Wait..What? Union Workers Protest Own UAW HQ For Low Wage Workers?

*face palms*

ughhh... small cars do not have high margins...

This makes the uaw seem moderate :-/

Hell has frozen over....I'm actually going to have to side with the workers this time. 30k a year seems a little low to me.

It's closer to 60-70k once you include benefits.

Can't say I agree with that argument in this current economy. I have a friend of mine who holds a masters degree and was a corporate manager looking for a job for almost a year and is going to take a job as an assistant manager at a Best Buy for less than 14 a hour.

This within the mid atlantic market place where everything costs exponentially more than in Detroit.

Basic business dictates that you have to be profitable to survive. There profit margins were based around trucks not small cars; because the UAW contracts were crippiling to the auto industry and eventually killed the cheaper priced higher technology (well...for Detroit standards) cars. Now with new CAFE standards...not to mention the reality of the cost of gas...we are forced to produce more small cars. Detroit must comply or just give up entirely...and then you wouldn't have to worry about $14 an hr because you would be making $0 an hour.

Now I'm not cold hearted and I realize a cost cut of 50% is drastic (and I know salary cut first hand as a former Air Traffic Controller) however, would I take a 50% pay cut to ensure I had a job tommorow and the following year...you bet I would.

Deboost away...

FYI does that woman in the background have a mink coat on? I'm just wondering who shows up to a protest about wage loss...with a mink coat.

What benefits do they get for 15k Joe?

the best health coverage out of any private sector in america. Also, if their jobs get replaced by machines, they get paid out with retirement. Every position is entitled to these benefits, including people mopping floors and cutting grass.

Joe cutting the plant maintenance has been completely outsourced for over a decade now. If a machine replaces your position you bump the next lowest man out by seniority until someone with little to no time is out of a job. Since 2007 we pared down our insurance that that year the same time instituted a 2 tier wage to save the GM some money. like i said much of what you know is about 20 years old and no longer true today.

I feel the union workers are in the right. They are trying to keep what they have, many are jealous of what they have obtained over the years saying they are uneducated. Today you can work on an oil rig with no high school education and make over 100 grand if the opportunity is there to make money so be it the same can be said foe wall street. By the way BMW and MB two of the most successful car companies today is unionized.

Well they are trying to keep what they have, and you can't blame them for it.

The question is can the automaker still pay what it takes to make them happy? If not production goes overseas because the consumer won't pay top dollar simply because it is Union made.

009 great point, but let me remind you that that there are MANY more that will look for UNION MADE label. After the bankruptcy, all of the Government Motors stuff being, and anti-Union negativity GM has increased it market share, and made a profit every quarter this year after running the gauntlet through all of the bashing and is still currently #1 in US sales and is still one of the worlds largest.

We can argue all we want in favor of the worker but in the end if the company cant make money, then what the hell are arguing this for? Pointless.

Maybe we're not hearing the whole story... Who cares! If the company can't afford them but is still employing them, what on earth are they complaining about?!