Posted on 09/14/2023 6:20:48 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” anchor Jake Tapper asked Ford CEO Jim Farley why, after CEOs got large raises, they can’t “share the profits” with the workers to avoid a strike.
Tapper said, “I just interviewed Shawn, the head of the UAW, the other day, and I wanted to pass on a question based on something he’d told me the other day, which is over the last four years, each of the big three car manufacturer CEOs in addition to their multi-million dollar salaries, they received on average a 40% pay increase. So why are the auto workers wanting a raise beyond what’s been asked, why is that so offensive compared to the 40% raises they have given themselves?
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He should have turned around and ask Tapper if he’d do the same w CNN employees……
He also should have asked Tapper, “What’s your contract, Jake, and why do they pay you to keep the piddly audience you have; how much does the guy behind the camera over there make?”
Hey Jake, when you by your own auto making company then you can pay the workers anything you want. Okay?
How much is Tappout paid?
Most of it is greed...In 2023, greed reins supreme.
And how is ol' Shawn, Jake? Everybody's on a first name basis.
How come the cameraman doesn’t get huge raises like you Jake?
More than the peasants. Guaranteed.
That’s actually good question. An absolute lack of leadership. And now they are going to find out the consequences of poor leadership. All of them.
People here only concentrating on the hypocrisy... 🙄 The actual substance of the question is important too in case Noone noticed. Why on Earth aren’t they improving the salaries of their workers- especially given inflation being so bad. I don’t care if it’s CNN or NewsMax asking the question because it’s awful that we just accept it and never say anything. This is exactly the type of thing that America First was about 😉
Ford Motor Company has lost billions going woke with EV’s. In a sane world, most of the senior management would have been fired already.
Why on Earth aren’t they improving the salaries of their workers- especially given inflation
Maybe because they’re wasting their profits on EV Ford 150s? The wage growth would come out of increased productivity, not feeding inflation.
Ford execs unbelievably stupid for sucking up to Bidenzombies by building electric cars. They’re losing a bundle and deserve paycuts or firing.
Tapper is paid $13 million annually.
This question tells me that azho Tapper isn’t very serious about his job. He’s a smartass “gotcha” punk.
Stockholders bought in.
Workers get paid to work. ...sometimes in December there’s a bonus from profits. If I own a garden I am not going to give all the tomatoes away to the pickers. Are these people nuts?
In different jobs I have had—I have had to join 5 different unions in my younger days. HATE THEM
I remember a UNION strike in the Grocery Cashiers group.
Union was demanding a 50 cents an hour raise-—late 60’s.
IN THE ACTUAL MEETING—WE VOTED DOWN THE STRIKE—3-1
UNION reps put us on strike anyway-—THEY LIED.
I also remember that we ended up with 5 CENTS an hour raise and a 3 year contract.
WE LOST SO MUCH $$$$$$$ while on strike, that it was mathematically IMPOSSIBLE to recover that loss with 5 cents an hour for 3 more years into the future.
The massive losses Ford is dealing with on the new trucks-—a friend of mine has had a deposit on one for over a year. -—cannot last much longer.
I have been self-employed since about 1980.
In 1988, I was competing in events all over the western part of the country & was OUT of my home base county for 61 days.
At the end of the year, I calculated: MY gross income divided by my hourly rate & further calculated the hours I had spent AVERAGE for every week I was at home and working for clients.
I AVERAGED 78 HOURS A WEEK doing bookkeeping...
at $18/hour & paying Social Security payments of 15.3% of my gross when I filed my 1040. NO PAID HOLIDAYS/SICK DAYS/VACATIONS/HEALTH INSURANCE/PENSION
These jerks already make VERY FOOD WAGES and benefits-—
AND THEY ARE DEMANDING TOO MUCH.
None of them will EVER sign the FRONT OF A PAYCHECK-—only the back side.
When automation came in, union workers could get 90% of their prior paycheck if they sat in the UNION HALL & ‘were available’ for any work emergency to step in.
That alone is a travesty.
NO SYMPATHIES here
I dunno Jake. Why can’t CNN staffers share your salary?
Most Freepers, like most mainstream GOPers, hate the working class. It is so obvious.
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