Auto industry experts break down the latest in the UAW's negotiations with the Big Three.
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Former UAW spokesperson Brian Rothenberg and auto analyst John McElroy break down the latest in the UAW's negotiations with the Big Three.
Credit to CBS Detroit for having real people on and not the typical corporate cardboard cutouts.
They still are corporate cut outs.
Just more realistic corporate cutouts. The fact he says Jobs are more important than wages shows he's a corporate cutout.
Brian Rothenberg is a laughing stock
Solidarity 💯
Local 598 here...all three of us will walk!! We are behind Fain 💯!! The membership has spoken!!
#Local 249 We stand with you & Fain
WE WILL FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!! STAY STRONG UAW BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!!!💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
Our voices WILL be heard! We WILL strike! We WILL fight! Local 685, In solidarity, we WILL win!
Local #249 & We stand with you. We UNITE & We will get what we deserve!
Play time is over... our Local 12 Members support our leadership 1,000%.. we do want our leadership making it very clear where we stand
Hello my Toledo Brother.
UAW 249
LOCAL 12 REPRESENT!!!! JL Paint !!!
#Local 249 We support Fain! & We will strike if necessary to get back what we deserve!
Good luck guys! Get what you deserve!
Americans have and continue to suffer the ravages of inflation. The average family has seen their real dollar value reduced by 30% over the last three years. Auto prices have skyrocketed and the cost to finance them is now over 8%! Add on top of that no automakers are giving any discounts or rebates. In this environment the tune deaf unions steps in. Much to their own demise.
We are to feel sorry for these people who have the highest absenteeism than any workers in the industry? Face it an anyone can do their job because it no longer takes a “skilled laborer” to do this job. ALL THE REAL PRECISION WORK IS DONE BY ROBOTS.
NOW LET’s GET DOWN TO THE FACTS. United Auto Workers pay ranges from a low of $83 to a high of $112 per hour. When you add in the hourly burdened rate of the hourly cost of the union pension and bonuses it easily over $150 per hour.
I know because I did the labor budget for Intel’s largest division (Embedded Chips Division) for 20 year and the average cost of all in cost was 100% to $150 percent the average salary per hour.
So go ahead and strike…..
Soy de Puerto Rico soy miembro local 2341 del Deparment Transportation of Puerto Rico ❤ la U.A. W. Un tiempo fui precidente de la Unión.
We aren’t stupid!! We know some of these demands are pie in the sky but you shoot high set expectations high so you can get the most from a contract. Local 1853 Solidarity 4 ever
They aren't pie in the sky. They are realistic demands.
My belief that we (the workers) should take control and ownership of the plants would seem like pie in the sky. (Long term goal of mine)
@@MutualistSoc personally wage increases eliminating tiers cola job security based on EV transition 90 day to full time and full time pay retirees getting a pension increase 15% to 20% minimum 401k employer contributions instead of pensions ask a Delphi retirees they aren’t worth the paper they were written on. Those are my priorities.If knuckleheads like my self get that from the company and drop 5% to 10% for 30 years you’ll be better off than any 30 year old head. They get me that I will vote YES
Preach brother! You don't ask for half a loaf, you ask for the full loaf of bread.
Pie in the sky is a losing mindset to have when you’re talking to a company making billions. Wage increase is doable, cola pay is doable, elimination of tiers is doable, profit sharing is doable, the ONLY thing that we probably won’t get is the 32 hour work week. I can’t imagine ANY company paying you more to be there less. However, we are all prepared to strike for as long as we need to until it hurts their pockets to do nothing else but agree to our terms. They will fold before we do. RECORD PROFITS, RECORD CONTRACTS! Solidarity ✊🏾
@gervarusgiles1524 A relative of mine is a Bargainer. Shorter working hours isn't unachievable.
At the place he works. He managed to negotiate a 36 hour work week. (3- 12s) but you get paid for 40. And anything over your 36 hours is time and half like normal.
Sean Fain is doing a great job! Spot on realizing what we will likely get, and most likely not get. As a UAW Member a lot of us do not want a Pension, we want Company contributions tripled to our 401K. The Pension allows the company to control when I can retire, 401K allows me to choose when I decide to retire.
I don't want my tesphe linked to the stock market that they funnel to themselves at the top 😂
I stand with the brothers and sisters in the Union. My husband is a auto worker and it’s time to see changes. The corporation is profiting while the workers are suffering.
GM, Ford, etc are on the verge of bankruptcy. Y'all are in for a reality check.
