CAW- Next Contract

.... as far as a bailout - or better yet "handout" - I would do it the way that Pres. Reagan did it when air traffic controllers threatened to strike - he simply told them to go ahead - and if they did, they would be replaced!

In any bailout or handout re: the Auto Sector the agreement should be short and simple :

- Here's your new agreement - and it is non-unionized - and your pay rate is set at $ 16.00 per hour. Take it or leave it - if you leave it - the next person in line will take it!
 
Paid for value...?

The world in general is completely screwed up when it comes to fair compensation...

An uneducated line worker can make what - $48/hr??

A sports player makes MILLIONS for playing a fu*king game...

A bank makes BILLIONS for using OUR money and charging us for the 'privilidge'...

A CEO makes a million dollar bonus as the company goes bust...

Yet the really important jobs - life saving / altering jobs...

A cop, a doctor, a teacher... and probably the MOST underpaid - a soldier.

Where is the logic?
 
What the CAW needs to remember is that before you make non-negotiable demands you have to be willing to loose the job.

For most of their line workers it is a very good question what job they would would find that would pay nearly as well without getting extensive further education.
 
Aardvark154 said:
What the CAW needs to remember is that before you make non-negotiable demands you have to be willing to loose the job.

For most of their line workers it is a very good question what job they would would find that would pay nearly as well without getting extensive further education.

That's easy: they could go work for the TTC......
 
Speaking of the TTC, frankly I think a bus or subway driver is more deserving of a high union scale than a guy putting wheels on a chevy. I mean, the heaviest thing they have to lift is their wiener at break time. At least a bus driver/subway driver has to have SOME skill and responsibility....