well. Part of that is supply line, not all is automaker greed, theres the banks investing in metal stockpiles and raising the costs for everyone while taking ridiculous profits for *litterally just not selling metal*. Thats literally the definition of lassiez faire capitalism, capital (money) can transfer ownership of anything under any conditions.. But ya. 40 hours of human labor is whats required to make a midrange car. even at metal prices what they are, anything above 10k-16k is just profits, and a lot of 10-16k is profits for the metal market.
@@crosslink1493Shawn Fain speaks eloquently about that and rather than vilifying poor Mexican workers, like the old school lefty he is, he stands with those exploited workers and vilifies the owners. Go Shawn!
@AnonymousAnarchist2 uhhh... as an engineer for one of the big 3, I would like to be paid too, please. And there's a really bad habit I'm seeing of putting newer and more complex technology into larger and larger vehicles that inflates engineering hours
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a reminder -- social security benefits & Medicare -- *YOU, THE WORKER, PAID FOR IT. IT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS TO RELY ON FOR YOUR RETIREMENT.* 💯💯 *They are NOT "entitlement" programs!* 💯
@@intuitionz1198it's not an entitlement because you're not "entitled" if you expect it Unlike a CEO who feels entitled to millions in yearly compensation, something they are very unreasonable for thinking they are owed
@@vanessaziobro1118 after they hire the cheap electrician they then get to hire the qualified electrician to come fix what the cheap worker did incorrectly.
@@Factoryfarley25since you vote democrat because your union tells you too. Your union helped pass NAFTA that put 100s of millions of Americans out of a job. But hey they taught you to change a light bulb
Still recall a reporter asking a striking John Deere worker how long he could hold out against such a huge, powerful, company. He replied, "One day longer than they can."
Many of the UAW members near us in SE Michigan live paycheck to paycheck and are deep in debt. Unless the strike fund can cover most of the bills for the striking members they will not be able to last more than a couple months. The running joke here is the best time to buy a used boat, snowmobile, jetski, camper or Harley is when the UAW goes on strike.
Detroit - The UAW International Board Tuesday announced the influential unions’ endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden for President of the United States. Hey instead of changing the United States and Venezuela why don’t you pack up and move
Agreed, no Oligarch does. Fines only exist to punish the working class. They're part of the cost of business for the ruling class. The fact that these companies were even bailed out to begin with our tax dollars is egregious unto itself. These companies have no right to exist and yet they still make everyone's lives miserable with overworked, underpaid workers and overpriced cars that have planned obsolescence by breaking down more easily and requiring subscriptions for basic functions
Exactly.....They get a fee of a couple million when they make 11 billion, that's like fining them a cup of coffee. Imo we need to start sending people to prison.
@@niccilefevre ABSOLUTELY! The law needs teeth for these people. It protects but does not punish them while it does not protect but actively proescute us
I was lucky, I hired in with GM Hydramatic div in 1976. Back then once you got your 90 days in you pretty much had a job for life. Best of luck my UAW brothers and sisters. You deserve a better contract than the ones you've had to endure for too long.
They plan to automate US facilities, probably they might move to Alabama for example or s Southern State and the GM plant in the South will be the most sophisticated GM Assembly Plant in the US and the world with all the workers are robots and no human being on the assembly plant in site; for a reason they look towards Southern states for production because they got weak union laws.
I am an IBEW Electrician (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), I stand in solidarity with our UAW Brothers and Sisters! Solidarity forever ✊️💯💪⚡️!
Electrician is a high skilled job. Getting some nuts and bolts from a bin and bolting the same part on all day long can be taught to an 18 yo in one day. $40 an hour, work 4 and get paid for 5 for unskilled labor is a deal breaker. These are the same people that played a big hand in putting a man in the White House that wants people putting fries in a box to make $15 an hour. They priced themselves right out of middle class through political affiliation.
@CM-ve1bz I would love to see you do my job then, I guess you could call me an unskilled worker even though I've been doing it 11 years. Here's the thing if I take a vacation day. I have to fight for it. Because across 2000 employees at the assembly plant, I work at nobody can literally do my job. So I guess that makes me an unskilled worker. Regardless of the fact that I would like to go to school and actually do more. I just literally don't have the time. We work 5 to 6 days a week, 40 plus hours a week. Our job is back breaking. I live with literal daily pain. I'm not even that old and I'm already showing signs of carpal tunnel and tendonitis because of my job. And yet I can't afford to go it get it fixed because I can't afford to not work. That is a problem, it's not okay for any worker. Regardless if they have a college education or not, it doesn't fucking matter because guess what most people can't afford to make it to college these days. And the fact that you don't understand that shows me that you don't understand what it's like to struggle.
@@nix-on-the-rise I was a aircraft structure mechanic. Try bucking solid rivets for 25 years and you will know hand pain. I was required to do any structural work on any aircraft they made off of blueprints and they expected me to do it without questions. That’s skilled labor. When someone is doing the exact same thing over and over all day every day, an 18 year old can learn it in a week, that’s unskilled labor.
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whiners. Don’t like it? Don’t work there. They accepted the job, now they don’t like it? Too bad. Living paycheck to paycheck? YOUR fault. And no, you are not entitled to what you think is your ‘fair share’. You work there, you do not own the place nor do you have any risk involved like the owners do.
The only lesson is unemployment. Vehicles will cost more than they do now. No one will buy them. Lines will constantly shutdown. Plants will idle. Lay-offs will ensue. No one wins this. Proffitt will always win.
I hope both the UAW and the automakers go out of business. The auto workers have been overpaid since the 50s. Today, perhaps they are finding what it's like to live in the real world with the rest of us. No sympathy here, fine, you won the lottery by getting hired in the auto industry, most of the rest of us didn't have the opportunity. Auto workers are overpaid and overcompensated. Welcome to the real world. Cars and trucks are HORRIBLY overpriced, let the auto makers fail. To hell with them.
All companies, union or not, need to take better care of their employees. We are the ones that keep them in business. The pandemic has long been over along with supply issues, but yet prices have not gone down. We are being milked out of every dime and no wage increases to cover cost of living. People can't go on like this anymore. This is just ridiculous. They are starving their own people.
Yea but they know what they're doing. These COLA workers will get out of the workforce and Companies are gonna engage new workers in a world where there's a completely made up shortage of workers. So the wheel turns. The New World order in action: out the middle class, in the lower class and alone and happy rich and super rich class. Back to the 18th savage capitalism era.
Agreed, but the rich scum doesn't care about working class, they make 40 million a year saleries, 40 fukin million, no one is worth gathering much, bastards
with 333 MILLION serfs for korp amerika to exploit for poverty wages? PLEASE? they lock the unions out, get scabs and after one year the company can do away with unions.. SI hAbla mexicano, bienvenidos a el estados unidos de mesico. ocho 8 dollares por un hora de trabajo duro
The unfortunate thing is that the executives have so much power and wealth that they can just sit and wait and not come to the table for a very, very long time.
There is some hope. A lot of wealth is tied up in stocks which are tied to quarterly profits. When those go down so does stock value and that has a compounding effect on the wealthy. Liquid assets can be taxed, so the rich tend to avoid them where they can. This means they pay their expenses with a much smaller pool of available money than one might think. We just need to let that dry up.
I'm a auto shop owner. I own, and work by myself. I stand with you Auto workers. Even being an owner is a pay check to pay check living. Good luck workers. I hope you can get most, if not all
I am amazed that cost of living adjustments ever existed in any industry - we need them everywhere, and if anyone can do it, it will be unions! Solidarity!
Right. You see that worker talking about working 7 days a week and can't even afford to get his teeth fixed. It's disgusting what this country is turning in to.
Butbutbut no one will work if they have access to medical and psychological care. Just look at me. Suicidal while resisting get the urge to go after those who made me like this, clearly being forced into another dead end retail job is what I need.
