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Biden backs auto union in strike for 40% pay hike and 32-hour week
Nypost ^ | 09/15/2023 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 09/15/2023 11:56:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought for sure this was going to be the Babylon Bee. Seriously. Just crazy.


21 posted on 09/15/2023 12:41:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Vendome

FED overtime law starts AFTER 40 hours have been WORKED.

4 10’s 5 8’S or a combination of other hours.

HIGHLY SKILLED is a joke.

IF they were highly skilled-—they would have their own companies.


22 posted on 09/15/2023 12:43:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get a pay raise, and work 20% less hours. How will they produce more in 32 hours to cover the higher pay?

Layoffs is how, they just don’t realize that, they never do.


23 posted on 09/15/2023 12:49:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A 40% pay hike? What are they - Federal employees? Jeeze.


24 posted on 09/15/2023 12:51:20 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

CRAPPY Cars will cost $100-$200k..................


25 posted on 09/15/2023 12:55:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: oil_dude

WHO NEEDS A ‘TAXPAYER’ WHEN YOU CAN PRINT MONEY AD INFINITUM?............


26 posted on 09/15/2023 12:56:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

40%???!!!!!


27 posted on 09/15/2023 1:04:16 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They won’t be happy until they force the big 3 to offshore all their jobs overseas.


28 posted on 09/15/2023 1:06:27 PM PDT by BradtotheBone (When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will end up being another Lee Iacocca Chrysler Bankruptcy type bailout for the “big three”. But much larger than the $1.5 billion in federally backed loans. Lets see how long this goes on. Keep an eye on the Teamsters.....


29 posted on 09/15/2023 1:15:11 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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The only sacrifice I can think of is paying their union dues which then go directly into Democrat campaign funds.

$1.something billion in 2022......


30 posted on 09/15/2023 1:18:17 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: SaxxonWoods
Get a pay raise, and work 20% less hours.

I served a 15 years sentence in Detroit as a Tier One supplier to GM and Ford.

Not for nothing do the salaried engineers refer to UAW as standing for United Against Work.

Been there, seen that, burned the t-shirt.

31 posted on 09/15/2023 1:39:16 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course he will imagine all the illegals they would have to hire to work 3 days 3 shifts and welfare.

The $35.00 an hour slackers get more pay less work hours.

Who doesn’t want more socialism /s


32 posted on 09/15/2023 1:46:27 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Management is now 1. Planning more off-shoring, 2. Talking to Swiss and other automating-machine manufacturers.

End result: fewer Union jobs in the USA.

I will continue to buy cars NOT made in the USA.


33 posted on 09/15/2023 2:10:09 PM PDT by aculeus (Just Call Him "No Border" Biden)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WOW!
It sure takes b*lls to demand such super-high raises (with reduced work production)

and on top of what are already above-average wages

no wonder the car companies have been sending more and more of the work to foreign factories

this looks like another USA industry about to have to shut down


34 posted on 09/15/2023 2:49:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why do I have to feeling that us taxpayers are going to get hosed for this?

Because that’s what ALWAYS happens. Look, I actually am a conservative that supports manufacturing and manufacturing unions. I think that the POTUS needs to stay away from these disputes. When past POTUS’s have been involved it always ended up outsourcing US jobs and production. Then, the Unions pensions go belly up and the taxpayers are the ones that bail them out.

The fix, IMHO, is Tariff of products to the tune to cover the shortfall in tax revenue the year before in government spending. 1 trillion of Tarrifs raise up the prices of foreign products enough to give domestic auto manufacturers a chance.


35 posted on 09/15/2023 3:06:11 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: gibsonguy

Is this the new way to stop people from buying cars altogether? Priced so high no one can afford to buy them.
Buy them on time? Payments will only be $3,500 a month. Course insurance will go up too so another $1,200 a month.


36 posted on 09/15/2023 4:02:14 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because pickup trucks at $70,000 a pop aren’t priced high enough.....


37 posted on 09/15/2023 4:07:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro (An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Biden getting kickbacks from foreign automakers?
These demands will raise the prices of automobiles made in UAW infested plants forcing people to turn to the cheaper vehicles made in plants not infested by the UAW. Those plants are in right-to-work states and in foreign countries.


38 posted on 09/15/2023 4:10:37 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: oldasrocks

I have been around UAW members a number of times and they were absolutely clueless about cause and effect. It was management is out to screw us and we have to get as much as we can when we hold the strike gun to their heads. The attitude that drove hostess bakery into bankruptcy is ubiquitous with them. Think if the company CEO gets a raise that means the thousands of worker are owed one. Not should get one, they are owed one. Between the fascist CAFE standards and this contract the cost of car will be out of reach for most.


39 posted on 09/15/2023 4:48:08 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SaxxonWoods

Double the work force and run 7 days a week. Doubles the union dues and funds to the dnc


40 posted on 09/15/2023 4:49:05 PM PDT by cableguymn
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