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For Auto Workers, It Isn’t Just About Pay

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Worklife balance is now at the center of negotiations between UAW speaking for 150,000 autoworkers and Stellantis, Ford, GM. During the pandemic with mandatory overtime and working upto 6 days week, 10 hours a day, for product launches for many factory workers, meant a detrimental impact on personal health. A shorter workweek is proposed.


America has forgotten it is American workers who built America

09/28/2023

Entry level tier wages for auto workers at $17 an hour in 2022 as the UAW union goes on strike in 2023. At $34,000 a year entry level young auto workers make less than the $35,000- 40,000 a year for families set as the Federal Poverty Level by the Department of HHS. Lincoln and TR-FDR would see this as outrageous as American workers built American factories and America since the Industrial Revolution. America has forgotten its workers and worker's families, worker's children. Two thirds of children with the vast majority from the workers families not able to pass ACT reading comprehension at the 4th grade, and 50 % of retired people having zero savings. Not the America of Lincoln or TR-FDR.

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