Will UAW Strike?

[ultrarunner]

Thank you Mr Obvious!

Always glad to contribute…

PSPS on scale is something not many outside California have experienced and few Californians for that matter prior to recent events.

My Honda 5000 powered refrigeration for 4 homes and my home all the time then 95 year old neighbor kept it PSPS ready with extra rotated fuel and my assortment of 10 ga extension cords at the ready…

Of course the generator was chained down with locks because generator theft became a big problem.

 

[5030]

Stellantis strikers are not all that happy with the tentative contract according to the Toledo Blade and in reality, they didn't get much of a raise with the rate of inflation. I also see Fain has aspirations of unionizing Toyota and Honda as well as Tesla plants down south. Will see how that plays. I don't believe it will play at all, but maybe, who knows.

I do know the price of vehicles will rise once again, average of 900 bucks and finally, Fords has curtailed it's production of the Lightning pickup and is recalling ALL of them for various issues. Not that they are selling anyway. They aren't.

 

[milkman636]

My BIL, the Fords exec, drives a Toyota Matrix of all things. Of course he has to park at the back of the parking lot per Fords rules.

My understanding is that above a certain management level they get provided a ford vehicle every 3-6 months depending on rank. They are also required to personally purchase one every so often too, at a deep discount. I would think that executives would even have a better deal on ford products than managers do?

 

[5030]

My BIL opted out of that perk. Having said that, his wife takes advantage of it and drives a new ICE every 6 months.

 

[gstrom99]

I heard that part of "the deal" that was accepted, is that the tier pay system was removed. New employees, doing "the same job" get the same pay as a 25 year veteran employee. How is this a good thing, and for how long?

 

[lilranch2001]

I pulled my L-4 this morning, so I am ICE’g my back!

 

[ruffdog]

I heard that part of "the deal" that was accepted, is that the tier pay system was removed. New employees, doing "the same job" get the same pay as a 25 year veteran employee. How is this a good thing, and for how long?

No. The tier system allowed the company to have employees that never get up to what other's get paid. New employees still will still have to work up to full pay, just like before 2008.

 

[5030]

Not ratified by the locals yet...

 

[Torvy]

The tier system allowed the company to have employees that never get up to what other's get paid.

You got the wrong facts there, dog. They want to pay newbies exactly the same as vets from day 1. This only helps newbies and the union bosses.

"Under the UAW’s 2019 contracts, which expired Friday, a new hire can eventually work up to the pay level of a veteran employee, but reaching parity takes eight years. (The automakers’ latest proposals would shorten that period to four years.)"

Source:

Striking autoworkers want to end a system that pays different wages for the same job

Weeks after UPS drivers won an end to a widely criticized compensation system, Detroit autoworkers want an overhaul of their own.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ruffdog]

You got the wrong facts there, dog. They want to pay newbies exactly the same as vets from day 1. This only helps newbies and the union bosses.

"Under the UAW’s 2019 contracts, which expired Friday, a new hire can eventually work up to the pay level of a veteran employee, but reaching parity takes eight years. (The automakers’ latest proposals would shorten that period to four years.)"

Source:

Striking autoworkers want to end a system that pays different wages for the same job

Weeks after UPS drivers won an end to a widely criticized compensation system, Detroit autoworkers want an overhaul of their own.

www.nbcnews.com

No...they want everyone doing a job to be in the same "tier".

"And on a given Big Three assembly line, a temp worker making $18 an hour could be performing the same tasks alongside an entry-level hire earning $22 an hour or a longtime employee paid $32 an hour — all largely depending on which labor contract was in force when each one was hired."

Newbies will NOT be paid full rate from day one as you say.