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UAW Strike Ends with Higher Wages, Better Benefits for Auto Workers
Breitbart ^ | 10/30/2023 | JOHN BINDER

Posted on 10/30/2023 1:08:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The United Auto Workers (UAW) will end its strike against the Big Three as the labor union has reportedly reached a tentative agreement with General Motors (GM). The UAW had, in the last few days, reached similar deals with Ford and Stellantis.

On Monday morning, reports circulated that the UAW had reached a deal with GM. According to details available, the deal mimics many components of the union’s deal with Ford, where base wages will increase 25 percent through April 2028.

Likewise, the deal reinstates benefits that GM’s auto workers have not enjoyed since the Great Recession, such as cost-of-living allowances, a three-year wage progression, and an elimination of wage tiers among union workers.

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KEYWORDS: automotive; benefits; donatefreerepublic; strike; uaw; wages
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To: Kevin in California

We went ‘shopping’ this weekend for a new truck/SUV.

60k to 100k+.

And then the dealers had $3000 mark-ups on top of that!...............


21 posted on 10/30/2023 1:22:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Kevin in California
This particular Ford dealership in Idaho was asking $152K for a Raptor truck. I kid you not . .

And the pick up will never do a minute doing what a pick up was designed for such as carrying a load of gravel, some lumber, a ladder or going down an unpaved road.

Try to buy a stripped down one for real use and it is almost impossible any more. These are $150,000 "hot wheels".

22 posted on 10/30/2023 1:24:56 PM PDT by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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To: Red Badger

Unless it’s rusting out just keep repairing the one you got


23 posted on 10/30/2023 1:25:01 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

It’s a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500, 100k+ miles..............


24 posted on 10/30/2023 1:27:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Easy solution is to not buy a new vehicle. The problem will solve itself.


25 posted on 10/30/2023 1:27:29 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At least its going to American workers.


26 posted on 10/30/2023 1:27:58 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: reed13k

> Surprised to see this, as I figured the car companies demand is down enough that they could afford a longer strike. <

That’s part of the problem. Management usually prefers to give in, and kick the can down the road a bit more.

It’s also worth noting that many states make it illegal to permanently fire striking workers. So the playing field is no longer level. That’s never a good thing.


27 posted on 10/30/2023 1:29:05 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What are they gonna do now, go deer hunting?


28 posted on 10/30/2023 1:34:55 PM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“That closure is a positive for the carmakers. But it portends difficult times ahead for the Detroit Three with the new pacts expected to push the companies’ labor costs higher than initially expected when talks began.

“We won things nobody thought was possible,” UAW President Shawn Fain said Wednesday.

Ford executives are already talking about the need to offset the higher expenses in its latest deal. The automaker has said the UAW contract would add $850 to $900 per vehicle in additional costs. “

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/detroit-is-paying-up-to-end-the-uaw-strike-now-carmakers-will-live-with-the-costs-df1d88d7?mod=djemalertNEWS


Soon, only the very well-off will be able to afford a vehicle. Just as has been planned by the WEF.

Remember the scenes from the Mad Max movies where the vehicles were made from pieces and parts of various old cars? Yeah, that’s what we will have to do if we want to drive. In your prepping plans make sure to include a friendship with a shade-tree or retired army mechanic who is used to rebuilding gas powered engines. Then you will only have to worry about stealing the various needed parts and some gas.


29 posted on 10/30/2023 1:35:00 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What? They got a 25% increase and COLAS but NOT the 32 hour work week for the same pay they were demanding? Outrageous!


30 posted on 10/30/2023 1:35:14 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right - now sell cars to make up for it, cars nobody wants.


31 posted on 10/30/2023 1:39:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~Definition Of A Business Jet: A Mailing Tube For Executives ~)
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32 posted on 10/30/2023 1:40:55 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CFW

‘56 Chevys are still running in Havana


33 posted on 10/30/2023 1:43:25 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ChicagoConservative27

About 15 years ago my aunt came to visit me. On the way home from the airport, in typical blunt Serbian fashion, she asked me how much money I made. I told her.

“Ahh!” she sneered, “I couldn’t live on that.”

I was a mid-career structural test engineer at an aerospace company. She was in the UAW at Chrysler, working a tool crib.


34 posted on 10/30/2023 1:55:04 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Kevin in California

Was it any of these?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guy+visiting+various+dealerships+and+their+ridiculous+prices+on+vehicles.


35 posted on 10/30/2023 1:56:26 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Doesn’t matter to me. I quit buying inferior American cars long time ago. I still have a 3/4 ton GM truck but it was built before their trucks got as bad as their cars. I don’t use it much so won’t need to replace it


36 posted on 10/30/2023 1:58:22 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: AU72

They got rid of every hard fought cost cutting measure the car makers got over last years. They even brought back COLA which causes an upward price spiral. They won a short term victory but now for survival the car makers are going to move operations


37 posted on 10/30/2023 2:02:05 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: CFW

Lol. I love the pepper idea that they will just steal whatever they want. As if everybody else who has valuable things isn’t armed and aware also.


38 posted on 10/30/2023 2:02:48 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: AU72

They got rid of every hard fought cost cutting measure the car makers got over last years. They even brought back COLA which causes an upward price spiral. They won a short term victory but now for survival the car makers are going to move operations


39 posted on 10/30/2023 2:02:56 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, but what does that do to the cost of a modest car for the six pack American family?


40 posted on 10/30/2023 2:07:10 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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