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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
These guys never learn. The UAW is probably the last dinosaur of a union that will never wake up and smell the coffee.
They had 8,000 workers at GE, Cincinnati, OH making jet engines in the height of the '80s. Right now, GE is building far more engines per day than the previous heyday. But, guess what........the 8,000 workers are down to about 800 and the work is being done by non-union technicians in Durham, NC who are paid more than the dinosaurs. GE currently builds an engine at 50% of the cost of the previous UAW labor in Cincinnati. Why? Because they get 8 hours work from a technician...........they got about 4 hours work........maximum..........from the union.
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Since this is home base for the UAW I met and know many UAW "Big Shots" they usually have no formal education and from what I am told by people on both sides of the UAW fence they sucked at their jobs so they climbed the UAW ladder. Here is the good part; many are paid by GM to do UAW activities and they are paid double what the people doing the actual work. The UAW is in so much trouble that they are trying to gobble up health care workers.