GM has monstrously high overhead ~ hundreds of thousands of retirees receive pensions and medical insurance form GM.
The guys working on the the don't earn the big bucks like they used to.
Considering the low quality I’ve been seeing the “guys on the line” churn out, they’re *still* overpaid.
The guys working on the the don’t earn the big bucks like they used to.”
Don’t know what gross per hour wage you think the guys on the line get, but I have read that the $72 per hour, with all the benefits starts with a gross wage of $35 or so an hour.
If that figure is correct, can you tell me that putting on a bumper is worth $35 an hour?
I don’t think it is. I know it is monotonous- I have worked in factory jobs in the past...but in a non-union setting, neither the $35 nor the $72 would exist.
I have been forced to be a member in 5 different unions in my working life. I hated every one of them, and the union hot shots were only pushing strikes for themselves- they never lost a single dime when we were “on strike”. I never voted for a strike at any time.