Posted on 09/20/2023 5:27:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
General Motors has temporarily laid off most of the approximately 2,000 unionized workers at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas as a result of the ongoing UAW strikes.
The move, which GM had warned was coming last week, is the largest ripple effect so far from the United Auto Workers' historic strike against all three Detroit automakers as the union demands a new contract that offers substantially better wages and benefits.
But automakers have warned a strike threatens to make them uncompetitive against rivals, especially as the companies spend billions of dollars to transition to electric vehicles.
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Your daughter is a him?
Good luck.. hope you can find another good used 2021
O no. Union grandmas Christmas parade is about to start. She’s gonna have to compete with monthly government grandma this Christmas.
They better get this sorted out before the republicans war on grandmas Christmas kills us all.
I worked at a major defense contractor for over 35 years.
We had at least 3 unions. Security & Fire, Clerical and Mfg.
The latter two unions mentioned went on strike several times while I worked there. I was salaried management level and I recall packing a few days of clothes/toiletries/etc. in a bag to be locked in at the plant and work in the mfg. area.
The strikers had to walk picket lines and were paid from their union’s strike fund. They got $25 a week!
The income they lost for a short strike was never made up by the small wage increases they agreed to accept.
Greedy union bosses constantly screw over their members.
I know this is private but I named Reagan because that is the best way to beat these unions but nobody wants to take charge anymore.
With the possible exception of Tesla.
Indeed it’s more about greed pay up to $130.00 (some areas)an hour and a 4 day work week.
Biden if for it it gives the chance to hire illegals for a 3 day work at 3 shifts a week and welfare.
Every illegal in the country drives up healthcare costs for everyone.
“downstream workers hit hardest.”
Yes and that is part of the calculation of the striker’s leaders.
Their goal is to get a contract and they don’t care about other workers. They want the company and the public to care.
Living in times where leadership in Washington is careless about inflation and debt gives unions an excuse to be reckless.
GM willingly and happily signed on to the UAW Master Agreement over and over and continues to be based in a forced unionism state. GM deserves everything they get and it isn’t anyone else’s problem to solve.
The companies will hire aliens, the UAW will drop the members who have been layed off before supporting them, sign up the aliens, and pocket the difference. This is what UNITE Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) did to NY workers in 1990.
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