Big 3 UAW strike
The big 3 offered a package that included a 20% pay raise.
Unions walked out. Demanding 40% increase over 4 years.
I’ll watch it closely for sure.
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WAY BACK unions were a great necessity. As time went on the criminal element got really involved. Seems since that time unions have been very demanding and not reasonable to deal with🤔
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asop: 30061340379419/comments/30061332490779
WAY BACK unions were a great necessity. As time went on the criminal element got really involved. Seems since that time unions have been very demanding and not reasonable to deal with🤔
And very self serving.
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I grew up on the north side of Atlanta. Just down the road was the huge GM plant, GM Assembly Doraville. Must have had 8,000 employees, ran 24 and 7 putting those cars together. Half the students at my high school, Chamblee, had an uncle or father who worked there. Of course the plant was 100 percent UAW.
In 1986 I knew a guy who worked at the plant. Jeff was a rarity in those days, he was a computer expert. He worked 9 to 5, five days a week. He was an outside consultant and was about the only employee there who not in the UAW.
One day, Jeff told me that management had just installed two, 55 gallon drums at the main entrance. He said that the employees were out in the parking lot getting drunk at lunch, and they were throwing the empty Budweiser cans, and the empty pint bottles of Jack Daniels, onto the parking lot. Jeff said it really made a mess when someone ran over the glass bottle, and some guys were getting flat tires. Management would appreciate if they threw the empty booze containers into the 55 gallon drums.
I had heard stories of UAW abuse while I was in high school, but that the union would protect workers who got drunk was unimaginable. Jeff swore it was true.
In 2008, GM Assembly Doraville closed down. The gigantic building, and it covered 2 or 3-hundred acres, was bulldozed.
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Allen, never knew, good read. Sounds like the Ford Plant in Mawah. Some of the employee's use to work at the machine shop that I worked at to make ends meet during layoffs or strikes. One UAW worker in particular told my foreman he would not do production work because he was skilled labor. My foreman showed him the door. Mawah is long gone just like Doraville. -------------Ray
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I worked at Utility Trailer for about 5 years. #1 Tractor Trailer, Trailer in the USA. 5 plants, working full speed. (With a 6th one in Mexico up and running now.) They had more proposed Jobs/prospective Contracts than they could fill.
Very, very fast paced work environment. Tractor Trailer, Trailer assembly lines. We were expected to finish/complete (on average) 21 Trailers per shift. 2 lines, 3 shifts. 10,500 Trailers in one year at our plant. (Broke the record.)
Anyway, No Unions. Even mentioning one would get you "walked out." 2 Foreman walk you out in front of the entire line with all your tools and you are gone. Very difficult place to work. People would drop or "get walked out," like flies. They made it very clear every single day, "You don't like it here, leave. We get 30 applications a day." (And) They did, but people quit like crazy, once they saw what they had to do and fast they had to do it. They (Corporate) put on a very good "Show," about "Safety," but it was all show. When it came right down to it, it was all about Line Speed. It was running so fast, it was unsafe.
We would work 6 day shifts and "Hour early, Hour Late" endlessly. Burnt people out big time. Paid well, (but) Personally (and others as well) wanted a Home Life, not "Living to Work."
One OT Sat. A bunch of Welders were caught out in the Parking lot at lunch drinking. Big Brew Ha Ha, the whole line knew about it almost instantly. Almost anyone else would have been fired on the spot. (We had a lot of random Drug and Alcohol tests also.) Lot's of people got fired. Since the plant REALLY needed Welders, they were given a couple days off and all returned. The rest of us were pissed.
I filed a couple OSHA reports about some un-safe practices, had a big target on my back, from that day forward. It was only a matter of time. They moved me to the most difficult area/job of the Plant to work and I received "extra attention." I put up with it for about 2-3 weeks and finally went to HR and threatened to file suit, for "Retaliation for OSHA reporting un-safe issues." They about had a cow and put me back in my old job/area. (But) It was only a matter of time. They wanted me gone for being an intelligent "trouble maker."
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Here's some UAW boys at the Chrysler Plant in Detroit having a liquid lunch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmKyJXHXRE0 -
There is a liquor store near one of the plants here in Louisville and at one time it was supposedly the top selling retail outlet for half pints in the entire county.
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Some of my pals and I at work would joke that we could judge the state of the economy by the brand of empty booze bottles in the parking lot.
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The UAW demands are hilarious. 32 hr work week for 40 hr pay? LMAO.
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The jobs I have had, you wouldn't want a quart of beer at lunch. Loading 105 hay bales, 95 pounds each onto a flatbed truck, in Idaho, and then unloading at the barn. Two of us put a thousand a day in the barn. Twelve hour day.
Right down the road a few miles from where the UAW was tossing beer cans in the parking lot, in Atlanta, we were framing up a 3-story apartment building. You are walking that top plate, 3 1/2 inches wide, 30 feet off the ground, if you drank a quart of malt liquor at lunch you would get killed.
I guess you can get away with it in an auto plant.
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allen griggs: 30061340379419/comments/-1
The jobs I have had, you wouldn't want a quart of beer at lunch. Loading 105 hay bales, 95 pounds each onto a flatbed truck, in Idaho, and then unloading at the barn. Two of us put a thousand a day in the barn. Twelve hour day.
Right down the road a few miles from where the UAW was tossing beer cans in the parking lot, in Atlanta, we were framing up a 3-story apartment building. You are walking that top plate, 3 1/2 inches wide, 30 feet off the ground, if you drank a quart of malt liquor at lunch you would get killed.
I guess you can get away with it in an auto plant.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan - the birthplace of both GM and the UAW. Back in the early 70's an autoworker neighbor introduced me to a friend of his. This guy had his right arm in a cast and said it was work related and he was off on disability until it healed. Turns out he went to one of the many bars located near his particular plant, Fisher Body, and drank his lunch. He stumbled and fell going back to the plant and broke his arm. This got him a couple months off with pay thanks to the UAW. Bob
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I grew up in Peoria, IL. A few of my pals after HS gradation went to work for Pabst. They would tell me that it was perfectly OK to grab a bottle off the line and chug it. I guess it was pretty hot in the summer. Falling over was frowned upon though.
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cbxjeff-I dated a girl that worked at Hiram Walker WAY back!
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When we took trains over to Peoria out of Galesburg, the Hiram Walker plant was right across from the yard office. There were some really builds where they stored the barrels of bourbon. All gone now I believe.
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Good grief asop, what was her name? I might have dated her too! Many many years ago Peoria was a huge site of distilleries. I move away in 1958 never to go back except to visit family.
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