@@poisonduckee country we keep trying to lead by example but you dont want to hear it republicans are the root of all this madness we talk about unity coming together but republicans are the ones who dont care about anyone who are the fearmongering that transforms bad to worst for people just by the accident of letting them in their that bad
Hope they can get what they are fighting for. Back when I worked at GM they were in the beginning stages of implementing the tier system. I left GM in 2006, I was making $28.50 with included about a $1.05 per hour cola. I worked for them about 8 years at 3 different locations.
Same. Non-union salaried definitely receive fairly competitive pay and benefits, but I can feel that as a whole we are also getting awfully sick of their aimless and unpredictable headcount reductions all the while taking on the work from those let go. It’s a fucked up business they’re running these days.
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is why all mfg has moved to RIGHT TO WORK (for nothing) NON UNION States in the south... lots and lots and lots of cheap / docile labour to exploit for $13/hr and NO benefits. anyone over 22? need NOT APPLY.
im very excited for this, even as an anti-car pro-urban infrastructure follower. i wonder how this will overlap with things like strongtowns and city planning as a whole if more power is given to the workers.
I love that you brought up Strong Towns. I'm totally for unions and I'm also totally for fiscally responsible land-use policies. Unions will give workers higher wages, and better land-use policies will give workers more affordable housing and the option to live without a car payment. Both will put more money in worker's pockets.
If we can build or reconfigure cities to be less car dependent it will make big strides in facing issues such as global warming, lower cost of living, better land use, overall convenience and quality of life.
My people are in this comment thread. We have a long way to go to come to anything close to the Netherlands when it comes to walkability but I'm hoping that transit oriented development will happen when the passenger train boom that's happening now reaches mid sized cities.
I love the continuing rise of unions and worker's strikes. Build the American left - the actual left, not status quo democrats, and secure a future for working people in america. ✊✊🚩️🚩️
The left? You mean the anti-capitalist left that's intent on DESTROYING the ACTUAL middle class? The union thug bosses lobbying for laws that make it almost impossible to compete eith those corporations you want extorted and bullied? Oh, yeah...they're for 'the workers' all right...
@deeznutz32108 ??? Sounds a lot like either the pre-soviet bolsheviks or the pre-nazi brownshirts. And neither one of them benefitted after destroying the country they were hoping they could take over. Just saying...
Wow! This is absolutely shocking to me. Two of my uncles worked at these facilities. They worked 7 days a week their entire lives Because they were addicted to the money they were making. They worked way past retirement age. I am completely disgusted with how they are treating their workers today. This has got to stop. Fully behind you guys and hope that you win.
I grew up in the rust belt and remember graduating from high school back in the mid-1970's. Many jobs are controlled by the unions, plumbers, electrical, factory etc...and if you did not have a relative in the union you had to wait years to get hired or were told to forget it and move on.
@davidwell686 Yes, i'm starting to realize how powerful they are on the east part of this country. Honestly, they don't seem to help much. I lived in los angeles for several years. It's a completely different story with the unions out there . They actually do something for the workers. Unions either way, though, are just dirty. This country has gone completely backward from all the progress it made for the people. The people running are government Is pass in present Are responsible for this. People have no idea though what's coming in a few short years. The youth of this nation will be completely blindsided. They will not grow up with the freedoms and security that we have been blessed with in the past.
Is this the year of the strikes?! I am so curious as to how this year will be remembered. I support them all ❤️ I hope those greedy bastards pay their people AND THEIR TAXES.
People forget that part of those wonderful 50s/60s involved taxing the rich at 70-90% and 65% of workers had pensions. Really, the Boomers have fallen down on this by supporting the Moneychangers
It'll be remembered as the year automation took over. The longer the strike lasts the more time they have to install new automated equipment. Pandemics and strikes won't impact production
@@chumps7974 Screw it; tell the engineers that all calculations have to be done by hand or using a slide ruler. And, and, let's build batteries by hand. What could possibly go wrong
it's called automation. EVs require only 1/3 the amount of workers traditional ICE vehicles need. Workers produce everything until their jobs/roles gets deported overseas.
@@publicutilityyea. however the actual decisions CEO's make can and usually are compleatly procedual. No intellegence needed, there was even a country that replaced thier top execs with nothing but a formula and it worked better.... Until the CIA went in and un-alived the people who scared American CEO's.
I know that it might not be feasible but looking into the striking food workers up here in Canada would be great. This labour movement is happening all over North America
Hopefully Auto Workers here in Canada who are with Unifor (the same union for the Metro workers) will get a peace of the strike pie too. I will be placing my strike vote this Sunday. Solidarity!!!
Mexico is winning on this one for North America to corporation Mexico is a woman with big boobs and butt, that is all to say it all Mexico is the better attractive woman for corporations in North America. To say it all is cheaper.
Wrong, Unions vote to screw new hires and instead pad senior employees pensions. New hires don't get the same health or retirement benefits as those who were hired before them.
@@yvonneplant9434 Sad but true, corporations favor technology more than people, that way they could keep production inside the country of origin of the certain country the company is based and for example Ford won't send it's production for a certain product to Mexico and then decide to modernize a US assembly plant all automated and turn it to be a state of the art facility with no need for assembly workers; because sophisticated robots do all the work.
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love that people are waking up to this fact. The political parties both work for the corporations that abuse us all. Real change is made by us, not politicians
Toyota ( in Kentucky not far from Louisville ford plant) isn't unionised and they work hard to squash unionisation. I hope that the ford workers can get their demands met. I stand in solidarity! ✊🏼
People who have never worked in a factory don't understand the wear and tear on your body. I use to work for New Center Stamping in Detroit. Had to take pain pills daily to survive. Let's not talk about how dangerous these plants are. Workers deserve more money. No doubt and I hope they get it.
Good luck from a salaried, degreed engineer who never had COLA, a pension or health care after retirement. My raises over the last 8 years is about 3%. The only way I can improve my salary is to quit and go somewhere else. I get no overtime and consistently put in over 50 hours per week. If it gets ugly, at least I have my education in searching for a job. Hope it works out well for everyone.
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Shut it down. Completely disregarding how the industry kills public transportation and destoys the environment, $80-90k for a truck that cost $40k a decade ago is bs.
Even temp workers can organize there is the Temporary Workers Union Alliance Project and their activity is increasing. I'm working to organize my temp agency but it's hard because they only put a couple of us together at a time.
Tesla would love having the legacy car brands going on strike. The legacy brands are already risking going bankrupt trying to make the change to ev. Tesla makes high margin, is not union and is building robots to replace the workers. A strike would just increase their lead. I don't think the union workers realize they could be striking their way out of a job.
@@pin65371 If that's the response to a union striking that's when you [redacted]. Also people said the same thing about AI replacing workers on the WGA strike, so color me skeptical. Especially with how Musk has been handling his recent business endeavors.
Solidarity with UAW members and all striking workers nationwide fighting for fair pay and working conditions. Glad to hear President Biden will be joining the picket line.
Building union power is so so important for so many reasons. It helps the working class immediately, and on a longer timescale it promotes solidarity which has also been shown to decrease the types of bigotry we've been seeing rising, as workers understand they have more in common with each other than with their bosses, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc
Fully support the UAW. Those 2009 conditions are ridiculous in today's economy. My dad worked for Ford for 35 years, retired with pension and healthcare for life. All UAW employees should get that. ✊🏾 power to the workers.
When I retired from General Motors in 2006 a line worker was making $28 an hour, plus medical, plus pension, plus thirty days of paid vacation, plus paid holidays, including two weeks paid Christmas holidays. I can't believe the workers are making less today than we were nearly twenty years ago. For anyone who thinks anyone can do the work, well there is something to that, BUT nearly half the workers had a body brace of some sort ... neck brace, back brace, wrist brace, etc.. The two tier system has to end. We were considered permanent and full pay at 90 days.
