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Originally Posted by Gpsma
Amazes me that union uneducated skells think they need more than minumum wage to put a tire on a car.
Just like paying McDonalds burger flippers $15 an hour…oh wait, where did those kiosks come from?
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“skell (plural skells) (slang, US, New York) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.” Do you have any reason to believe the union members who work for car companies are homeless? Actually, they own homes and buy cars and pay a lot more in taxes than people who work for minimum wage. Do you have any reason to think that they are stupider than non-union workers who earn less and have worse benefits? Do you really think that union members should have to work for minimum wage? Thousands of Villagers live here because their union wages and pensions and other benefits made that possible. They aren’t wealthy, but they are here, and they are honest Americans who used to work hard.
I was a member of the union at the university where I taught for 34 years. My union dues were 1% of salary, my salary was a little higher than some other schools in the area, but we fought for fair salaries for adjunct professors who were being paid poorly, and we got them. It’s because of my union that my school and I set aside retirement funds for me, and that is why I can afford to live in The Villages today.
I don’t like to see unions over-reaching, and many have, and some have been dishonest, but study histories of the American labor movement and see how unions have worked to get union members fair pay instead of minimum pay.
IF the UAW gets the 40% raise over four years that it is asking for, which isn’t likely, at the END of those four years the average salary will go up to $32 an hour. That’s $66,000 a year, before taxes and FICA and pension and union dues. How much did you earn before you retired? The UAW is also asking for a yearly cost of living allowance. You’ve been complaining about inflation. Your Social Security got an 8.7% COL allowance this year. So the people actually working don’t deserve that?