GM Pushes For More Workers With No Benefits To Save Healthcare Costs

Quality will suffer for sure. Try finding skilled/qualified workers willing to work part time with no benefits when unemployment rates are so low.

The UAW is responsible for this.

bulls eye!!

Yes it is absolutely obvious that it is the Unions fault that GM wants to get rid of their workers benefits. These people would be much more likely to get those benefits if each person bargains for them with GM, 1 man/woman negotiate a great deal with GM. We absolutely need to get rid of all Unions so we can get back to the good old days of the early 1900s, get those wages down to a level where we can compete with China/Vietnam etc...

I am assuming much of your post is tongue in cheek. We are not going back to the conditions of the early 1900's - nor will we ever return to those wage levels either.

Today- a business owner has a real problem balancing their needs for good employees, knowledgeable employees, and the type of benefit package you need to offer to retain a good employee - and then what type of package you need to add production when it temporarily spikes up but you know it cannot maintain those levels.The less time the employee is going to spend working for you - the less you want to pay them - but often employees simply are NOT available at almost any cost.

Temp costs have skyrocketed even though most temps do not receive Medical Benefits - maybe different in the rural areas where most Car Manufacturers are now putting their plants, but here in the North east - if you advertise straight pay temp work - you are unlikely to draw takers. The UAW does not represent temps - most unions do not - this is not their doing - this is the problem of full employment BUT stagnant wages.

That is funny as GM is basically shutting down one of the most modern and efficient plants -Oshawa Ontario (minus a few support jobs) where the workers were covered by Government medical coverage and with the CDN currency conversion was a much cheaper environment to manufacturer than the US...

What this really means is long term both Canada and the US are totally screwed as the real strategy of GM is to eventually shift production to China, Mexico and other 3rd world shit holes (NON UNION) with much cheaper labour. More reasons NOT to buy GM products and this is the thanks we get for bailing their sorry ass out when we should have let these misfits lapse into BK. Government welfare -what could possibly go wrong?

Mfg plants are dangerous places to work. It is not like working in a library or a bank. You can't expect people to come to work in a plant without any medical coverage and or benefits.

So you're saying that the union has failed to ensure safe working conditions?