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Our car companies stopped being private enterprises during the Obama administration. These days they’re burning through billions of dollars following the government plan for replacing cars with EVs.
The UAW is in the driver’s seat because it elects the politicians who give car companies their marching orders. After turning down a mere 21% pay hike, the UAW wants a four-day work week.
Four days of work for five days of pay. That’s one of the demands made by the United Auto Workers in ongoing labor talks in Detroit.
A 32-hour workweek for 40 hours of pay, plus overtime.
Sure. Why not?
It’s not as if domestic automakers have any competition. Ford is already losing a fortune on every EV car, but this way it can make UAW employees not to make cars that no one wants to buy anyway.
It’s perfect.
Workers won’t make EVs. No one will buy the EVs. That’s Bidenomics in a nutshell and any mention of any resemblance to Soviet economics will get you gulaged, comrade.
Four days a week? I’d take that, not that I’ll ever get it.
It would be nice to have Fridays off.
Whoever down voted me sucks Taliban balls.
I was wondering about that. FPM should force people to attach their usernames to up-and down votes and make them visible.
Yeah, FPM should do that. This website has problems with it’s website providers or whatever they’re called though.
There are a lot of anti-Semites out there.
Down vote me again? Suck a dead man’s dick.
Jeff:
To be really fair, American workers should work the same number of hours that a CEO REALLY works. After taking away golf time on company time, unproductive meetings, attending parties for PR purposes, and being interviewed by the media on company time, I think a 24 hour workweek for 40 hours pay seems about right for all Americans. Now, you have to realize that half the workers would work Monday to Wednesday and the other half would work Wednesday to Friday. This way everyone would have four days off. Another problem solved.
Sounds good to me. 🙂
I used to work six to seven days a week and never took my vacation time.
No more. Fuck that shit.
How do you know how many hours a CEO works? Ass/u/me? How many nights? Weekends? Vacations? With the advent of technology there is seldom time away from work. The factory worker may not see it but the family of the CEO does. Stress? The factory worker has a bit, the CEO has responsibility of every factory worker, stockholder, customers wellbeing. Easy to be envious much more challenging to accomplish what the CEO does, if it’s so easy why aren’t you the CEO?
I never thought I’d say this but I think it’s time for me to buy my first foreign car. Cars here are so expensive and this is ridiculous. I’ve worked 45+ years and worked my way up the ladder. If I didn’t get a promotion, I moved on. I make a good living but would never demand this. This is a bridge too far. They get the best pensions, decent pay and working conditions, health care, etc. I think the unions are destroying this country and what’s left of the car market. Sad.
Well said. If you lazy buggers cant work a five friggin day week why dont u quit and let someone else who actually wants the job have it. I work 7 days a week 365 days a year and i think your a pussy if you cant handle a five day work week and id fire u all and start over. Thats a cush easy job and your bitchin. Maybe u should quit and start your own business and find out what real work is. Then u can take all the days off u want.
Detroit used to be the automaker’s capital of the world.
I grew up in Detroit. Auto workers typically believed, and we’re encouraged by the UAW to believe, that they were being paid less than just about everybody. They were constantly filled with a sense of grievance based on this belief. As a new attorney working, in part, on their divorce cases where I was privy to their earning statements, it was clear their perception was completely faulty. Most were making way more than me. But grievance and envy are powerful emotions that will drive them until they kill the host. I don’t let the car companies off the hook for some of their actions but, when Ford is being forced to make electric vehicles that few are buying and losing $39,000 per electric car sold, now might not be the best time to be demanding huge pay increases and fewer hours.
That’s what commies do, Kasandra!
The big 3 deserve everything coming to them, not breaking up the union ages ago. As is in keeping with much that Democrats do, the unions were a good idea at first, protecting workers from slave working conditions…but it didn’t stop there and it didn’t take long for union leaders to figure out how to enslave workers themselves and both weaponize and capitalize off the backs of those self-same workers. It’s no surprise that the mafia got involved with the unions in times past because leeching and bleeding a person was what they did best. Modern day union leaders just do it with more finesse than Jimmy Hoffa and they’ve hooked up with the kingpin leech: the Democrat Party.
I’m not sure they are doing anything now with a 5 day work week. We have had a Chevy Tahoe ordered since Feb 2022 and still nothing!
I bought ALL GM from 1964 until 2010 when Obama stole the GM bondholders money (including mine) and gave it to the UAW.. I now own a Toyota Tundra, Toyota Avalon, and Toyota RAV/4 .. They’ve all been great. I will NEVER EVER buy another UAW built car or truck.
Meanwhile some good friends in SC bought a Buick Enclave in 2019.. On a trip to New England its transmission crapped out in Vermont and the buick dealer said it had to be replaced., The failing transmissions were a COMMON problem on those buicks and so replacements were back ordered several weeks. So my friend and his wife had to pay for airfare back to SC, and then had to drive back to Vermont in their Chevy truck to pick up the Buick and drive both vehicles back home. (I wasn’t brave enough to ask if the power train warranty covered the repair).
“I bought ALL GM from 1964 until 2010 when Obama stole the GM bondholders money (including mine) and gave it to the UAW.”
The big three took all of the goodwill that Americans had toward their brands and just flushed it down the toilet. And when I say the big 3, I mean management and the unions. Nowhere in any of the UAW demands are improvements in vehicle quality, decreases in the cost of vehicles, or anything else that would benefit the American consumer. They just want more money for less work to keep making the garbage that they make.
I haven’t purchased “American” in a long time and have no intention of going back again. Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen, and Subaru ALL make better cars for the same or less money. If the UAW can’t even ask for some quality control as part of their demands, then they can go down with the ship for all I care.
