American Axle Strike: Day two(I crossed a picket-line today for the first time.)

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Squisher
I have fellow Die-room employees that have been laid off for three years that are collecting 40 hrs. of full pay (about $70K/yr.) and have jobs making the same on the outside.

How can an employer be expected to keep this up?

Bam, exactly. And people scream and holler when jobs get sent overseas.

I don't think that could have been said any better... It's funny to think of all the programming jobs that went over even without unions... Mabye we should unionize IT... oh wait... we sit at desks all day... everyone should be this lucky.

I really feel for anyone who has to deal with a superunion... GL man :beer:

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: dquan97
The Guaranteed Income Stream is unfair to the employer, since the employee doesn't have the incentive to find work during the 42 weeks

Before the 42 weeks you collect 95% of you pay between unempoyment and Sub pay, then at the 42 week mark you start collect a paycheck again until the end of the contract.

Well that's plain ridiculous. Why even lay them off if you still have to pay them?

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: bradruth
SCAAAAAAAB!

Silly rabbit he had no choice but to cross the line. AA's UAW members were on strike not the machinists. The fact that one of the strikers called him a scab doesn't make it so. If their shop committee doesn't make their members understand that he is not a scab and let him be harassed then the are a sad ass committee.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Nebor
I'd still stick to cars built outside the US... The higher end Jags, Volvos and BMWs are still built in Europe and shipped over.

The BMW plant in Spartanburg now builds Z cars and the SUV's for the world. The only thing German in them is the Motor and Transmission. EVERYTHING else is manufactured in the U.S., iirc.
This was the trade off for allowing them to put "Made in Germany" on every car.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: NesuD

Originally posted by: bradruth
SCAAAAAAAB!

Silly rabbit he had no choice but to cross the line. AA's UAW members were on strike not the machinists. The fact that one of the strikers called him a scab doesn't make it so. If their shop committee doesn't make their members understand that he is not a scab and let him be harassed then the are a sad ass committee.

I think bradruth was just trying to be funny.

I really wasn't in anyway a scab. I was legally bound to come to work or federal sanctions against the union and the loss of my job were possibilities.

Sympathy strikes are illegal.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: dquan97
The Guaranteed Income Stream is unfair to the employer, since the employee doesn't have the incentive to find work during the 42 weeks

Before the 42 weeks you collect 95% of you pay between unempoyment and Sub pay, then at the 42 week mark you start collect a paycheck again until the end of the contract.

Well that's plain ridiculous. Why even lay them off if you still have to pay them?

All the company gains is during the first 42 weeks and maybe the GIS payments come from a different account in the ledger and is reported to stockholders differently.






On a different note: Maybe I should start another thread about my dysfunctional emotional attachments to only buying American and what that really means in the world we live in now.