RAILROAD WORKERS have a tired pay system and no medical when they retire. THANK YOU BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR NOT LETTING THEM STRIKE... YOU SCREWED THEM
They got their sick leave thanks to the democrats and Bidens Cabinet is loaded with pro labor people most importantly the NLRB chief that replaced Trump's staunch anti worker NLRB chief , there's a reason why unions are making a comeback along with wages finally rising and it sure isn't because of the republiklan.
because that's just propaganda invented by the rich to make you think you already have it better than most people and to not try to fight for anything better. when you look at actual data, the US is not the greatest in any category.
@CELONDELON351 Yea, those bastards, how could they only pay their people more than 73% the rest of the population, give them pensions, health insurance, paid holidays, 401Ks, etc and expect them to live like that. It's a good thing they keep the doors locked so none of the employees are able to excape.
They do understand Americans are NOT paying $70-$100 k for vehicle’s right ? The dealerships are flooded with new inventory just sitting soon there wont be any jobs for production because no one can afford the price tag .
If you agree, then as a shareholder it's time to withdraw. These Corporation's only agenda is to maximize profits at the expense of the workers. It's been 10+ years, and they haven't returned what was promised. When that bottom line of theirs is held in jeopardy or a free-fall, then and only then do they start to make any effort in correcting or treating their workers with respect and dignity.
Were you a shareholder when they went bankrupt last time😆. It's coming again. The only thing holding GM up is $60k trucks. Once that falls, it's all over.
It is honestly SCANDALOUS that these corporations can now decide to declare a 'critical status' and force Workers to work 12h/day 7 days a week!! THAT ALONE should be enough grounds to STRIKE IMMEDIATELY!! 😤😤😤😤 But of course, the current contract allows this... WHICH IS WHY THIS STRIKE IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL!! 😤😤😤😤
That critical status was agreed to by Union members. Just like the 2 tier pay system. That 100 page book of agreed upon dribble is just that. Keep adding garbage on to make that 120 pages of dribble. People working non union jobs can tell their employer to stuff it if asked to work 7 days a week or overtime. 😉
Are these people insane? A 46% pay increase? Get real. No one is going to take them seriously after that insane request..there are a million other people lined up to take their jobs
So well said by Shawn Fain: "While Workers have been breaking their back, the Big 3 has been breaking the bank." Give these Workers a FAIR SHARE OF THE PROFITS AND STOP THE CORPORATE GREED!!!! 😤😤😤😤 In solidarity with all Workers ❤️
Don't you just loveeee how the first person they turned to were their workers. The ones who got them their profits in the first place, and didn't turn instead to the execs at the top who were obviously grossly overpaid and incompetent.
Hey dummy. Look at how many automotive plants in Detroit and all over america went to Mexico and other countries. It's the politicians in the unions not the company
They voted for Biden and now want to whine about things he has created. Like always, the lazy keep voting for free stuff until there is nothing they can afford. Venezuela here we come.
we'll see how good it is 3 months from now on strike when the mortgage companies start foreclosing on workers' homes with no paycheck in sight. the strike pay won't cover everything.
@@roadmaster720 There's no guarantee that that will happen, and honestly I would be kinda surprised if there wasn't some legislation to protect workers against that possibility. And by the way... if you ask me, the mortgage companies (and the banks) can go to hell! :)
The auto workers should focus on build better quality vehicles there's a reason why they don't get the raises. Toyota and Honda pride themselves on build reliable vehicles.
Local 1102 member here, these guys got my support. Ford treated their prototype car drivers like they were disposable and trash, and I was one of these prototype drivers for the S650, Escape, Corsair, Explorer, and Nautilus. McDonald’s workers had more pay than we did. They can pretty much shove whatever they say up their butt if they ain’t keeping their promise. Keep fighting the good fight.
I'm not an autoworker, just a consumer who has to deal with the end result when I go in to buy a vehicle or have it serviced. That being said the prices have gone so high that I'm not interested in buying anything right now, and I'm taking my cars to an independent shop where the bill is typically 30%-40% less than a dealer's service department charges. FWIW: I consider the whole manufacturer through dealership 'chain' as part of the company, even though the dealers are 'independent' franchisees they still sell a specific brand and have that brands logo on their buildings.
Bro the reason you can't afford a vehicle is because 90% of the nations productivity has gone to the 1% not you. This strike is all about fighting for a middle class so you could afford a new car. Unions used to be the trend setter, the countries wages were buoyed by union contracts, they set the standards
@@richcherwalk6349 Don't forget to tell the rest of the story. If you UAW gets the 40%-46% pay increase, it will put the workers back above the 90th percentile of workers in the US. So there is the 1% that has more wealth than the lower 90% of people and then there is the 9 % in-between those two that have more wealth than BOTH of the other two groups combined.
@@BOBDOBALINA-1234 The idea and what happened in history is workers across the country start banding together to form more unions, eventually the huge wage discrepancy will return to a healthier more reasonable level like it was in the 50's 60', 70's and even 80's, when workers were cherished and honored, instead of this scam where capitalholders earn billions in thier sleep through usury. Jesus and the old testament warned of the evils of usury but today society shows contempt for their workers and worships lazy billionaires who collect usury interest payments, and today the middle class is no gone. Honor real work!
If you want to fight the auto companies, petition zoning to allow housing close to work. Petition for effective public transportation. True story; car, tire, and oil companies bought the old trolley systems that let people go from suburbs to downtown easy and cheap, so they could dismantle them forcing everyone to get a car. Zoning laws were created to make sure you could not live near work and food stores. Where do you burn most of your gas? What if you could live near work and have a little corner grocery where you could get food, all within walking or bicycle distance? Fight back!
Great point! How much of the demands for workers to return to the office is based upon the greed of Big Oil and the legacy automakers to ensure that workers must commute to the office? What with the internet and the cheap and powerful computers of today, there is only minimal need to go to the office every day! GREED ON THE PART OF THE OIL COMPANIES, LEGACY automakers and the tire companies. FUCK ALL OF THEM!
One of the vehicles they make cost $15-20k to build. 10% of that cost is the labor. The price of the vehicle after being created can vary from $50k to $80k.
The big 3 companies will be bankrupt again within the next 10 years. Maybe not all three, but 1 or two of them will be done. We will see if the government bails them out again.
I tell you what, I'm not sure how the UAW works but the local whatever that was working on a power project we worked in IL was an absolutely nightmare to work with. If you touched a trashcan or unloaded some chains or anything just simple they would start crying and complaining and down right scream and want to fight you! They expected money for full days work if they showed up for 1 hour. Absolutely absurd and just out of touch with reality. They have the protection from the unions so they get lazy and entitled!! Its the only way to see this and what we experienced. It was horrible and no wonder there was such a cost to build such a plant. Was much more than it should have ever been. Then again that is why many companies leave this country. Unions had a place in this country in the early 1900's, but now people have a choice. Called supply and demand. You don't have enough workers doing what you do then the wages go up. You have to many people for the same job, it goes down. TESLA Bot can handle all these tasks in a factory. Almost everyone of them if not everyone and it will happen. Then what is the union going to do?
Joe says you're to work for what you are presently getting and be happy with it, or he's got thousands of migrants who will work for half your cost and be grateful...
Please explain where the money to the higher wages should come from while they’re transitioning to EV’s and losing ~50% on each car. This is a clear path toward bankruptcy
There not losing ~50% there cutting down the cost it comes from manufacturing a whole engine and almost selling it for the same price or sometimes even more its mostly about cooperations squeezing every penny of the amount of excess part they don’t have to create for a EV
Corporations have been focused on their stock prices over everything else fo decades now, and this is the result. CEOs and their boards get huge bonuses and stock shares and don't spread those profits to employees that are actually doing work or engaging customers. I work retail, and I remember the first time we had a meeting and our GM was so proud that our store had made a profit of a million dollars the previous year. All that I could think about was that if this store profitted a million, why am I makeing $9/hr?
No wonder why my ford Explorer is the least reliable car I have ever purchased (and it's my first new car ever), maybe if working conditions were better things would not be so broken.
