Seriously though, unions set the pace for a lot of other industries. It's just that it got taken over by thugs, sorry to say. It was the union that put a stop to workers being forced to work over 40 hrs without o/t. They have done a lot of good over the yrs but now they are corrupt!
I am salaried.
MY company has AN ENTIRE YEARS revenue, in the bank, cash.
And I am an employee-owner.
No union.
It was the union that put a stop to workers being forced to work over 40 hrs without o/t. They have done a lot of good over the yrs but now they are corrupt!Wrong on the 40-hour week. (Right on corrupt.)
A standard 40hour week is a union creation that defies the historical reality of automotive production. The automotive business is both cyclical and seasonal. It was the New Deal that imposed 30, 35, 40-hour weeks upon the industry, which, in turn, created this idea of "over time," which never before existed. The industry tried and tried to explain to the morons of the "brain trust" that fewer hours in November plus extra hours in April added up to the same as even hours all year long.
Besides, auto factory workers regularly got extra pay for extra work, for that meant $$ for the factory. "Piece-work," which the New Deal outlawed, was an excellent moderator of work flow and wages, and it was the best way for smaller manufacturers to compete with the Big Three, which otherwise creamed the rest on scale and productivity. When FDR and the UAW imposed regularity on auto employment, they merely assured that there would be fewer automobile producers, and, thus, fewer overall workers.
Yes, unions have brought benefits to workers. But they've taken away more money from the workplace in general than they've given to those workers they represent.
Yup the UAW has become what they organized to prevent
Contract is up in 2007
I only have a little over 2 years left and I am laid off right now myself