Typhoon If the plants stay closed Bruce Springsteen will write a song about it.

Or Billy Joel.

      propman In the long run, they will be farther behind that CEO pay, if they strike.
      $30/hr. x 40= $1200/wk.

      Strike lasts 8 weeks= $9600 lost wages
      Strikers win the 9% raise they 'need'.
      $2.70/hr/ x 40=$108/wk. x 52wks.=$5616.
      Almost 2 years to get back to even!!!

      Take the damn 5% and be ahead, idiots.

      Either way, the price of new vehicles will go up 12%.
      You will never beat the company.

          Avg price of a car is supposedly $48,000. A uaw worker ( on high end) makes $6x,xxx.

            johnnydoom Price a new John Deere combine!!! Or even just a tractor. Those guys make less than $30. And the company has billions in profit. Every quarter!!

              propman Noticed yesterday the fella across the street got a new pickup. Has a motorcycle, a newish Mustang(never drives), wife has a car, they live in FL in the winter now. (retired)
              He was a school teacher. iirc, a lower paid band instructor.

              UAW gotta have $50/hr. just to make ends meet!!

              Fella about 3 blocks from has a few JD tractors in his garage. 😄

                  Par4QC You will never beat the company.

                  Sad, but true. Free enterprise.

                    Par4QC likes living in a material world. Whatever makes people happy.
                    It's almost like the little league trophy one got. Nice to look at, not much else, imo.

                      Strike lasts too long companies will just open up some shuttered facility in Mexico and ramp up…CEO will still have his mansion and the UAW can fight over who mows his lawn…Has anyone looked to see how many cars/trucks are sitting around waiting to be shipped??? Some models have 100+ days of inventory sitting on lots not shipped. Auto companies are not stupid…they built up a large inventory for this. They won’t have to shut down and pay workers to do nothing, they will just them strike and let the union deplete their funds on strike “pay”…

                      Par4QC
                      That can be done on a modest income if you handle your retirement investments right.

                          Other than a slow starting Georgia team, the SEC kind of looks like garbage so far this year.

                            Ask most UAW people walking the picket line details of what they are striking for and most don't have a clue just that the union told them to.

                              Bravopilot Maybe, hard to agree on "modest income". Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

                              Depends on lifestyle choices. You're smart enough to know what you can afford. 👍😉