This week, the UAW presented proposals to automakers in contract negotiations covering some 150,000 workers. Autoworkers want big raises, an end to tiers, and the right to strike over plant closures — and conditions appear favorable for them to win.
Some of the UAW’s demands are pretty awful. If they get a lot of that, they’ll be back to threatening to bankrupt the automakers again. Hopefully they’ll hit somewhere inbetween, with good wage increases, but this whole “require an automaker to pay members for volunteer work if it closes the plant in their community” … what in the hell even? and pensions are a stranglehold on a business, that is a practice that has to end.
Will the UAW continue to oppose health care reforms? That’s my big question.
Part of why we are the way we are in this country, is because of the UAW and the Teamsters, and the UFCW, and probably others, opposing critical healthcare reforms, and demanding these pensions… instead of demanding that everyone get healthcare and the ability to survive in their retirement.
But, no, the unions need those benefits to their members, otherwise why would their members want the unions? (that’s their whole way of thinking…)
For the most part, the UAW opposes doing things for the public good, if they think they can force the automakers to do them instead.
Some of the UAW’s demands are pretty awful. If they get a lot of that, they’ll be back to threatening to bankrupt the automakers again. Hopefully they’ll hit somewhere inbetween, with good wage increases, but this whole “require an automaker to pay members for volunteer work if it closes the plant in their community” … what in the hell even? and pensions are a stranglehold on a business, that is a practice that has to end.
Will the UAW continue to oppose health care reforms? That’s my big question.
Part of why we are the way we are in this country, is because of the UAW and the Teamsters, and the UFCW, and probably others, opposing critical healthcare reforms, and demanding these pensions… instead of demanding that everyone get healthcare and the ability to survive in their retirement.
But, no, the unions need those benefits to their members, otherwise why would their members want the unions? (that’s their whole way of thinking…)
For the most part, the UAW opposes doing things for the public good, if they think they can force the automakers to do them instead.