I though the auto jobs in the south sucked??? Guess the press is wrong again
Buckeye’s exactly right. The union’s have been salivating to get in at one of our plants in central KY. We work a ton of OT because we’re over capacity on most of our production lines...we literally can’t keep up with customer demand. The plus side is that a machine operator with a GED and clean record can make $50-$55k a year with OT. The downside is that it’s hard to work a 12-hr schedule 6 and sometimes 7 days a week.
So, the unions see it as a golden ticket in, and have been trying for a long time to get our employees interested with the promise of shorter work-weeks, higher pay, etc. The good thing is that our pay and benefits are already awesome, so there’s not a lot of interest on the employee’s part to listen to what the union salts have to say. The younger generation is more apt to listen, but the older dogs have seen what unions have done and want no part of it.