The problem is the top brass. They are getting RECORD COMPENSATION in millions of dollars. What I see happening is the auto workers do deserve more pay and the car companies hopefully will give it to them. But they will raise the price of cars to accommodate, $45-$60,000 for a car????? That is not more than the first house I bought 25 years ago. Instead of taking it away the record compensation to the top brass. IT DOES NOT TRICKLE DOWN!!!!!!! The workers deserve a better contract but they need to reign in the top jerks pay to fix it.
Quit saying the problem is wages haven't kept up with inflation, the problem is executive salaries have increased 500 or 600 percent since the 1960's while everyone else's wages have been stagnant for 50 years. Greed of the top 1% is the problem.
For some reason we think the stock market is an indicator of how healthy or economy is. The stock market is an indicator of how much wealth businesses extract from workers.
Here's an idea; why doesn't the union buy a manufacturing facility and make vehicles. Those should be some of the highest quality and least expensive vehicles in the market right.. Wow you people are something else.
I'd say a lot of the blame falls on the government. Excessive regulations on requirements with all this safety crap, cameras, electrification, ect.. Let the manufacturering industry evolve naturally, the consumers should set the pace on what they want, not a bunch of bird brained bureaucrats. Environmentalists and climate alarmists, vastly exaggerating the climate problem are also part of the problem these days. They should also reopen grey market imports, the 25 year restriction only protect the dealers and domestic manufacturers, and allows them to jack up prices with no competition. 5-7 years should be fine, give them a generational edge and thats it. I'm a truck driver and the trucking industry is in bad shape right now as well. The whole labor industry is about on the verge of revolution.
The big 3 automakers are going bankrupt. Electric cars are going to destroy their margins and profitable business units. It doesn't matter what these contracts say, my advice to these workers is to get out of this industry asap.
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My parents were both UAW 595. They retired in 07. Union was great and their retiree health benefits plan for medical is second to none. The unions keep the company in line (assuming the union reps aren't compromised). I myself am IBT 877. Go get em!
Stay strong brothers and sisters of the UAW! As a 31+ year member of CWA, I walked the picket line many times fighting corporate greed. Don’t put up with their bullshit!
Why dont they put stipulations on the bonuses the upper management get even when they show making massive losses! That should never happen. You make good money as a company, everyone gets a piece of that. Its like the bankers, go under and the CEO gets $10 million dollar bonus and everyone is ok with that? LOL That is what I would have in my strikes too.
The CWA is weak and in cahoots with the companies not the workers! At least it is here in my state. I’ve heard CWA is stronger depending on where you live.
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So people are only making $16/hr making cars, and car companies are now charging $40K for a "mid range" car?!
well. Part of that is supply line, not all is automaker greed, theres the banks investing in metal stockpiles and raising the costs for everyone while taking ridiculous profits for *litterally just not selling metal*. Thats literally the definition of lassiez faire capitalism, capital (money) can transfer ownership of anything under any conditions..
But ya.
40 hours of human labor is whats required to make a midrange car. even at metal prices what they are, anything above 10k-16k is just profits, and a lot of 10-16k is profits for the metal market.
And don't forget a lot of those cars are made in Mexico and other foreign countries where folks make lower wages/benefits.
Profits are stolen wages from workers and privatized taxes on consumers.
@@crosslink1493Shawn Fain speaks eloquently about that and rather than vilifying poor Mexican workers, like the old school lefty he is, he stands with those exploited workers and vilifies the owners. Go Shawn!
@AnonymousAnarchist2 uhhh... as an engineer for one of the big 3, I would like to be paid too, please. And there's a really bad habit I'm seeing of putting newer and more complex technology into larger and larger vehicles that inflates engineering hours
I am not an auto worker, but I am a UAW member. I could not be more proud to be. Solidarity ✊🏾. A rising tide raises all ships
are you also in higher Ed?
Man, can you imagine if the US didn't make solidarity striking illegal?
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see the bigger issue is no fair trade with china and Mexico and foreign trade, the politicians have sold us down the river on trade!!
I'm for union amd workers rights but I also know that this is how production jobs go to mexico
Just a reminder -- social security benefits & Medicare -- *YOU, THE WORKER, PAID FOR IT. IT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS TO RELY ON FOR YOUR RETIREMENT.* 💯💯
*They are NOT "entitlement" programs!* 💯
EXACTLY! I’ve been paying in since my first paycheck like everyone else. This is NOT ‘entitlement’ money! We paid for this out of every paycheck!
actually it is and entitlement. we're entitled to it because we paid for it. 😁
Yeah, love how they raised the age to 67 now. I won't even live that long.
@@intuitionz1198it's not an entitlement because you're not "entitled" if you expect it
Unlike a CEO who feels entitled to millions in yearly compensation, something they are very unreasonable for thinking they are owed
@@kruger2035I know what you mean.
This can't be easy for anyone. I was once fired for trying to help form a union. My prayers are withall of you!
As an IBEW member I support these union brothers and sisters for fighting for fair contracts to support there families! In solidarity!
Amen
But they won’t support you and would hire the cheapest electrician they could find.
@@vanessaziobro1118 after they hire the cheap electrician they then get to hire the qualified electrician to come fix what the cheap worker did incorrectly.
@@Factoryfarley25since you vote democrat because your union tells you too. Your union helped pass NAFTA that put 100s of millions of Americans out of a job. But hey they taught you to change a light bulb
Ibew is the only time in my life, my pay went down while working. I'd rather let my skills and talent do my negotiating.... which works much better.
Still recall a reporter asking a striking John Deere worker how long he could hold out against such a huge, powerful, company.
He replied, "One day longer than they can."
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I love that
Till bills are due…
Many of the UAW members near us in SE Michigan live paycheck to paycheck and are deep in debt. Unless the strike fund can cover most of the bills for the striking members they will not be able to last more than a couple months. The running joke here is the best time to buy a used boat, snowmobile, jetski, camper or Harley is when the UAW goes on strike.
Rich corporations should be treated like spoiled kids. Don't enable them, encourage them, or give them any ideas.
And we should put the CEOs in time-out while we're at it
Detroit - The UAW International Board Tuesday announced the influential unions’ endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden for President of the United States.
Hey instead of changing the United States and Venezuela why don’t you pack up and move
But if you ain't rich, you ain't sheet. That's just how it is. Acceptance is key.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat"just lay down and accept the kicks to your head, even if they kill you"
No
they should be treated like serial rapists on parole. they should be watched like a hawk and severely punished when they break the rules.
The Corporations can and WILL Violate the Law. They don't face REAL Consequences.
Agreed, no Oligarch does. Fines only exist to punish the working class. They're part of the cost of business for the ruling class.
The fact that these companies were even bailed out to begin with our tax dollars is egregious unto itself. These companies have no right to exist and yet they still make everyone's lives miserable with overworked, underpaid workers and overpriced cars that have planned obsolescence by breaking down more easily and requiring subscriptions for basic functions
$10 fine coming your way 😡
why we need joy silk
Exactly.....They get a fee of a couple million when they make 11 billion, that's like fining them a cup of coffee. Imo we need to start sending people to prison.
@@niccilefevre ABSOLUTELY! The law needs teeth for these people. It protects but does not punish them while it does not protect but actively proescute us
As a UPS Driver I approve this Message!!💪Stay Strong 💪
Congratulations on your win too brother 💪🏻Union Strong
I was lucky, I hired in with GM Hydramatic div in 1976. Back then once you got your 90 days in you pretty much had a job for life. Best of luck my UAW brothers and sisters. You deserve a better contract than the ones you've had to endure for too long.
They plan to automate US facilities, probably they might move to Alabama for example or s Southern State and the GM plant in the South will be the most sophisticated GM Assembly Plant in the US and the world with all the workers are robots and no human being on the assembly plant in site; for a reason they look towards Southern states for production because they got weak union laws.
If the PENSION is not brought back, two tier still exist
@@javersowens2035 I never thought if it like that but you’re right.
@@javersowens2035 Ask the Airline pilots if they still get a pension.
