GM and the UAW went at it in negotiations for multiple weeks, with the strike stretching over a month before finally reaching a tentative agreement. The strike was very hard on GM hourly workers as they went without pay for six weeks. Eventually, the contract with GM and the UAW was ratified, and the UAW strike ended, but the contract passed narrowly.
Now that the UAW strike is over, some GM workers are saying that it wasn’t worth it in the end. GM UAW worker Mike Yakim says that he lost six weeks of pay, and the strike didn’t accomplish its goal. Yakim is specifically talking about the product allocation goal. He says that GM shuttered the Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio and that he had hoped the union would win a new product for that plant and restart the facility.
GM UAW member Sean Crawford echos Yakim in that he doesn’t believe the union got what it wanted in the GM contract. Both he and Yakim believe the union should have stayed on strike longer to get a deal with promised and detailed job security.
Crawford says he voted no on the contract due to the lack of equality in pay and the lack of job security. Labor expert Marick Masters notes that it’s unclear which of the guarantees Ford gave the union were new due to bargaining, and which the automaker had already planned to do because the investment aligned with its business model.
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Two comments, facilities are built, modernized, coasted and/or closed in all industries for a number of reasons. I come from the paper industry so with the contraction in market and low demand, only the very strong survive.
Second, if someone off of the street, that does not serve an indentured apprentice program, can do your job, than your job is the kind of job that should not pay very much. If high skills are required and lots of experience, than they pay should be high.
So the argument that someone along side of me, off of the street, should get high pay does not work with me.