Temporary part-time worker at Toledo Jeep plant describes what it means to be a TPT

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2023
  • “I drive a 2009 Jeep and I’m no where close to being able to afford one of the products that I build, at all.”
    Abigail Garcia has been working at Jeep for 4 years. She says she has to maintain a second job due to relatively low pay and unpredictable hours at the plant.
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Комментарии • 75

  • @Cha-y412
    @Cha-y412 8 месяцев назад +14

    Ill bet she voted Democratic !

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      You must be a billionaire 😅

  • @rubenvalencia7959
    @rubenvalencia7959 8 месяцев назад +5

    Sounds like it's time to look for another job.

  • @cman3948
    @cman3948 8 месяцев назад

    At one assembly plant in MI I worked in 2022 instead of hiring additional TPT workers they let some of the temps VOLUNTARILY work 90-100+ hours per week. YES PER WEEK!!!

    • @AlwaysAwesome001
      @AlwaysAwesome001 7 месяцев назад +1

      That's normal white collar
      working hours. Are you crying? 🤔

  • @ken2win671
    @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

    Mack plant it’s laid off over half of there tpts a week ago. Now the ppl that’s laid off don’t know if they need to get a new job or wait to be called back to work

  • @amandac715
    @amandac715 8 месяцев назад +1

    Solidarity from an AFSCME sister!

  • @Uawlocal1248
    @Uawlocal1248 9 месяцев назад +6

    Please jobs elsewhere are not the big 3 … in healthcare or profit sharing… I was a temp for 3 1/2 years … if you’re not in this situation please hold the negative comments especially if you don’t have knowledge of what’s really goin on its make you look very ignorant on the topic

    • @LWRC
      @LWRC 8 месяцев назад

      So you do admit that even with what the big 3 are paying, you are getting better than market wages compared to what ever else may be available. So what's the problem??!!! You folks want to compare your income to the CEOs and yet, you can't do complex math so what's there to complain about? Besides, all these demands stilll does not address the root cause of the hyper inflation that is eating everyone alive! Did you know potato head decimated the fossil fuel industry on day one in office caused this disaster for ALL of us??!!! How does it feel now? Still going to vote Democratic in 2024? If you continue this kind of stupidity, I pray the big 3 move all manufacturing out of the country and all you sandbaggers will be out on the streets looking for fast food jobs! And those jobs are being replaced by automation so good luck with that plan!!!

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@LWRCm0r0n

  • @user-xj3oj3xg1p
    @user-xj3oj3xg1p 7 месяцев назад

    They flaunt billions in profits, but certain companies won’t give temps one penny in profit sharing. I knew 50+ jobs on assembly line to fill in for vacations/leaves & still never got ONE PENNY in any type of Christmas, Quality, or Profit sharing bonus for 2 years.

  • @itsallminor6133
    @itsallminor6133 8 месяцев назад +1

    How is a temp even on strike?

    • @populisttrope9385
      @populisttrope9385 8 месяцев назад

      The system is rigged. The company is allowed to hire Temps and keep them Temps forever. This is one of things the union is demanding to be changed.

    • @johnwolf1113
      @johnwolf1113 8 месяцев назад

      They are still part of the union. The contract with GM after 30 days you become a UAW member however the question is how is she a temp after 4 1/2 years. (Its a rhetorical question.... its cause the companies abuse "temps"

    • @itsallminor6133
      @itsallminor6133 8 месяцев назад

      @@johnwolf1113 to offset union costs. I stopped being union long ago. Way better now.

  • @populisttrope9385
    @populisttrope9385 8 месяцев назад +7

    This hard working woman deserves to be paid fairly. SOLIDARITY FROM A CWA BROTHER

  • @tanyaray2593
    @tanyaray2593 8 месяцев назад +9

    If you exceed a certain number of hours in a single week, the company should be required to move you to FT with benefits. Maybe that would put a stop to the abuse in the number of hours a PARTtime person works. The more I hear about the Big 3, the harder I want to fight!

  • @sleepytimeshecomes
    @sleepytimeshecomes 23 дня назад

    with hair like that she'll always be temporal

  • @LeAnn610
    @LeAnn610 8 месяцев назад +3

    Buy a Jeep and discover it is either Dodge or a Fiat. 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @LeAnn610
      @LeAnn610 8 месяцев назад +3

      If you are not happy with your pay, it’s easy, go somewhere else.

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@LeAnn610m0r0n

  • @LWRC
    @LWRC 8 месяцев назад +2

    Wait - homegirl here is a part time employee at the Stellantis plant that makes Jeeps....she's only been there for 4-1/2 years so she couldn't have been the one who allowed a foreign object to be embedded into the paint on my Jeep's passenger door!!! My Jeep is 7 years old that I ordered from the factory! The paint was still wet and this foreign object was blown on to the paint and was embedded into the paint and remained there until I removed it!!! Such high quality work and QC didn't even catch it!!!

  • @charlietarr
    @charlietarr 6 месяцев назад

    The union has no trouble exploiting an underclass of unequal coworkers who work with no benefits.

    • @dennistyler9852
      @dennistyler9852 Месяц назад

      I’m sure it’s not the union but the Company

  • @kennykrempa7100
    @kennykrempa7100 9 месяцев назад +12

    Why doesn’t she just find somewhere else to work ? Unless you’re in a contract you are free to leave whenever .

