I’m totally for organizing the automobile plants. The workers need to know that the UAW doesn’t provide any retirement, nor medical insurance to retirees.
I watched our local president blatantly breach our contract. Teaming up with management to reinterpret the language of our contract. This action would have benefited a small number of employees, throwing the majority under the bus. The proposed new interpretation was contested, and shut down. However, the next contract had the new language in it that appeased the maintenance staff, but threw the majority under the bus. The union members assumed that the leaders are looking out for their best interest. Wrong.
Every member needs to know the contract, bylaws, and constitution as well as the elected leaders. Never assume that the local leaders are acting in the members best interest.
The UAW blatantly discriminated against its own members at the Daimler plant where local # 5285 is supposed to be the bargaining unit. Very few grievances are filed on behalf of the members.
I witnessed the UAW teamed up with management to determine a members value to the company. If they didn’t show value, they weren’t shown the representation that every member was due. Heartbreaking.
The UAW that represents all of the Daimler plants in N.C. joined up with Daimler a few contracts back to start an employee profit sharing.
I could never accept a contract that included profit sharing. Profits could take precedence over the bargaining unit’s responsibilities to its members.
Have to look at the UAW’s mission ,and the reason they were voted in to represent the the members. The UAW was already allowing decisions that favored management when I retired in 2015. It was heartbreaking. Some of the current international leaders was a huge part of the decaying UAW at the Daimler plants c
The sample needs to be bigger as far as statistical confidence level (I think…it’s been a long time but I don’t think a 500 sample size is big enough to power a 95% confidence level.)
As with the Teamsters, the UAW make concessions after the 2008 economic downturn. The UAW told its members at all of the Daimler plants that they were getting out of the insurance business. No one hired after that contract had any health insurance, nor pensions upon retirement.
I’m totally for organizing the automobile plants. The workers need to know that the UAW doesn’t provide any retirement, nor medical insurance to retirees.
I would think they understand that benefits are items of negotiation with the auto manufacturer.
I watched our local president blatantly breach our contract. Teaming up with management to reinterpret the language of our contract. This action would have benefited a small number of employees, throwing the majority under the bus. The proposed new interpretation was contested, and shut down. However, the next contract had the new language in it that appeased the maintenance staff, but threw the majority under the bus. The union members assumed that the leaders are looking out for their best interest. Wrong.
Every member needs to know the contract, bylaws, and constitution as well as the elected leaders. Never assume that the local leaders are acting in the members best interest.
The UAW blatantly discriminated against its own members at the Daimler plant where local # 5285 is supposed to be the bargaining unit. Very few grievances are filed on behalf of the members.
I witnessed the UAW teamed up with management to determine a members value to the company. If they didn’t show value, they weren’t shown the representation that every member was due. Heartbreaking.
The UAW that represents all of the Daimler plants in N.C. joined up with Daimler a few contracts back to start an employee profit sharing.
I could never accept a contract that included profit sharing. Profits could take precedence over the bargaining unit’s responsibilities to its members.
Have to look at the UAW’s mission ,and the reason they were voted in to represent the the members. The UAW was already allowing decisions that favored management when I retired in 2015. It was heartbreaking. Some of the current international leaders was a huge part of the decaying UAW at the Daimler plants c
The sample needs to be bigger as far as statistical confidence level (I think…it’s been a long time but I don’t think a 500 sample size is big enough to power a 95% confidence level.)
As with the Teamsters, the UAW make concessions after the 2008 economic downturn. The UAW told its members at all of the Daimler plants that they were getting out of the insurance business. No one hired after that contract had any health insurance, nor pensions upon retirement.
Hopefully they won’t make that mistake again