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Originally Posted by Danase
You guys believe everything you hear/read. New UAW workers make $14 an hour, have no pension, and are lucky to see health care after retirement. I made $14 just out of high school working part time in college! I can promise you there are not 20 guys with clipboards walking around every shift making sure benies are adhered to. That doesn't even make sense.
I also love how people consider ALL union workers lazy or slackers. I'll guarantee most of those people are online at work instead of doing actual work.
I just don't understand how people can never of set foot in a factory but be experts about it. I worked in a non-union factory on an assembly line making custom boat trailers and you could not pay me enough to do that repetitive work for more than the 3 years I did it. I won't even get into the daily hazards and amount of accidents I saw. I'd never go back to doing something like that again. At the end of the day you feel like a truck slammed into you and you just want to go home and lay down.
That's just my two cents on the whole thing. |
I agree. There is too much talk about lazy union workers. Most of the people here don't even have a choice, you have to join the union. I don't see how that instantly turns them lazy. The people I worked with as a teenager sure weren't.
I will say this, though. A lot of retired auto workers here still make 80%+ of their pay while retired, which is just crazy. I know it's a tough job, but that right there is a big part of why domestics are losing $2k a car.