Well Duh! UAW Says They Will Gladly Take A Share Of Automaker Profits

Bleed them dry till you have no job left. Just like the goverment did with our tax money. We should demand they not pay themselves until they balance the budget.....

Hey, I got a really great idea, how about sharing some of that profit with us hard working American Citizen who bail your sorry a$$ company when you needed to stay float. It's our tax money so should we entitle to it as well?

Hey, I got a really great idea, how about sharing some of that profit with us hard working American Citizen who bail your sorry a$$ company out when you needed to stay float. It's our tax money so should we entitle to it as well?

If the automakers were smart they would use the Job attendance/profit sharing method to encourage employee's to leave the union and go back to competitive wages/benefits.

And random drug and alcohol tests.

There is nothing wrong with profit-sharing plans.

However, let's not pay out one red cent until All TAXPAYER MONEY IS RETURNED from those bailouts.

Also, it is unfortunate that the rank and file UAW member does not understand that his share of the profits would be much greater without the union standing in the middle.

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"UAW President Bob King said today that the union is open to tying profit-sharing for autoworkers to attendance rates in contract talks."

What a joke these UAW butt heads are. Since when does "tying attendance rates on contracts" have anything to do with QUALITY of the car. Just because the UAW pot heads show up to work, doesn't mean that will translate into producing a QUALITY vehicle. How about mandating drug testing, plus tying initial quality surveys, reliability of their cars to any profits shared with UAW members. I'd work on the unions image (pot smoking and beer drinking at lunch) before I'd go demanding profits. These UAW dinosaurs never learn.

UAW workers are infamous for calling in sick and having a buddy show up for them. It's a scheme/loop hole they work to exploit the company. In one of their contracts somewhere they got the companies to agree that replacement workers get paid more. i.e. if you work my shift for more I'll work your shift for more... forcing an attendance clause will help eliminate this loop hole. Unfortunately it just ends up in costing the company more as true profit sharing includes loss sharing and this likely won't have it.

"UAW workers are infamous for calling in sick and having a buddy show up for them. It's a scheme/loop hole they work to exploit the company. In one of their contracts somewhere they got the companies to agree that replacement workers get paid more. i.e. if you work my shift for more I'll work your shift for more... forcing an attendance clause will help eliminate this loop hole. Unfortunately it just ends up in costing the company more as true profit sharing includes loss sharing and this likely won't have it."

Joe this does not happen. We have only five personal days just do a little research if you dont believe me.

profit sharing is already tied to attendance.

And the redneck strikes again- you can always tell by the title of the thread.

Here is how it should work...determine % of total profits that can be paid to labor which keeps GM viable and growing, pay UAW workers $500 a week, an annual bonus based on predetermined % of profits, half in cash and half in stock. If you want the rewards from generating profit you have to accept the short and long term risks that go with it. This reflects the risk/reward approach investors take but the UAW I would suggest would never accept it...they just want more now and more later
no matter what !

@ Joe_Limon - You are absolutely correct on what you stated about UAW members having people showing up for them, etc. UAW_LAX is showing his ignorant side once again, and that he thinks he patrols EVERY plant.

As I've stated in the past, my duma@@ brother worked in Ford's Sterling Heights plant in Michigan. (Yes - I called him that). Before he retired, he was caught having one of his friends, working his shift. He worked the graveyard shift for almost 32 years and decided that he wanted to take an extended break for a couple of days. There weren't many employees working on the third shift, but they still needed some folks to cover the factory floor. So he had another person "punch in" for him; which lead to this fellow spot working for him.

Finally, the daytime supervisor caught him and wrote his dumma@@ up. He was going to be disciplined, but appealed the 2 week suspension he was given, to his local UAW committee. They fought for him since it was his "first time being on record". (That doesn't mean this wasn't done before). He "apologized" and was back on his job 2 days later after the decision was made. One day at a family BBQ, the brothers where talking. He told us how he owed his job to the UAW, then told us the "story". I preceded to tell him "so you think it's ok to cheat your employer"; and also said that's why I won't buy a car made at your plant.

Having 5 personal days has nothing to do with whether a person could sneak in, punch in and pretend to be that person. Since my brother merely drove a hi-lo on the graveyard shift to move material and parts around, it was easy for someone to do his position.

My nitwit brother worked at the Sterling Heights plant from 1975-2007 and unfortunately he did this. That's why him and I don't see eye to eye on things. UAW dinosaurs!!!