Big record profits = Big record Contracts boys and girls. We arent here to play around and not get what we deserve. WE WILL STAND STRONG, WE WILL UNITE, WE WILL GET WHAT WE DESERVE #Local 249 KCAP
Cost of living is essential! They cut our legs off when they took that away. We made concessions and the very same week they gave management a raise! Total slap in the face! But it’s time we get a contract that don’t strip things away and gives us back the concessions we made at a MINIMUM!
In previous years the UAW has forgotten their retired members and this needs to change! These members gave all and now its time to include them when negotiating.
I work at the Kokomo IN transmission plant for 28 years. We prepared for 6 months to a year.
GMCCA here, we support Fain 100% !!!!
They better not screw the CCA’s this time around. We need our price of the pie since we kept them afloat during Covid and the last strike
As 1 of Jane Q public I stand with the union and the workers all the way. The only unions I don't support ever is law enforcement and security companies or corporate security
Hope you never need assistance from law enforcement....
@@Freedom_Fighter72 every time I have ever needed law enforcement they have been a day late and a dollar short and I was once run off the road by a CHP and threatened if I reported it and every encounter with the police has them lying to my face and trying to violate my constitutional and civil rights, to me their just another gang with the highest kill count of armed people each year who thinks it's cool to desecrate the American flag with their blue gang stripe, however as a jurists I take these facts into the jury with me. Here's a question for you how does being a cop absolve the cop from being a criminal or a corrupt and why should I be prejudice against everyone else just to satisfy your occupational bias (favoritism) towards the police. Oh I'm a white baby boomer
Hopefully they don't do what they did in 19 and throw a large signing bonus in our faces, we need cola and a competitive raise to set the standards for surrounding companies. I'd take that over a signing bonus any day, the whole pension would be nice but a higher 401k match would be better, if they did get a pension whats to say it wouldn't be gone next contract. We have a good uaw president and hopefully is ready to fight.
Thats exactly what they are gonna do shove a big signing bonus and a rais in our face and the corporate high ups know we will go for it but hopefully not this time and we stand firm on our demands !
That last bonus was only 9k. I want between 30k-50k……Show me the money😂
@@RJ30000 Don't bend to a one time bonus, it won't go as far as you think. The UAW has a large strike fund and can outlast the automakers. What the union needs on the long term is a big raise coupled with cost of living assistance
Im UAW
Im totally fine striking these companies into bankruptcy.
Start Pay Assembly line worker: 17$
Start pay of Mcdonalds workers down the road from Plant: $14.
Top pay of small company steel business down the other end of the road: $30
Top pay of Multi Billionaire dollar company: $31
Sending them into bankruptcy is the only solution to ending their corporate greed. Strike until all three shut their doors forever! Telsa is doing fine and import cars are abundant, the big three are not even needed anymore. Strike! Strike! Strike!
The companies won't go bankrupt, they will move more production to Mexico.
Mass protests next to the White House lawn and within Congress to pass a Law requiring that every plant that shuts down, has to be first offered to the workers to buy collectively and become a Worker Cooperative (Like Mondragon Corporation)
And let there be shared patent rights, then get to build the same product they were beforehand, just with a new brand badge that fits the new worker cooperative company.
And after doing so, take the fight to Mexico. To Unionize those workers down there. Organize with our fellow workers across the invisible borders our leaders create to try and split up the working classes of the world.
Have you ever wondered why, our leaders and the capitalist don't have borders? They can fly anywhere they please, and they can exploit where ever they please. They are organized across continents.
But when it comes to average people, the workers. We have walls put up between us. The capitalist who run this world say we arnt allowed to work with each other. We have to compete with each other with our labor. So there is a race downward for us trying to undercut the other's throat. But the capitalist doesn't have to compete. They don't Slice each other's throats. They leave that to the workers. And the few times the capitalist of the world get into a dispute. They turn it into a bloody World War. But they don't fight the wars. The workers fight the wars. And the capitalists keep the profits.
Americans have and continue to suffer the ravages of inflation. The average family has seen their real dollar value reduced by 30% over the last three years. Auto prices have skyrocketed and the cost to finance them is now over 8%! Add on top of that no automakers are giving any discounts or rebates. In this environment the tune deaf unions steps in. Much to their own demise.
We are to feel sorry for these people who have the highest absenteeism than any workers in the industry? Face it an anyone can do their job because it no longer takes a “skilled laborer” to do this job. ALL THE REAL PRECISION WORK IS DONE BY ROBOTS.
NOW LET’s GET DOWN TO THE FACTS. United Auto Workers pay ranges from a low of $83 to a high of $112 per hour. When you add in the hourly burdened rate of the hourly cost of the union pension and bonuses it easily over $150 per hour.
