Pinkerton On UAW: Not Just Wages—Work Rules

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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To the extent the MSM has been willing to report on the disadvantage under which the Big Three automakers operate compared to their non-union competitors, the focus has been on the huge wage differential.

On this evening's Fox News Watch, conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton highlighted another issue which has gone largely unreported in the liberal media: the onerous union work rules that add literally thousands of positions to the job rolls compared to those of the foreign transplants.

View video here.

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I know< I know....... but, you lie with doge , ya get fleas.

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I’m not suggesting that it’s a bad thing....except for the O/T.

The majority of union grievances originate within the trades. Management/engineering step in to do a job that they don’t want to have the bargaining unit perform.

Because it would involve too many of the trades guys, and take too much time, manufacturing engineering does the work and the grievances start flying. “Salaried employees doing bargaining unit work”. When the job never belonged to the bargaining unit, but they want it to, and are mad that management is keeping this work out of their hands.

This is why many places have canned the trades and contract that work to non-union outside firms.