United Auto Workers members at the Big Three automakers took a strike-authorization vote this week, with results set to be announced Friday.
Joe Genovese was hired by Ford Motor at the tier-two level, as workers refer to it, 11 years ago. In a year, he’ll finally make top pay, he told a United Auto Workers rally last weekend.
United Auto Workers members took a strike-authorization vote this week, with results due Thursday and set to be announced Friday, because the union has been dissatisfied with its negotiations with the Big Three automakers. Contracts are set to expire Sept. 14. “‘Across the board, the rank-and-file hated [tiering]. … They viewed it as discriminatory that people were doing same job and getting paid substantially less, and that [some workers were] treated as second-class citizens.’”
“If we didn’t make those concessions, these [companies], managers and CEOs wouldn’t be making what they make,” Totty said. “Now they’re so profitable, but we still have these provisions from the days of bankruptcy.” As for the issue of automakers striking partnerships with other companies to make batteries for EVs and using nonunion labor, battery-plant workers are starting out at a lower hourly rate of $16 to $20 an hour, Totty said. He expressed concern about what will happen to other workers once the transition to EVs is complete.
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