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发帖数: 29846 | 1 On Sunday, 50,000 United Automobile Workers of America went on strike
against General Motors—America's largest automaker. Union workers walked
out of their 50-plus factories and facilities across nine states, centered
mostly in the Midwest and heartland of America. This is the first walkout
and work stoppage to occur in the U.S. automobile industry in over 12 years.
The union representatives claim that GM places profits before its employees.
They are particularly bothered that the employees helped turn the company
around after it filed for bankruptcy in the midst of the financial crisis
and, ultimately, received a federal bailout—paid by taxpayers—to help
extricate GM from financial implosion.
The union demands higher hourly wages, job security, better healthcare
benefits and profit-sharing plan. The union wants GM to limit the use of
temporary workers and offer those part-time workers a path toward permanent
employment.
GM asserts that it has offered its workers a substantial offer, including
higher pay, profit sharing and a commitment of $7 billion to keep and add
new jobs. The company also said it promised a "solution" for two of the four
plants targeted for closure.
This is not a clear-cut issue. The U.S. automotive industry is facing
incredibly fierce global competition from other car companies, such as
Toyota, the Volkswagen Group, Daimler AG, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
and a host of other car manufacturers.
Similar to other industries, automation, robotics and technology are quickly
replacing people. With these strong headwinds, the UAW is pushing for more
than $20 an hour for entry-level workers, along with top benefits and
pension plans.
GM claims that it is more than generous offering the average hourly employee
roughly $90,000 per year, which does not include top-notch benefits.
The timing of the strike is very curious for two reasons.
UAW officials have been accused of misappropriating union funds—using the
money to support lavish lifestyles, including top-shelf liquor, private
villas, fancy dinners and golf outings. These funds were intended for the
blue-collar union workers at Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler.
UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson faces charges of embezzlement, fraud,
filing false reports and conspiracy and is the first sitting official to be
charged in the prolonged investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal
.
UAW President Gary Jones and former UAW President Dennis Williams have also
been implicated.
Moreover, unions have historically been big Democratic supporters. They have
contributed heavily to Democratic campaigns and union members vote for them
in extremely high-percentage rates.
In a recent piece, I discussed the role that politics plays in pushing the
fortunes of preferred political parties. It would be reasonable to suggest
that the strike—at the beginning stages of the 2020 presidential race—has
some political motives behind it.
Democratic presidential candidates have quickly jumped on Twitter to voice
their complete support for the union workers.
“I'm proud to stand with the hardworking members of @UAW in their fight for
fair wages, health care, and job security. @GM should do right by the
workers who fuel its profits," tweeted presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg,
mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
The other presidential candidates followed suit in their praise for the
union workers and condemnation of GM executives. Former Vice President Joe
Biden, former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-
Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., also
tweeted their support to the workers.
If this strike drags on, it may hurt the economy, which is President Donald
Trump’s key claim to success. Specifically, he has pushed for manufacturing
to return from abroad to the U.S. His Democratic opponents can point to the
work stoppage as a failure of his presidency and the need for a Democrat in
the White House.
The last strike in 2007 caused GM to lose over $600 million. It has been
reported by Dan Levy, an analyst at Credit Suisse, that this current strike
may cost GM about $50 million per day due to lost production. GM’s shares
have fallen about 3% Monday morning.
With intense global competition and the possibility of GM hemorrhaging money
, it looks like everyone involved will end up losing.
It has been demonstrated in other industries that once worker wages rise to
a certain level, companies will invest in technology, which limit the need
of workers in the future. Advanced robotics will make it relatively easy to
replace scores of factory workers—if their demands become too onerous.
Other countries do not compensate their workers as high as America does,
which will make the U.S. and GM specifically even less competitive as wages,
benefits and pension obligations dramatically increase. Other car makers
will be able to produce automobiles and trucks more cheaply and steal market
share from GM. The company will not be able to invest in new plants and
become constrained due to its financial burdens, which will further hurt GM
’s competitiveness.
This goes to the heart of the manufacturing issue in America. While we would
like manufacturing to return to what it was in the past, the world has
since changed.
Cars are manufactured globally in the places where companies can get the
cheapest labor, lower cost real estate and tax incentives. Technology,
automation and robotics are rapidly decreasing the need of factory floor
workers. The fight between GM and the UAW ignores these intractable trends—
and it will be to the detriment of the union workers, GM and its
shareholders. Both sides would be better advised to confront this new
reality and the potentially devastating impact that globalization and
technology will have on the manufacturing industry in America. By ignoring
this, it will only lead to disaster.
