Tensions and tempers rise on the picket lines as General Motors strike enters Day 3.
Tempers have been flaring on the picket lines as theentered a third day Wednesday and union negotiators and management appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a deal.
Meanwhile, GM has dropped the health-care plans for the roughly 49,000 workers who walked off the job early Monday and effectively halted production at plants around the country. "It's unfortunate that General Motors is using current health benefits that over 47,000 GM workers and their families depend on as a way to leverage unfair concessions," Kaplan said.
The UAW, which wants a wage increase that will offset any health care coverage cost hikes, said thanks but no thanks, the paper reported. In recent months, GM CEO Mary Barra has handed out pink slips to thousands of workers and closed four U.S. assembly plants as part ofthat GM said saved the company $1.1 billion in the first half of 2019 and $700 million in the second quarter of this year.
Barra is the highest paid auto executive in the country. She makes $2.1 million in salary and has a total compensation package of nearly $22 million. By contrast, the typical GM assembly line worker, toiling 40 hours a week, makes between $60,000 and $70,000 a year, a UAW spokesman said. Those figures do not include overtime and other benefits.
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