@@user-wh1nr9rr1h no I understand, but do some pilots have a pension and others don't, if so that's two tier
I am an IBEW Electrician (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), I stand in solidarity with our UAW Brothers and Sisters!
Solidarity forever ✊️💯💪⚡️!
I too, retired now. A good part of my career was spent working at vehicle plants. I believe that the only way is to look for the union label.
SOLIDARITY WITH ALL OF YOU!
Electrician is a high skilled job. Getting some nuts and bolts from a bin and bolting the same part on all day long can be taught to an 18 yo in one day.
$40 an hour, work 4 and get paid for 5 for unskilled labor is a deal breaker.
These are the same people that played a big hand in putting a man in the White House that wants people putting fries in a box to make $15 an hour.
They priced themselves right out of middle class through political affiliation.
@CM-ve1bz I would love to see you do my job then, I guess you could call me an unskilled worker even though I've been doing it 11 years. Here's the thing if I take a vacation day. I have to fight for it. Because across 2000 employees at the assembly plant, I work at nobody can literally do my job. So I guess that makes me an unskilled worker. Regardless of the fact that I would like to go to school and actually do more. I just literally don't have the time. We work 5 to 6 days a week, 40 plus hours a week. Our job is back breaking. I live with literal daily pain. I'm not even that old and I'm already showing signs of carpal tunnel and tendonitis because of my job. And yet I can't afford to go it get it fixed because I can't afford to not work. That is a problem, it's not okay for any worker. Regardless if they have a college education or not, it doesn't fucking matter because guess what most people can't afford to make it to college these days. And the fact that you don't understand that shows me that you don't understand what it's like to struggle.
@@nix-on-the-rise
I was a aircraft structure mechanic.
Try bucking solid rivets for 25 years and you will know hand pain.
I was required to do any structural work on any aircraft they made off of blueprints and they expected me to do it without questions. That’s skilled labor.
When someone is doing the exact same thing over and over all day every day, an 18 year old can learn it in a week, that’s unskilled labor.
Bailed out by the people...
To screw the people...
STRIKE FOR WHAT IS YOURS,A LIVING WAGE
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Crybaby goons
NGO'S ARE LOADING BUSES RIGHT NOW TO FILL THE VACANT POSITIONS,....per J.B....
Solidarity with the workers
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THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whiners. Don’t like it? Don’t work there. They accepted the job, now they don’t like it? Too bad. Living paycheck to paycheck? YOUR fault. And no, you are not entitled to what you think is your ‘fair share’. You work there, you do not own the place nor do you have any risk involved like the owners do.
UAW, unions against work
With the way the automakers haves priced vehicles the last 5 years , I hope the UAW teaches them a lesson.
The only lesson is unemployment. Vehicles will cost more than they do now. No one will buy them. Lines will constantly shutdown. Plants will idle. Lay-offs will ensue. No one wins this. Proffitt will always win.
I hope both the UAW and the automakers go out of business. The auto workers have been overpaid since the 50s. Today, perhaps they are finding what it's like to live in the real world with the rest of us. No sympathy here, fine, you won the lottery by getting hired in the auto industry, most of the rest of us didn't have the opportunity.
Auto workers are overpaid and overcompensated. Welcome to the real world.
Cars and trucks are HORRIBLY overpriced, let the auto makers fail. To hell with them.
Time for a positive change for hard working American families! I stand with the UAW✊️
Amen
Want a positive change for hard working American families? Stop voting lying leftard democrat.
All companies, union or not, need to take better care of their employees. We are the ones that keep them in business. The pandemic has long been over along with supply issues, but yet prices have not gone down. We are being milked out of every dime and no wage increases to cover cost of living. People can't go on like this anymore. This is just ridiculous. They are starving their own people.
Yea but they know what they're doing. These COLA workers will get out of the workforce and Companies are gonna engage new workers in a world where there's a completely made up shortage of workers. So the wheel turns. The New World order in action: out the middle class, in the lower class and alone and happy rich and super rich class. Back to the 18th savage capitalism era.
Agreed, but the rich scum doesn't care about working class, they make 40 million a year saleries, 40 fukin million, no one is worth gathering much, bastards
They ain't gonna do it on their own you don't ask you don't get
Supply issues are still impacting the auto industry.
with 333 MILLION serfs for korp amerika to exploit for poverty wages? PLEASE? they lock the unions out, get scabs and after one year the company can do away with unions.. SI hAbla mexicano, bienvenidos a el estados unidos de mesico. ocho 8 dollares por un hora de trabajo duro
The unfortunate thing is that the executives have so much power and wealth that they can just sit and wait and not come to the table for a very, very long time.
not true. The impact of a strike with this many workers will have an impact on the economy pretty quickly.
Maybe possibly have to liquidate one of their 50 vacation homes vs cant pay next month's rent. Capitalism requires desperation.
@@TheModdedwarfare3 I don’t disagree with you.
There is some hope. A lot of wealth is tied up in stocks which are tied to quarterly profits. When those go down so does stock value and that has a compounding effect on the wealthy. Liquid assets can be taxed, so the rich tend to avoid them where they can. This means they pay their expenses with a much smaller pool of available money than one might think. We just need to let that dry up.
@@Glatix That’s actually really clever! Hope the workers make it through, the next months are not going to be easy.
More of this needs to happen in other industries / sectors! Solidarity with UAW workers from Canada, and all workers everywhere as always.
The union in Canada is the CAW.
@@denelson83 Noted.
labor replacements are coming in to the Country as We strike.
@@denelson83CAW Canada is now Called: Unifor
@@diycarhome9151Oh... I was not aware of that.
I'm a auto shop owner. I own, and work by myself. I stand with you Auto workers. Even being an owner is a pay check to pay check living.
Good luck workers. I hope you can get most, if not all
The U.S. needs to stand up for our labor force. We need high tariffs on cars and auto parts made in other countries
I am amazed that cost of living adjustments ever existed in any industry - we need them everywhere, and if anyone can do it, it will be unions! Solidarity!
It really should be law. The US really needs an overhaul on labor laws. Its been chizzled away for decades to get to this point.
UNIONS will destroy any company that has a hint of ingenuity
@craighermle7727 based on what exactly? 😂 just stop man.
We need Universal Healthcare (Medicare For All) since the private sector employers have proven they are incompetent on healthcare.
Right. You see that worker talking about working 7 days a week and can't even afford to get his teeth fixed. It's disgusting what this country is turning in to.
incompetent or unwilling?
Butbutbut no one will work if they have access to medical and psychological care. Just look at me. Suicidal while resisting get the urge to go after those who made me like this, clearly being forced into another dead end retail job is what I need.
@@poisonduckee country we keep trying to lead by example but you dont want to hear it republicans are the root of all this madness we talk about unity coming together but republicans are the ones who dont care about anyone who are the fearmongering that transforms bad to worst for people just by the accident of letting them in their that bad
Medicare can take a hike. Healthcare needs to be entirely free at point of care. Fire executives into the sun.
I stand with them
love seeing unions becoming more abundant across america, workers need their fair share
Most unions are jokes
Terrible seeing unions destroying America.
Hope they can get what they are fighting for. Back when I worked at GM they were in the beginning stages of implementing the tier system. I left GM in 2006, I was making $28.50 with included about a $1.05 per hour cola. I worked for them about 8 years at 3 different locations.
I work for one of the big 3 American auto companies as an engineer, and I'm hoping the UAW wins this one
Same. Non-union salaried definitely receive fairly competitive pay and benefits, but I can feel that as a whole we are also getting awfully sick of their aimless and unpredictable headcount reductions all the while taking on the work from those let go. It’s a fucked up business they’re running these days.
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is why all mfg has moved to RIGHT TO WORK (for nothing) NON UNION States in the south... lots and lots and lots of cheap / docile labour to exploit for $13/hr and NO benefits. anyone over 22? need NOT APPLY.
Like I was telling someone else, I better get my truck on time that was ordered or they can keep the damn thing.