    • @Uawlocal1248
      @Uawlocal1248 9 месяцев назад +5

      They keep telling you to hold on … we’re working on it then if you do get full time you’ll get better healthcare and start receiving bonuses and profit sharing

    • @cogdog69
      @cogdog69 8 месяцев назад +3

      its the rust belt, ...there are no jobs left

    • @doomman700
      @doomman700 8 месяцев назад +7

      Are you offering her a better job?

    • @wunger1047
      @wunger1047 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes find a new job .

    • @buddyfett1341
      @buddyfett1341 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Uawlocal1248then it's the union and company that is lying to temps. Best thing for temps being strung along is to quit and go somewhere else after 6 months. If you're not hired by then, stop wasting your time.

  • @jamesmace47
    @jamesmace47 8 месяцев назад +1

    In nature anything that has bright colors on it is usually considered toxic and dangerous

  • @danb5595
    @danb5595 8 месяцев назад +3

    They hate working there but won’t be able to find anything else? Most of these people lucky to be there

    • @wunger1047
      @wunger1047 8 месяцев назад +2

      Agree if your not happy at your job find a new one .

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      Shutup you two I/diots

    • @JavierNYC423
      @JavierNYC423 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@wunger1047when did she say she wasn’t happy ? She clearly stated she just wants better pay and full time benefits .

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      Hater!

    • @irinab7524
      @irinab7524 7 месяцев назад

      @@JavierNYC423that’s what makes you unhappy isn’t it? If better pay and terms needed - get better job!

  • @LeAnn610
    @LeAnn610 8 месяцев назад +8

    That is why this person is not a regular employee, she has a bad attitude toward the company. 🤪

    • @IngenuousSoprano
      @IngenuousSoprano 8 месяцев назад +1

      That's not usually the case. My fiancé was a TPT at Ford for 3 years before being hired on full time. My godfather is a Ukrainian (former Soviet) acrobat and I'm not sure which of two of them is the hardest worker or complains the least.
      She's describing legitimate problems. Older workers have voted for worse and worse contracts, higher ups are corrupt, the unions have been just as bad for going along with their nonsense.
      I can't speak for Jeep, but even Henry Ford wanted his workers to be able to afford cars that they built (still a big purchase, but they could afford to do it). It's not having a bad attitude about the company you work for, it's that you have awful people in charge of companies that are "too big to fail."

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      Why are you praying on ppl down fall 🤔

  • @pfrenchtrenches5942
    @pfrenchtrenches5942 9 месяцев назад +3

    There's no other way to pit America will use you if they can

  • @hollyhood419
    @hollyhood419 9 месяцев назад +3

    That hair dye cost more than her hourly

    • @ironknightgaming5706
      @ironknightgaming5706 8 месяцев назад

      *weekly*

    • @LWRC
      @LWRC 8 месяцев назад

      How do you know it was a dye? Maybe it was some toxic chemicals she ingested??!!!

  • @dhdhdhdbbthomoline8860
    @dhdhdhdbbthomoline8860 8 месяцев назад

    If you don’t like it you have the freedom to find another job.

  • @thomasjbraun1
    @thomasjbraun1 8 месяцев назад +3

    Toyota

  • @cosment00
    @cosment00 9 месяцев назад +12

    These comments are amazing. People are so programmed to defend corporate greed. Solidarity ✊

    • @markmiller7426
      @markmiller7426 8 месяцев назад

      It all starts with who your union endorses they backed the wrong horse.

  • @leo5mani
    @leo5mani 9 месяцев назад +5

    I was a TPT for 3yrs and not able to receive profit sharing and other bonuses; and my paycheck says Ford. This is NOT right. Deuteronomy 30:3-13 GOD will restore everything you lost. 🙏🏻

    • @cs.8821
      @cs.8821 8 месяцев назад

      U wasted so much time. You should obtain a Class A CDL and drive a truck local home everyday as a LTL driver. Stop wasting your time at these plants people.

  • @rfisch1975
    @rfisch1975 8 месяцев назад +2

    If you dont like your job. Go find a different one. Eazy Pazy

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      M0r0n

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      You can tell you kiss a lot of a$$ where you work. The apple don’t fall to far from the tree

  • @stevenfetzer4911
    @stevenfetzer4911 8 месяцев назад

    Shut them down and move to Mexico.

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      Why are you praying on ppl down fall 🤔

  • @jordash9992
    @jordash9992 8 месяцев назад +1

    Her hair says it all. . Blue for democrat 😂

  • @TAYLORFAN50
    @TAYLORFAN50 8 месяцев назад +5

    Union slackers demanding a 40% pay raise and a 4 day work week. Fire them and hire non-union immigrants who will thankfully accept the job.

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      Shutup

    • @abeninan4017
      @abeninan4017 8 месяцев назад

      Your suggestions can happen only in right to work states.

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      Why are you praying on ppl down fall 🤔

  • @oldschool7803
    @oldschool7803 9 месяцев назад +5

    She needs to keep her mouth shut they told you not to speak to the media

    • @RussellStovetop386
      @RussellStovetop386 8 месяцев назад +1

      Looks like a party 😂 everyone gets one cookie and milk then it's nap time

    • @DemonDog444
      @DemonDog444 8 месяцев назад

      Old school, keep crying

    • @buddyfett1341
      @buddyfett1341 8 месяцев назад

      Nothing says "Our cause is just" like telling your own people who want to defend themselves to "shut up!"
      Unions are a cancer.

    • @nonamewillbegiven1217
      @nonamewillbegiven1217 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@buddyfett1341troll

    • @ken2win671
      @ken2win671 8 месяцев назад

      Why are you mad that she wants a better living? Why are you praying on her down fall like that 🤔