Good post. I own a toyots truck and was thinking about a ford until they went all in on ev and phasing out gas cars. Toyota refuses to do that and my next truck will be another toyota. I will not support the uaw and their four day work week either. That is bull
Buy a Tesla. The local dealer has a lot full.
Cornering the market on stupidity, they seek handcuffs upon Adam Smith”s Invisible Hand.
The only thing they guarantee is tragedy.
When Biden says he wants “to finish the job”, I doubt not his sincerity.
The UAW also wants to increase their 30 days paid vacation a year, link their pay increases to the inflation their politicians are causing, and want some kind of change made in their pension plans Apparently, after obama bailed them out in ’09, at the expense of the secured creditors, the UAW blew their restored pension funds on woke investments and buying democrat party politicians. I hope these spoiled idiots negotiate themselves right out of a job. Then they can find out what it’s really like to work for a living.
Dad always said it was even money which would kill GM first, labor relations (the UAW), or the front office. They’re still neck and neck. They’ll keep bankrupting themselves as long as the government keeps bailing them out.
GM should have gone bankrupt and been dead during the Obama years. It never should have been bailed out. They make garbage that no one wants for too much money. Should have been allowed to fail so that something better could make use of those resources. Shame on Obama for bailing them out.
Figured the YUGO commercial was actually a joke. I fully expected to see the little commiemobile get stuck on a pile of rocks on a mountain trail or slowly sink in the desert sand spinning its wheels.
Sadly it appears it was not a joke. I don’t remember seeing it on TV. Does anyone else remember it? The YUGO seems to have gone the way of the Obamamobile ‘Smart Car’. I actually saw one of those relics yesterday puttering along.
I once got stuck in the desert spinning my wheels. No, twice. Once in Palm Springs on Roy Rogers Road and once at the headlands of the Mojave river.
Both times I was rescued by strangers with trucks.
Bwahahahaha! The Yugo commercial was great! The lady near the end was walking by a MARTA bus (Atlanta), which she’d use a lot if she bought a Yugo. One of my leftist high school teachers had one.
I loved that old parody song Rush L. used to play, “In A Yugo,” to the tune of “In the Ghetto,” Elvis’ version, about a young leftist couple that buys a Yugo and ends up squashed by a Semi.
In 2009, just as Bush was scurrying back to Texas and Obama was contaminating the White House, I bought a 2007 Cadillac XLR, with about 9K miles, at HALF PRICE.
Granted, they weren’t selling well, but half price? Something wasn’t going well at GM, but this car was fine. Also had extended bumper to bumper warranty from GM (if they were to be around to honor it). Still have it, now registered as a classic, and I take my wife out for Sunday drives. Total miles are less than 50K.
Timing is everything. Even conservatives win one every now and then.
UAW Union Rejects 21% Pay Hike, Demands 4 Day Work Week
A 32-hour workweek for 40 hours of pay, plus overtime.
SO WHAT? The mgmt of these companies have jacked up their compenstion packages 41%. The companies have raked in billions in profits resulting from jacking up car prizes 38%
AMERICAN CAPITALISM is entirely predicated on screwing the worker…. ergo open borders.
Things must change or we will ALL pay the price!
I am so happy that I have chosen not to purchase a UAW-produced car for most of my life. I can now continue the practice with much greater confidence.
WHY NOT A ONE DAY WORK WEEK FOR FORTY HOURS OF PAY? YOU IGNORANT FOOLS ARE NOT ONLY GOING TO SEND ALL CAR MANUFACTURING TO CHINA, YOU’LL LET THEM BUILD THEIR BATTERIES HERE AND NOT DEMAND UNION LABOR THERE WILL YOU FUCKING COWARDS!
Kill the caps.
It’s childish.
I was in the navy and stationed at Oceania VA. One of the younger guys in my squadron bought a Yugoslavia and was having trouble starting it . So , I went over to see if l could help and the first thing I noticed was that the spare tire was mounted directly on top of the carborator . WTF ! I then told him get that tire the he’ll off the carb , just throw the spare in the back . He dumped it a couple months later and ended up sorely in debt because of it .
4-days per week? That’s not enough. Why not emulate some French participants to recent rallies about age retirement who brandished signs saying: “We don’t care about retirement age – WE DON’T WANT TO WORK AT ALL”. And no, it was no joke, no provocation, the carriers of such signs were darn serious.
I was a shingle picker, a job that no longer exists, at Byrd & Sons, East Walpole, MA.
12 hours shifts at one of six workstations, three on each side of a sheet of 1 mile long felt paper, soaked in 445°F [ just below ignition temperature ] petroleum asphalt, showered with particuliarized slate, handing from roller supports twenty feet above the floor, as it cools, and creeps forward to the cutting knives mounted upon a circulator drum.
Stranding up straight, separating shingles into three groups of 7, 22 shingles to a bundle. As fast as possible. 12 hour shifts at $2.84 per hour.
All this is going to do is cause them to bring in more robots and move factories to china, india, mexico, etc. Then the unions will whine about that all those lost jobs and ask for a raise.
All this is going to do is cause them to bring in more robots and move factories to china, india, mexico, etc. Then the unions will whine about that all those lost jobs and ask for a raise.
The circle of stupidity:
1) Dems are forcing the changeover to E.V.’s
2) Auto makers will need less workers to make said E.V.’s
3) A good chunk of auto workers will be let go
4) Dem policies are the reason many auto workers will be let go
5) Auto workers will continue to vote for Dems
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
The 4 day workweek’s hidden additional cost is when production inevitably has to ramp up and workers can pick & choose what OT to work.
Time & a half day 5, double time day 6 and 7. That would double your weekly income in what would have been just 2.days.