One thing I forgot to mention. The foriegn car plants don't lay off their workers they pay them thier full wages, as they did for three months at the toyota truck plant in San Antonio, Tx., because they wanted to retain their trained workforce. Sounds like a Jobs Bank to me!
I will make this short because your ignorance continues to infuriate me. So many of you know little or nothing about the workings of an manufacturing plant and if you do its just pure jealousy that cause you to criticize. You try standing for ten hour days working for fifty-seven minutes out of every hour doing the same thing over and over four to five hundred times, because that is what is required of an auto plant assembly worker. The benefits we have were negotiated with management and the jobs bank was created by management themselves, so in the event of a slow down in sales, they could retain a trained workforce. All other benefits were attained instead of a pay increase which we have'nt had in eight years. Our insurance is nothing like it use to be, because we gave that up along with wage increases to our retired workers. But what you don't seem to relize is that the only thing that props up your wages, what ever they may be, our union wages as ours go down yours are sure to follow. If you need evidence of that just check into what is happening to the Maryville, Ohio auto plant, where incidentally the make thirty dollars an our. When we signed our last two tier, two classification contract in 2007, Honda sent around a memo that they wre going to lower thier wages to what the other area plants were paying. If your having a hard time getting by on ten dollars an hour, try six. As far a legacy cost go, something transplants will never have, because they keep their employees on the same job until they can't do it anymore, then they let them go. No legacy costs, which for those who don't know are pension cost something you earn, by putting in thirty hard years on the line. The uaw will find you a different job using different muscles and motions so you can get those thirty years and retire in dignity. This is what made this country the envy of the world, these kind of benefits. Now you fools what this to be a third world country with low wages for all but the wealthy the inability to afford a car or home and the inability to put your kids through college. They have suckered you all in. I hope you enjoyed the life you have, because its about to become much worse. Don't always believe what you read, thats how we got into this mess in the first place. It sure wasn't the UAW or the Big Three that created this recession. Wake up a union is the only thing that can save the lower class.
GM, UAW to discuss impact of cutbacks
One thing I forgot to mention. The foriegn car plants don't lay off their workers they pay them thier full wages, as they did for three months at the toyota truck plant in San Antonio, Tx., because they wanted to retain their trained workforce. Sounds like a Jobs Bank to me!
January 24, 2009 at 12:37 a.m. permalink suggest removal
GM, UAW to discuss impact of cutbacks
I will make this short because your ignorance continues to infuriate me. So many of you know little or nothing about the workings of an manufacturing plant and if you do its just pure jealousy that cause you to criticize. You try standing for ten hour days working for fifty-seven minutes out of every hour doing the same thing over and over four to five hundred times, because that is what is required of an auto plant assembly worker. The benefits we have were negotiated with management and the jobs bank was created by management themselves, so in the event of a slow down in sales, they could retain a trained workforce. All other benefits were attained instead of a pay increase which we have'nt had in eight years. Our insurance is nothing like it use to be, because we gave that up along with wage increases to our retired workers. But what you don't seem to relize is that the only thing that props up your wages, what ever they may be, our union wages as ours go down yours are sure to follow. If you need evidence of that just check into what is happening to the Maryville, Ohio auto plant, where incidentally the make thirty dollars an our. When we signed our last two tier, two classification contract in 2007, Honda sent around a memo that they wre going to lower thier wages to what the other area plants were paying. If your having a hard time getting by on ten dollars an hour, try six. As far a legacy cost go, something transplants will never have, because they keep their employees on the same job until they can't do it anymore, then they let them go. No legacy costs, which for those who don't know are pension cost something you earn, by putting in thirty hard years on the line. The uaw will find you a different job using different muscles and motions so you can get those thirty years and retire in dignity. This is what made this country the envy of the world, these kind of benefits. Now you fools what this to be a third world country with low wages for all but the wealthy the inability to afford a car or home and the inability to put your kids through college. They have suckered you all in. I hope you enjoyed the life you have, because its about to become much worse. Don't always believe what you read, thats how we got into this mess in the first place. It sure wasn't the UAW or the Big Three that created this recession. Wake up a union is the only thing that can save the lower class.
the
January 24, 2009 at 12:27 a.m. permalink suggest removal