You are over paid already.
im very excited for this, even as an anti-car pro-urban infrastructure follower. i wonder how this will overlap with things like strongtowns and city planning as a whole if more power is given to the workers.
I love that you brought up Strong Towns. I'm totally for unions and I'm also totally for fiscally responsible land-use policies. Unions will give workers higher wages, and better land-use policies will give workers more affordable housing and the option to live without a car payment. Both will put more money in worker's pockets.
If we can build or reconfigure cities to be less car dependent it will make big strides in facing issues such as global warming, lower cost of living, better land use, overall convenience and quality of life.
My people are in this comment thread. We have a long way to go to come to anything close to the Netherlands when it comes to walkability but I'm hoping that transit oriented development will happen when the passenger train boom that's happening now reaches mid sized cities.
Nothing is changing
@@garymillerjr4452clearly, Gary, nothing is changing for you except ingesting more boot polish
I love the continuing rise of unions and worker's strikes. Build the American left - the actual left, not status quo democrats, and secure a future for working people in america. ✊✊🚩️🚩️
The left? You mean the anti-capitalist left that's intent on DESTROYING the ACTUAL middle class? The union thug bosses lobbying for laws that make it almost impossible to compete eith those corporations you want extorted and bullied?
Oh, yeah...they're for 'the workers' all right...
Amen brother!!!
@@mmorgan227 Which?
United forever in friendship and labor
@deeznutz32108 ???
Sounds a lot like either the pre-soviet bolsheviks or the pre-nazi brownshirts. And neither one of them benefitted after destroying the country they were hoping they could take over.
Just saying...
"There's so much plastic in cars now; you can build one with Legos. " Tom snapped.
Wow! This is absolutely shocking to me. Two of my uncles worked at these facilities. They worked 7 days a week their entire lives Because they were addicted to the money they were making. They worked way past retirement age.
I am completely disgusted with how they are treating their workers today. This has got to stop.
Fully behind you guys and hope that you win.
I grew up in the rust belt and remember graduating from high school back in the mid-1970's. Many jobs are controlled by the unions, plumbers, electrical, factory etc...and if you did not have a relative in the union you had to wait years to get hired or were told to forget it and move on.
@davidwell686 Yes, i'm starting to realize how powerful they are on the east part of this country. Honestly, they don't seem to help much. I lived in los angeles for several years. It's a completely different story with the unions out there . They actually do something for the workers. Unions either way, though, are just dirty.
This country has gone completely backward from all the progress it made for the people.
The people running are government Is pass in present Are responsible for this. People have no idea though what's coming in a few short years. The youth of this nation will be completely blindsided.
They will not grow up with the freedoms and security that we have been blessed with in the past.
Is this the year of the strikes?! I am so curious as to how this year will be remembered. I support them all ❤️
I hope those greedy bastards pay their people AND THEIR TAXES.
Hopefully it eventually leads to a nation wide strike/revolt. Things are so broken and this isnt sustainable.
People forget that part of those wonderful 50s/60s involved taxing the rich at 70-90% and 65% of workers had pensions. Really, the Boomers have fallen down on this by supporting the Moneychangers
You'll love failing GM out again.
It'll be remembered as the year automation took over. The longer the strike lasts the more time they have to install new automated equipment. Pandemics and strikes won't impact production
@@chumps7974 Screw it; tell the engineers that all calculations have to be done by hand or using a slide ruler. And, and, let's build batteries by hand. What could possibly go wrong
Executive produce increased ?
Workers produce everything.
it's called automation. EVs require only 1/3 the amount of workers traditional ICE vehicles need. Workers produce everything until their jobs/roles gets deported overseas.
@@kevinmanan1304 Let’s automate CEOs!
@@GuyWithInternet. ai is psychopathic too.
@@kevinmanan1304 and executives know evs require less parts and service
That's why they resist going electric.
@@publicutilityyea. however the actual decisions CEO's make can and usually are compleatly procedual.
No intellegence needed, there was even a country that replaced thier top execs with nothing but a formula and it worked better....
Until the CIA went in and un-alived the people who scared American CEO's.
I know that it might not be feasible but looking into the striking food workers up here in Canada would be great. This labour movement is happening all over North America
Hopefully Auto Workers here in Canada who are with Unifor (the same union for the Metro workers) will get a peace of the strike pie too. I will be placing my strike vote this Sunday. Solidarity!!!
labor replacements are coming in to the Country as We strike.
Mexico is winning on this one for North America to corporation Mexico is a woman with big boobs and butt, that is all to say it all Mexico is the better attractive woman for corporations in North America.
To say it all is cheaper.
This just shows that that the top execs reward themselves for WORKING so hard and the people actually working to build the vehicles get the shaft.
Wrong, Unions vote to screw new hires and instead pad senior employees pensions.
New hires don't get the same health or retirement benefits as those who were hired before them.
Mary Bara, CEO for GM, has made over 200 million dollars since she took over in 2014.
The people that work high skilled jobs make the money.
Bolting the same part onto a car all day doesn’t fall into the category of skilled labor.
I hope this works out for UAW. My biggest fear is they move all production outside of the US.
Yeah most likely I believe we need migrants from China to work to test the waters to see how Chinese workers perform.
Production will be performed by more robots and AI eventually.
@@yvonneplant9434 Sad but true, corporations favor technology more than people, that way they could keep production inside the country of origin of the certain country the company is based and for example Ford won't send it's production for a certain product to Mexico and then decide to modernize a US assembly plant all automated and turn it to be a state of the art facility with no need for assembly workers; because sophisticated robots do all the work.
Keep fighting! Wife of a Teamster.
THE EUROPEANS STRIKE IF A LEAF FALLS!!!!!!! AMERICANS STRIKE WHEN THEIR LIFE IS ON THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE FIRST STRIKE FAST STRIKE FIERCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL HAIL THE NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 the Union is the backbone of this country not political parties
I love that people are waking up to this fact. The political parties both work for the corporations that abuse us all. Real change is made by us, not politicians
labor replacements are coming in to the Country as We strike.
Toyota ( in Kentucky not far from Louisville ford plant) isn't unionised and they work hard to squash unionisation. I hope that the ford workers can get their demands met. I stand in solidarity! ✊🏼
People who have never worked in a factory don't understand the wear and tear on your body. I use to work for New Center Stamping in Detroit. Had to take pain pills daily to survive. Let's not talk about how dangerous these plants are. Workers deserve more money. No doubt and I hope they get it.
Good luck from a salaried, degreed engineer who never had COLA, a pension or health care after retirement. My raises over the last 8 years is about 3%. The only way I can improve my salary is to quit and go somewhere else. I get no overtime and consistently put in over 50 hours per week. If it gets ugly, at least I have my education in searching for a job. Hope it works out well for everyone.
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Man....whoever synced up the music during the editing process did a... *chef's kiss* mwah!
Legendary job.
It pauses every time the man speaks, and when the man falls silent the music slides back in. Just beautiful, not to mention incredibly impactful. Bravo.
Shut it down. Completely disregarding how the industry kills public transportation and destoys the environment, $80-90k for a truck that cost $40k a decade ago is bs.
Bidenflation.
@@s99614 I hope you feel as dumb as you look for typing that out.
More strikes. Let's keep going until every industry is striking.
Even temp workers can organize there is the Temporary Workers Union Alliance Project and their activity is increasing.
I'm working to organize my temp agency but it's hard because they only put a couple of us together at a time.
The wealthy will simply turn to A I. for everything. And they already have, for the most part.
If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet.
Unionize everywhere then strike.
Tesla would love having the legacy car brands going on strike. The legacy brands are already risking going bankrupt trying to make the change to ev. Tesla makes high margin, is not union and is building robots to replace the workers. A strike would just increase their lead. I don't think the union workers realize they could be striking their way out of a job.
@@pin65371 If that's the response to a union striking that's when you [redacted]. Also people said the same thing about AI replacing workers on the WGA strike, so color me skeptical. Especially with how Musk has been handling his recent business endeavors.