Both UAW and GM will be meeting on Monday to negotiate. | f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | | f*****e
发帖数: 5177 | 3 版主根本没读。里面写了average hourly worker more than 90000 per year.
：On Sunday, 50,000 United Automobile Workers of America went on strike
：against General Motors—America's largest automaker. Union workers
walked | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 你说的对, 我写错了. 已经改了数字.
【在 f*****e 的大作中提到】
: 版主根本没读。里面写了average hourly worker more than 90000 per year.
:
: ：On Sunday, 50,000 United Automobile Workers of America went on strike
: ：against General Motors—America's largest automaker. Union workers
: walked
| l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 GM要是有种就把这些罢工的工人全部干掉, 重新招人-估计招的还是原来那些人, 但是
工资会低, 也没傻逼工会来搞. 所谓长痛不如短痛. 过了这个坎以后就没问题了. | m******c
发帖数: 1202 | 6 Are you kidding? GM , after the last bailout, is controlled by UAW now.
: GM要是有种就把这些罢工的工人全部干掉, 重新招人-估计招的还是原来那些人,
但是
: 工资会低, 也没傻逼工会来搞. 所谓长痛不如短痛. 过了这个坎以后就没问题了
.
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: GM要是有种就把这些罢工的工人全部干掉, 重新招人-估计招的还是原来那些人, 但是
: 工资会低, 也没傻逼工会来搞. 所谓长痛不如短痛. 过了这个坎以后就没问题了.
| a******5
发帖数: 2062 | 7 不管九万还是五万，要讲清楚，含不含福利保险？也就是说，到底是 W-2 还是 1099？ | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 8 the UAW is pushing for more than $20 an hour for entry-level workers, along
with top benefits and
pension plans.
【在 a******5 的大作中提到】
: 不管九万还是五万，要讲清楚，含不含福利保险？也就是说，到底是 W-2 还是 1099？
| a******5
发帖数: 2062 | 9 好吧，那就只有放在版主楼里恳求版主了：
有鉴于几个 id（如 fishingarden, Jerrycasper, cellcycle，among others）喜欢有
事没事就要找我麻烦，一天三五贴不止，谩骂嘲讽。由于数量庞大，我常常漏掉而疏于
回骂回去，非常有失礼数。恳请版主开一个专贴，让有此需求的 id 统一在此发帖攻击
我，这样既不会歪了无辜平民的楼，大家互骂也能比较方便，不用找来找去。（例如
Fishingarden 两天六七次在 totally out of the blue 情况下发帖攻击我，三个人加
起来一天这种帖子怕不有十个！这是刚需啊！）
谢谢。 | f******o
发帖数: 2469 | 10 才90000怪不得要罢工 真穷啊
研究称美国大城市家庭年收入至少35万美元才算中产
【在 f*****e 的大作中提到】
: 版主根本没读。里面写了average hourly worker more than 90000 per year.
:
: ：On Sunday, 50,000 United Automobile Workers of America went on strike
: ：against General Motors—America's largest automaker. Union workers
: walked
| | | T*****g
发帖数: 1434 | 11 和他们的女左CEO的$22，000，000的年薪再加$20，000，000奖金，比起来差远了。支
持罢工。
【在 f******o 的大作中提到】
: 才90000怪不得要罢工 真穷啊
: 研究称美国大城市家庭年收入至少35万美元才算中产
| D***I
发帖数: 1957 | 12 左叉就是贪得无厌的寄生虫和病毒
最后把宿主搞死自己也完蛋
工厂被工会寄生，城市被左叉民猪党寄生最后都变得温乱，逆向淘汰，最后破产 | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 CEO的工资是board决定的, 工人不服可以去找board啊.
【在 T*****g 的大作中提到】
: 和他们的女左CEO的$22，000，000的年薪再加$20，000，000奖金，比起来差远了。支
: 持罢工。
| b**l
发帖数: 33123 | 14 我日 什么地方的研究？买卖提的不算
【在 f******o 的大作中提到】
: 才90000怪不得要罢工 真穷啊
: 研究称美国大城市家庭年收入至少35万美元才算中产
| f******o
发帖数: 2469 | | r******t
发帖数: 8967 | 16 这不罢工给你看了
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: CEO的工资是board决定的, 工人不服可以去找board啊.
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