RE: Your reply to #384 above:
“...Didn’t read the articcleeee.”
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Perhaps you should read the article. It had nothing to do with the missing Jet. It was about the UAW Strike.
1. More pay The automakers have offered wage increases ranging from 17.5 to 20 percent over a 4½-year contract. They also argue that full-time workers receive compensation beyond their hourly wages, including profit-sharing payments and other bonuses. Over the past four years, full-time workers have each received tens of thousands of dollars in profit-sharing, which temporary workers don’t get.
2. An end to tiered employment The union wants an end to the tiered employment system, which means newer workers work for lower pay and lesser benefits.
The union also wants the manufacturers to rely less on temporary workers, who are effectively in their own lowest tier. The companies say hiring temporary workers allows them to operate factories efficiently, respond to surges in consumer demand and give full-time employees more work flexibility.
3. Better employment benefits Labor organizers object to the amount of mandatory overtime workers have faced, saying employees are burned out from working 50 to 60 hours a week. The union is demanding that workers be paid for 40 hours a week but work for only 32 hours.
4. Worker protections in the electric vehicle era The union also wants the right to strike over proposed plant closures as Detroit transitions from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. Manufacturers have been shuttering old facilities that made internal combustion vehicles to shift workers and resources into EV production.
Things are not always as they appear.
The contract is \not\ negotiated on how many cars they can SELL, but how many they can MAKE in the term of the contract.
The manufacturers know that number already.
The union knows that number, too.
Kabuki Theater
My fault. I failed to direct link to GP.
The title refers to the missing plane story actually is about the stand down, over the plane. The thing is unbelievably on auto-pilot. 😳