I know because I did the labor budget for Intel’s largest division (Embedded Chips Division) for 20 year and the average cost of all in cost was 100% to $150 percent the average salary per hour.
So go ahead and strike….
#Local685 love seeing that. Give us what we want or we walk. I paid attentions in school. The last time wages in this country were unliveable we stopped working and created unions. Cant make a product and get rich if we dont build it for you.
We shouldn't even be compromising with our oppressors anymore. A day will need to come when we just take ownership of the plants. Capitalists like these executives never negotiate in good faith, and every day they abuse contracts and fight us with a race to the bottom.
At some point in history. You have to revolt against the oppressive kings. I just wonder what will be the needle in the haystack.
Exactly they will crumble when the strike happens, I don't see them lasting more than a month in strike if we go there. The big 3 wouldn't be able to stand seeing no profits being made for no more than a month in my opinion, it would shed all of their "record profits" off of this year that they have been gaining due to us building them. We will see. Stand Strong & Stay united. #Local 249 KCAP
OK the retirees has not received a raise n their penson retired n 2016 local 22😮
The manufacturers act like they haven’t been getting over on the Union for 15 years 😂
Always do
UAW Local 212 READY TO FIGHT ! 👊
Why is it that no one EVER addresses the exurbanite salaries C.E.O and their inner circle make in the USA? Why must a worker 755 years to make one years salary of a CEO? The auto industry cries it can't afford to do X but somehow it always does. (safety glass, seat belts, crumple zones, gas mileage and so on)
Because at the end of the day this is mainstream media, the corporate elites media broadcasting system so of course they wouldn't bring that up because it could possibly expose and trickle into other industries greed.
I’m willing to be on the picket line for what is owed to us. Ford employees took big concessions for ford not to file bankruptcy from the government. So, hell yeah🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
As an autoworker I just wanted to say your analyst talking about "they wont get everything" guess what they are DEMANDS we arent asking for these things we are demanding. They are not optional.
The UAW will bankrupt the old three domestic automakers and the customers will move on just like a beer company.
Ya because a ceo needs to make 10 million a year. Billions in profit….. how many billions do they need to make to be satisfied?
I hope it doesn't come to that.
I dont care. Pay me what I'm owed... or close your doors. I'm done working for near minimum wage.
Cut the pay of the board of directors in half.
Unskilled factory workers that want OWNERS pay. Fire em all
Loca 1268 we already know what to really expect. We're prepared if a strike is need . September 15 is strike date if there's no contract trust and believe
NEGOTIATIONS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
1975 to 2022
GM auto worker pay of $6.25/hr adjusted for inflation would be $36.67.
BASICALLY THE SAME, except for tiers.
GM president Iacocca pay of $292K
adjusted for inflation would be $1.7M.
Mary Barra yearly compensation $29M
SEVENTEEN TIMES HIGHER!
According to Barra Math and my calculations the auto worker should be making $600 PER HOUR!
Expect a long strike in a few plants, and for a loss of 40% of jobs at 10% per year.
Never undersell the membership of the UAW! Ever!
Ford and the UAW negotiations are going good!
Proof?
Yeah I'll believe it when I see it honestly. I don't understand how any of these negotiations are going "well" from the company's side.
@@bdun1226 That's what Chuck has said.
@@Jamko1970 link?
Been a TPT at Stellantis for about 3 years now. It’s insane! TPTs should be rolled over to Full Time after 90 days MAX. This is pure robbery
I feel your pain brother.. I was a TPT at Louisville Assembly Plant for 3 1/2 years.. it took the 2019 contract to get hired.. hang in there brother it’s worth it.. Local 862 is behind you!
I started in 2012 at $15.78, 11 years later Stellantis is still paying TPT same wage. Let’s talk about labor abuse and exploitation! I’m ready to strike.
We HAVE to strike
Wow..i didnt know so little voted..i chalk it up to low moral..stellantis took away our ability to use our paa's to call off..it was our only way to call off for emergencies & be covered then the ceo has the nerve to complain about attendance..since they took this away mid contract isnt this a law suit for breach of contract?? Any lawyers judges out there please respond..
lets get REAL here, the WORKERS makes the money for the company PERIOD and past 50 years, the worker just took the abuse from the corporation without fighting back. Do you think that the "rich" will fight for us? NO we have to fight ourselves
Local 600 we stand behind our President on the demands of the members!
It is amazing that CEOs can make as much as they make not realizing that workers will eventually will revolt.
CEO has to lead 200,000 employees, lower level doesn't
Give UAW all it asks for? Enjoy your holiday Golden Goose dinner.
Sounds like senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont