Eliminating tiered employment is a top priority for many UAW workers, who gave union leaders the okay to strike against the Big Three automakers after their contract ends Sept. 14.
only 3 percent of its hourly employees are temps. GM says 5 percent to 10 percent of its UAW-represented manufacturing workers are temps, depending on the plant and time of year. Stellantis declined to give a percentage. All three companies say they have converted thousands of temps to permanent positions during the current four-year contract.
Foutner has been a temp for almost three years, working 10 hours a day, six days a week. Even with that 60-hour schedule, she says she still lives paycheck to paycheck. Jay Kania, who has been a temp at the Jeep factory for almost five years, figures he has missed about $100,000 in profit-sharing and raises over that time. “I’ve just been waiting and waiting and watching and waiting,” he said after voting to support the strike authorization.
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