GM Offer Gets the Cold Shoulder From UAW

More American workers employed right now. Wages rising because of a worker shortage. Fewer unemployed than there are job openings. Yet the UAW wants even more money, more benefits, more of everything and on top of that they want to be guaranteed a job for life. Something is not right here. Vote with your wallet. Vote with your feet. Buy from a non-union transplant.

@highdesertcat Not knowing what's inside a UAW members head, but I think their biggest concerns are preventing layoffs and that in the recession they gave up a lot on 2nd tier and temp workers. Now that GM's been highly profitable they feel those changes should be reversed. I can see the thinking honestly.

@mopar4wd I think you are right. Layoffs and job insecurity must be a huge thing to worry about for the UAW right now, what with robotics popping up in more and more factories, plants, and work environments. The future looks bleak for auto assembly workers because robots are not temperamental, don't do drugs or alcohol, don't smoke marijuana, don't need lengthy pee/smoke breaks, and robots are tireless, never lazy and never have a bad day. And robots require no costly health insurance. But if these UAW people are so unhappy with the pay and benefits, and employee discounts, why don't they just get another job, elsewhere, in another industry, like banking, investments, medicine, mining, etc? My grand daughter started full-time work this summer as a Mining Engineer with a BS degree from UTEP, age 22, starting salary $74K, plus bennies, FREE healthcare with Blue Cross of AZ, THREE weeks paid vacation, pay raises every six months for the first year, with annual pay raises after that, AND the option to buy shares in this public company. And I'm guessing much of the work she does in the Open Pit Mining field is more strenuous than that of auto assembly workers. I know I couldn't do it today. Then again, no commitments. Employees are free to quit anytime they're unhappy. Ditto UAW workers. Free to quit!