Posted on 03/25/2015 8:56:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The leader of the United Auto Workers union has rejected a third tier of lower wages for members who make auto parts.
Speaking Wednesday at the union’s national bargaining convention in Detroit, President Dennis Williams said the UAW already has too many tiers of lower wages.
Williams was responding to reports that General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. may propose a third tier of pay. He already is under pressure from union members to end a second tier of wages that’s about half the $28 per hour made by longtime workers.
He told delegates that he heard people talking about the third tier, which would pay less than the $15.28 starting wage for second-tier workers, on their way in to the convention center Wednesday morning. “I’m thinking they got too many damn tiers now,” said Williams, who received a standing ovation. …
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Imagine if there were no unions and people were actually paid by their quality of work.
The gathering shoulda been held in Mexico.
That’s where more and more of our auto parts come from.
There. Fixed it.
Excuse me, but doesn’t the UAW essentially own GM?
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