UAW cant even afford to buy the car they build, have to work 80hrs week and 4 day vacation

If Fedgov would back off regulations they could build a car working people can afford.

Building a simple car like the VW bug these days is illegal.

Obviously the ONLY solution is to raise the labor cost of production of American cars so less people can afford them. Those UAW workers who survive the layoffs could then afford to buy more competitively priced non-UAW foreign cars!

80 hours? Maybe on the time card, but no way in hell is that 80 hours working. Not a union worker.

I bet the people who build private jets cannot afford to buy the private jet they build.

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Least thats what the BBC is reporting

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Their current deal is that new employees (non-professionals) start at ~$37k/yr and within 4 years are given raises to ~$66k/yr. This doesn't include bonuses nor performance-based raises after the period (which they get).

What they are demanding (the last time I looked) is a 48% raise for all UAW workers (I've seen this bandied about the media lately as a 40% increase), a return to pensions and a 32-hour work week.

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Least thats what the BBC is reporting, how shameful of these auto companies.

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I can't blame the UAW for trying to get a contract more reminiscent of the UAW contracts prior to the Financial Meltdown of 2008/2009. After the government bailouts of GM and Chrysler in 2008/2009 the UAW had to settle for tiered wages, no pension and reduced benefits for new hires. Since 2009 the cost of many new vehicles has more than doubled and wages certainly haven't kept up with that level of inflation.

Think about it, if you haven't gotten a base pay increase of 10%/year over the past 2-3 years you're losing purchasing power to inflation.....you have become poorer. Unfortunately it appears the federal government is going to be racking up $2 trillion deficits in perpetuity which means the 95% of Americans are going to be poorer in the future due to inflation and the devaluation of the USD

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UAW cant even afford to buy the car they build

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Neither can anyone else for what that's worth.

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UAW cant even afford to buy the car they build, have to work 80hrs week and 4 day vacation

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And they think getting paid more will keep the cost of the car the same? It will just go up too and we all get screwed by those greedy useless bastards that sit around all day drinking at work building shitty expensive vehicles.

15 airbags, anti collision everything, so many sensors, government mandated everything. Would love to see the raw cost of a vehicle if they just went back to seat belts and people paying attention when they drive.

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Least thats what the BBC is reporting, how shameful of these auto companies.

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An old friend and co-worker spent a couple of years working an a UAW plant. His problem was that he was by nature a hard working kind of guy, but if he did more than the minimal work required, the shop steward would crawl up his arse.