First and foremost, where's the Solidarity? Solidarity is the Fucking UAW's motto. Hell, it's the name of their magazine! I live just south of Louisville, KY which host a nice big Ford plant. They build trucks there and get parts from all over to assemble there. Thirty minutes away is another UAW Unionized plant that provides parts for the Ford plant. Same union, two different plants. Both plants are assembly, they make some shit there but not like every nut and bolt, they both get parts from all over and in the end there is a F-150 at the dealership.
Here's the issue, I know this guy that works at the second plant and here's the difference. About $15.00 on the hour! Where's the Solidarity UAW? What about profit sharing checks that are $400.00 a year compared to $7000.00 a year. Where's the Solidarity UAW? One plant gets short week pay the other does not. Where's the Solidarity UAW? If that main plant shut down due to the Derby or a U of L football game or the Final Four the other plants don't work and they don't have short week pay. Where's the Solidarity UAW? How is that protecting your workers? Your members pay you for your protection, where is it? You just increased their dues by 25% yes a 25% increase in dues in order to increase the Strike fund but this other plant has a no strike clause that you (THE UAW) put in the contract!!! So this June or July when the main plant strikes, you know because they have benefits, it will shut down the others and the others don't have the bene's. Where's the Solidarity UAW? How can one union, different locals but the same union, have a cost of living bonus in one plant yet another plant a half mile away doesn't? Where's the solidarity UAW?
Here's the kicker with Solidarity, this guy I know works for the "other" plant but still has been a UAW member for three years. And BTW not making the 39 bucks an hours that the UAW boast of average wages. Ok, more like the mid teens!! Also up until last June the UAW collected dues that a portion of which went to produce and publish and automatically mail to it's members the "Solidarity" magazine. He has never received a copy, nor to my knowledge anyone that he works with. Where's the money going? If you dig you can find it.
I don't get to read most of this stuff on the message board that he is part of, but from what I hear is a bunch of babies crying about having to work a Sunday once every three months or so.... Now let's go back a little and say 40 bucks at time and a half = 60 bucks. If it's a Sunday or holiday then it's dbl time which is 80 bucks plus your holiday pay, makes it 120 dollars an hour and people are complaining about it. When it's all said and done that new truck cost you forty grand, you now know why!!! But seriously, this guy has been to both plants and it's the same, piles of dirt at the end of the shift, nobody stocking for the next guy, shit like well the computer screen says that's not in the sequence to do my job therefore I don't have to do it.
Again, Bottom line is Unions Suck! They don't do a thing but make American jobs go south or over seas. That's just a FACT. The Jobs that they do have here increase the cost of everything that you buy, and for what reason? So, some Fat Bastard can make a couple of hundred grand a year off of your sweat? So he can spend 40 million of YOUR hard earned dollars in ONE WEEKEND??? Wake The Fuck Up People!!!!