Solidarity with UAW members and all striking workers nationwide fighting for fair pay and working conditions. Glad to hear President Biden will be joining the picket line.
As a Union member myself im glad to see this, but also why has their pay not increased over the last 10 years, the price of vehicles has tripled
I really hope you guys get it. I’m rooting for all of you. Union’s moving forward.
Building union power is so so important for so many reasons. It helps the working class immediately, and on a longer timescale it promotes solidarity which has also been shown to decrease the types of bigotry we've been seeing rising, as workers understand they have more in common with each other than with their bosses, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc
Fully support the UAW. Those 2009 conditions are ridiculous in today's economy. My dad worked for Ford for 35 years, retired with pension and healthcare for life. All UAW employees should get that. ✊🏾 power to the workers.
When I retired from General Motors in 2006 a line worker was making $28 an hour, plus medical, plus pension, plus thirty days of paid vacation, plus paid holidays, including two weeks paid Christmas holidays. I can't believe the workers are making less today than we were nearly twenty years ago. For anyone who thinks anyone can do the work, well there is something to that, BUT nearly half the workers had a body brace of some sort ... neck brace, back brace, wrist brace, etc.. The two tier system has to end. We were considered permanent and full pay at 90 days.
Nothing more beautiful than workers uniting. Stay strong UAW!
RAILROAD WORKERS have a tired pay system and no medical when they retire. THANK YOU BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR NOT LETTING THEM STRIKE... YOU SCREWED THEM
They got their sick leave thanks to the democrats and Bidens Cabinet is loaded with pro labor people most importantly the NLRB chief that replaced Trump's staunch anti worker NLRB chief , there's a reason why unions are making a comeback along with wages finally rising and it sure isn't because of the republiklan.
Your union sold you out. People don’t understand Unions are now part of the problem.
We NEED a national strike.
I'm all about it
Absolutely
*International
Secondary Action is illegal in this country. We need to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act.
Well then, you need to loose your job to Mexico.
This is disgusting, how can a country calling itself the leader of the free world allow for such inhumane treatment of people.
because that's just propaganda invented by the rich to make you think you already have it better than most people and to not try to fight for anything better. when you look at actual data, the US is not the greatest in any category.
@CELONDELON351 Yea, those bastards, how could they only pay their people more than 73% the rest of the population, give them pensions, health insurance, paid holidays, 401Ks, etc and expect them to live like that. It's a good thing they keep the doors locked so none of the employees are able to excape.
Don’t forget about the little people who supply all the major companies we need a voice and help as well
They do understand Americans are NOT paying $70-$100 k for vehicle’s right ? The dealerships are flooded with new inventory just sitting soon there wont be any jobs for production because no one can afford the price tag .
$16 hr is crazy, as a GM shareholder, I agree with the workers, the pay is way too low.
If you agree, then as a shareholder it's time to withdraw. These Corporation's only agenda is to maximize profits at the expense of the workers. It's been 10+ years, and they haven't returned what was promised. When that bottom line of theirs is held in jeopardy or a free-fall, then and only then do they start to make any effort in correcting or treating their workers with respect and dignity.
labor replacements are coming in to the Country as We strike.
Were you a shareholder when they went bankrupt last time😆. It's coming again. The only thing holding GM up is $60k trucks. Once that falls, it's all over.
Elect a new ceo and double everyone wage 😂
It is honestly SCANDALOUS that these corporations can now decide to declare a 'critical status' and force Workers to work 12h/day 7 days a week!!
THAT ALONE should be enough grounds to STRIKE IMMEDIATELY!! 😤😤😤😤
But of course, the current contract allows this... WHICH IS WHY THIS STRIKE IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL!! 😤😤😤😤
That critical status was agreed to by Union members. Just like the 2 tier pay system. That 100 page book of agreed upon dribble is just that. Keep adding garbage on to make that 120 pages of dribble. People working non union jobs can tell their employer to stuff it if asked to work 7 days a week or overtime. 😉
@@mph5896 Uhu, sure thing, people without unions have so much more power. Sounds legit.
@@dvdv8197 I am not the one who cant say no to overtime and make 1/2 of what a coworker makes🤣
@@mph5896 no, you're there one who's a heartless ahole.
@@mph5896 ssshhhh you'll upset the low IQ union workers
It would be helpful if More Perfect Union would post links to where we could act in solidarity with the UAW.
I was thinking the same. Or say what we can do to help in the reporting.
Are these people insane? A 46% pay increase? Get real. No one is going to take them seriously after that insane request..there are a million other people lined up to take their jobs
As much as I paid for my new ford truck. THEY SHOULD BE PAYING THESE PEOPLE MORE. Literally greed Is getting ahold of these big companies.
So well said by Shawn Fain: "While Workers have been breaking their back, the Big 3 has been breaking the bank."
Give these Workers a FAIR SHARE OF THE PROFITS AND STOP THE CORPORATE GREED!!!! 😤😤😤😤
In solidarity with all Workers ❤️
Solidarity ✊🏻
Don't you just loveeee how the first person they turned to were their workers. The ones who got them their profits in the first place, and didn't turn instead to the execs at the top who were obviously grossly overpaid and incompetent.
I am a uaw member local 2383 and I wish our union was a strong as you guys in solidarity. UNION PROUD UNION STRONG.
The CEO salaries are SHOCKINGLY unjustified 🤦🏻♂️
I have faith auto workers will win. Power to the workers.
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Hey dummy. Look at how many automotive plants in Detroit and all over america went to Mexico and other countries. It's the politicians in the unions not the company
or they wlll move the plants to RIGHT TO WORK (for nothing) states or mesico where $2/hr and NO benefits/retirement, mostly wemen workers, trumps all
@@NONAME-kw3pu And we all have a choice to not buy vehicles not made in the U.S...
Go unions!!🎉
labor replacements are coming in to the Country as We strike.
FUCK THE UNION!!!!
My uncle was a UAW member! I'm excited to see this powerful and respected union fight the good fight!!
They voted for Biden and now want to whine about things he has created. Like always, the lazy keep voting for free stuff until there is nothing they can afford. Venezuela here we come.
we'll see how good it is 3 months from now on strike when the mortgage companies start foreclosing on workers' homes with no paycheck in sight. the strike pay won't cover everything.
@@roadmaster720 There's no guarantee that that will happen, and honestly I would be kinda surprised if there wasn't some legislation to protect workers against that possibility.
And by the way... if you ask me, the mortgage companies (and the banks) can go to hell! :)
miss 3 payments and foreclosure can happen.@@hughquigley5337
The auto workers should focus on build better quality vehicles there's a reason why they don't get the raises. Toyota and Honda pride themselves on build reliable vehicles.
No you're wrong they're all junk
Local 1102 member here, these guys got my support. Ford treated their prototype car drivers like they were disposable and trash, and I was one of these prototype drivers for the S650, Escape, Corsair, Explorer, and Nautilus.
McDonald’s workers had more pay than we did.
They can pretty much shove whatever they say up their butt if they ain’t keeping their promise. Keep fighting the good fight.
Need to do something about these car salesmen too! Straight scamming folks!
the problem is they force cars to be sold that way, instead of letting you just order one from a catalogue with a fair price
I'm not an autoworker, just a consumer who has to deal with the end result when I go in to buy a vehicle or have it serviced. That being said the prices have gone so high that I'm not interested in buying anything right now, and I'm taking my cars to an independent shop where the bill is typically 30%-40% less than a dealer's service department charges. FWIW: I consider the whole manufacturer through dealership 'chain' as part of the company, even though the dealers are 'independent' franchisees they still sell a specific brand and have that brands logo on their buildings.
Bro the reason you can't afford a vehicle is because 90% of the nations productivity has gone to the 1% not you. This strike is all about fighting for a middle class so you could afford a new car. Unions used to be the trend setter, the countries wages were buoyed by union contracts, they set the standards
@@richcherwalk6349 Don't forget to tell the rest of the story. If you UAW gets the 40%-46% pay increase, it will put the workers back above the 90th percentile of workers in the US. So there is the 1% that has more wealth than the lower 90% of people and then there is the 9 % in-between those two that have more wealth than BOTH of the other two groups combined.
