UAW Says Two Tier Pay Scale Is Tearing Apart Unity

The pay inequality is causing divisiveness on the factory floor and pitting membership against each other at a time when workers need to present a unified front in fighting more concession during this year's round of contract talks, these UAW-represented workers say.

The event, organized by dissident group Auto Worker Caravan, drew about 50 attendees to St. John Baptist Church off Woodward Avenue, some from as far away as Indiana and Ohio.

Speakers at the event urged members to vote no on preserving the two-tier wage structure through the next contract

Joe_Limon - 8/15/2011 5:07:53 PM

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"Rah rah communist ideals"

Personally, I'm all for abolishing a two or three tiered wage scale. Pay the workers based on their individual value to the company not on one or two all encompassing platforms.

Joe_Limon - 8/15/2011 5:09:07 PM

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I wonder how many people there protesting were on an upper tier?

gkearns56 - 8/15/2011 5:36:16 PM

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UAW Member is protesting because, "The upper tier workers are getting a BETTER GRADE of pot their smoking". We're all entitled to the better grade of smokes too. They'll always be just a bunch of dinosaurs.

sold2early - 8/15/2011 7:03:43 PM

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The more infighting the better.