Posted by Buzzman72 on May 04, 2009 at 12:03:58 from (74.129.192.160):
In Reply to: Re: Pure hogwash posted by JML755 on May 04, 2009 at 11:18:03:
I see that YOU can differentiate between UAW workers at the Big Three and UAW workers at the suppliers. A lot of folks lump us all together, when there are BIG differences in pay and benefits at the auto parts suppliers vs. what the workers at the Big Three get.
Yet a lot of folks are saying that if the suppliers go broke, it's no big deal...because the UAW workers at the suppliers are making $80 an hour like the Big Three workers, when that's DEFINITELY not the case. Because I was a UAW member, I was "supposedly" making $80 an hour and getting paid for NOT working...and it's just not the TRUTH.
And the TRUTH, as always, is the FIRST casualty in these battles. I just wanted to inject the TRUTH into this discussion that's turning into a bashing of ALL union workers, and ALL UAW members.
In the just-under 5 years I was at the frame plant [before they closed--I didn't quit, and I wasn't fired], the company had an annual attendance award of $500 for everyone who only used their allotted vacation and personal days, and had no unexcused absences. [And we could ONLY take vacation days during plant shutdown, at Christmastime and in July, so the company decided when we took our vacations.] I was eligible for the bonus four times. And I collected the bonus four times. So when I hear that crap about how those lazy union workers won't show up for work, it DOES get under my skin, because I know it's not the TRUTH.
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