.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/6/2023 11:41:22 AM (No. 1550474)
The autoworkers could go on strike with their demands for a 46% pay increase, shorter work week, and whatever else they want. They can picket in front of the idled auto factories and get media attention...for a few days. Then they will get about as much sympathy from the American public as the Hollywood writers and actors who are also striking with crazy demands. All that the writers have done is shut down the entertainment industry and put a lot of other people out of work. The auto worker will do the same with their strike. They will put suppliers out of work. Their greed may cripple entire towns and the trickle down effects will hurt a lot of people. Of course, the Union leaders will still get their money.
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I wonder if free pedicures and back rubs are part of their demands.