@@BOBDOBALINA-1234 The idea and what happened in history is workers across the country start banding together to form more unions, eventually the huge wage discrepancy will return to a healthier more reasonable level like it was in the 50's 60', 70's and even 80's, when workers were cherished and honored, instead of this scam where capitalholders earn billions in thier sleep through usury. Jesus and the old testament warned of the evils of usury but today society shows contempt for their workers and worships lazy billionaires who collect usury interest payments, and today the middle class is no gone. Honor real work!
If you want to fight the auto companies, petition zoning to allow housing close to work. Petition for effective public transportation. True story; car, tire, and oil companies bought the old trolley systems that let people go from suburbs to downtown easy and cheap, so they could dismantle them forcing everyone to get a car. Zoning laws were created to make sure you could not live near work and food stores. Where do you burn most of your gas? What if you could live near work and have a little corner grocery where you could get food, all within walking or bicycle distance? Fight back!
Great point! How much of the demands for workers to return to the office is based upon the greed of Big Oil and the legacy automakers to ensure that workers must commute to the office? What with the internet and the cheap and powerful computers of today, there is only minimal need to go to the office every day!
GREED ON THE PART OF THE OIL COMPANIES, LEGACY automakers and the tire companies. FUCK ALL OF THEM!
It's great to see some momentum coming back into the labor movement.
A retired union member, UAWSTRONG Solidarity Brothers & Sisters.
One of the vehicles they make cost $15-20k to build. 10% of that cost is the labor. The price of the vehicle after being created can vary from $50k to $80k.
That's only a portion of the cost. Engineering, marketing, future warranty payouts, etc. all have to be accounted for in the true cost.
The big 3 companies will be bankrupt again within the next 10 years. Maybe not all three, but 1 or two of them will be done. We will see if the government bails them out again.
10 percent is a bargain.
To be honest, the auto industry is responsible for many of our social and environmental problems
And it's safe to say your supporting the problem
Tony u need get rid of flat rate
So Ford can charge $110,000 for a Truck but the workers are barely making ends meet?
Yes welcome to clitkism
Welcome to late-stage capitalism :)
This is what I like too see,people standing up with people for people this needs to happen all across America
I work for 249 Ford for 3 years. Can't wait for this. Been growing my youtube channel on the side incase
Hell ya brothers! Solidarity forever, take back the means of productions the factories are for the workers.
Taking steps to organize my fellow temp employees into the TWUAP 😤
SOLIDARITY, ALL WORKERS!
I tell you what, I'm not sure how the UAW works but the local whatever that was working on a power project we worked in IL was an absolutely nightmare to work with. If you touched a trashcan or unloaded some chains or anything just simple they would start crying and complaining and down right scream and want to fight you! They expected money for full days work if they showed up for 1 hour. Absolutely absurd and just out of touch with reality. They have the protection from the unions so they get lazy and entitled!! Its the only way to see this and what we experienced. It was horrible and no wonder there was such a cost to build such a plant. Was much more than it should have ever been. Then again that is why many companies leave this country. Unions had a place in this country in the early 1900's, but now people have a choice. Called supply and demand. You don't have enough workers doing what you do then the wages go up. You have to many people for the same job, it goes down. TESLA Bot can handle all these tasks in a factory. Almost everyone of them if not everyone and it will happen. Then what is the union going to do?
Joe says you're to work for what you are presently getting and be happy with it, or he's got thousands of migrants who will work for half your cost and be grateful...
Please explain where the money to the higher wages should come from while they’re transitioning to EV’s and losing ~50% on each car. This is a clear path toward bankruptcy
There not losing ~50% there cutting down the cost it comes from manufacturing a whole engine and almost selling it for the same price or sometimes even more its mostly about cooperations squeezing every penny of the amount of excess part they don’t have to create for a EV
Corporations have been focused on their stock prices over everything else fo decades now, and this is the result. CEOs and their boards get huge bonuses and stock shares and don't spread those profits to employees that are actually doing work or engaging customers. I work retail, and I remember the first time we had a meeting and our GM was so proud that our store had made a profit of a million dollars the previous year. All that I could think about was that if this store profitted a million, why am I makeing $9/hr?
No wonder why my ford Explorer is the least reliable car I have ever purchased (and it's my first new car ever), maybe if working conditions were better things would not be so broken.
Next time buy a reliable brand like Toyota and Honda. Fords haven't been reliable for decades, all flash and no substance.
It’s gonna hurt but damn it it’s time to rip the bandaid off and get what we deserve from employers.
Totally agree!!
Is this not the case every few years?
must be a big band-aid on that asshole to rip off to get your just reward !!!! all 8" of it.
The problem is the top brass. They are getting RECORD COMPENSATION in millions of dollars. What I see happening is the auto workers do deserve more pay and the car companies hopefully will give it to them. But they will raise the price of cars to accommodate, $45-$60,000 for a car????? That is not more than the first house I bought 25 years ago. Instead of taking it away the record compensation to the top brass. IT DOES NOT TRICKLE DOWN!!!!!!! The workers deserve a better contract but they need to reign in the top jerks pay to fix it.
Quit saying the problem is wages haven't kept up with inflation, the problem is executive salaries have increased 500 or 600 percent since the 1960's while everyone else's wages have been stagnant for 50 years. Greed of the top 1% is the problem.
Solidarity with the workers, let's show these corporate scumbags that their stranglehold on this country is over! Workers rise up 💪
For some reason we think the stock market is an indicator of how healthy or economy is. The stock market is an indicator of how much wealth businesses extract from workers.
Lol no. Stock market is indicator of how much money printing is at the Fed which is the cause of inflation. Those covid benefits that you took.
It makes me sad to think, that anything that the unions win now, probably won't get them back to where they should be.
yeah they need to go big or go home and not settle for bullshit "compromises".
Here's an idea; why doesn't the union buy a manufacturing facility and make vehicles. Those should be some of the highest quality and least expensive vehicles in the market right.. Wow you people are something else.
@@skAhnaksAyou're so fucking smart.. could you start one for us rq?? you make it seem so easy
@@shtupidmate why, so I can hire a bunch of ungrateful union members that want to control my business? Get your own.
I'd say a lot of the blame falls on the government. Excessive regulations on requirements with all this safety crap, cameras, electrification, ect.. Let the manufacturering industry evolve naturally, the consumers should set the pace on what they want, not a bunch of bird brained bureaucrats. Environmentalists and climate alarmists, vastly exaggerating the climate problem are also part of the problem these days.
They should also reopen grey market imports, the 25 year restriction only protect the dealers and domestic manufacturers, and allows them to jack up prices with no competition. 5-7 years should be fine, give them a generational edge and thats it.
I'm a truck driver and the trucking industry is in bad shape right now as well. The whole labor industry is about on the verge of revolution.
Stay union strong, power in numbers ! I'm retired UAW and stand with you.
The big 3 automakers are going bankrupt. Electric cars are going to destroy their margins and profitable business units. It doesn't matter what these contracts say, my advice to these workers is to get out of this industry asap.
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My parents were both UAW 595. They retired in 07. Union was great and their retiree health benefits plan for medical is second to none. The unions keep the company in line (assuming the union reps aren't compromised). I myself am IBT 877. Go get em!
Stay strong brothers and sisters of the UAW! As a 31+ year member of CWA, I walked the picket line many times fighting corporate greed. Don’t put up with their bullshit!
Why dont they put stipulations on the bonuses the upper management get even when they show making massive losses! That should never happen. You make good money as a company, everyone gets a piece of that. Its like the bankers, go under and the CEO gets $10 million dollar bonus and everyone is ok with that? LOL That is what I would have in my strikes too.
The CWA is weak and in cahoots with the companies not the workers! At least it is here in my state. I’ve heard CWA is stronger depending on where you live.
@@tamlynn786 we are strong here in New York!