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. 👍😉

                    Bravopilot Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

                    I'm not retiring until some employee approaches my boss and asks who the senile old man in the corner cube is that keeps mumbling that Reagan would bomb them into a new time zone. 🤪

                        propman I guess it is.

                        But this morning I'm feeling a bit ashamed that I even spoke out about/against all this striking deal.
                        I just watched an interview with a Ford employee from the factory that is out. She stated she could make the same money at a fast food restaurant, and they were all 'suffering'.....the strikers after just 3 days.

                        I guess having walked away from my $16/hr. job( no pension/no benefits) I just never realized how bad some people working in big factories lives are. And how lucky I was to make such enormous wages.

                        I'm also glad that Joey has jumped in to help the downtrodden, as it is his job.

                        GMAFB