Parts and service workers say the recent Fiat Chrysler Automobiles-United Auto Workers contract has created an unfair, lower paying tier and are airing their uncertainty, the Detroit News reported.
Under the proposed contract, Mopar parts distribution center workers and axle operation workers top out at $22 and $22.35 respectively — less than the Tier 1 and Tier 2 pay raises up to $30 and $25 per hour respectively.
“They created a third tier,” Lamont Carr, a Local 1248 worker, told the Detroit News.
Union president Dennis Williams refuted the claim, saying the contract spelled out how the lower paid workers could move up to higher paying tiers by applying for those jobs.
“They’re not stuck. They’re not dead-end,” Williams told the Detroit News. “A tier system is when you don’t have a path. That is a tier system.”
The Mopar workers are eligible for the $3,000 ratification bonus, however. In 2011, those workers were only offered $1,750 to approve the new contract.
The contract would narrow the pay gap between veteran Tier 1 workers and newer-hired Tier 2 workers, (which comprise 45 percent of FCA’s union workforce), create a health-care co-op to corral costs and offer a profit sharing program, among other things.
Critics have said that the contract falls short of offering Tier 1 workers inflation-adjusted wages from their 2007 contract.
In the deal, FCA would move all car production to Mexico and the Ram 1500’s assembly would move from Mexico to Sterling Heights.
Best unrelated stock photo ever. Not even sure what this article is about.
Who let Bertel back at the controls?
Not that I’m complaining…
It’s a sign of the low wages. That poor girl can’t even afford a jacket or a bra.
Implants are covered under the new “Health-care co-op” agreement but they had to settle for a lesser clothing allowance.
“Parts and service workers say ”
I assumed she was a “service worker”, or whatever the current euphemism is.
@DeeDub – “sex trade worker” is the PC term nowadays.
She’d be way hot in a ripped up T shirt and gym shorts, on the way to the beach, in my Viper. Hair in a ponytail, wind whipping off the ocean… I’ll stop now.
Wait, I don’t have a Viper…
I bet her car steers better when she has a pinion.
It’s the breast photo that I’ve seen!
Knees are too pointy
“FCA would move all car production to Mexico”
Predictable, but preventable.
I’m sure FCA is perfectly willing to let the UAW sort out the Tier system internally.
My guess is, the UAW is lucky to get what they got from Sergio. Sergio could very easily have kept truck production in Mexico, and move all car production there as well.
Hence the ratification bonus to bribe the workers to take the deal and remain employed.
It’s all about the dues…..
From the photo I assume that they mean to prove that when two entities come together,everyone is happier for it!
When worlds collide.
“Hello, boys, I’ve missed you”.
I dunno, her eyes say something more like “20 minutes ’til break…”
No, it’s a line from Blazing Saddles, Gov. LePetomaine addressing his lingerie-clad secretary’s generous bosom. It’s the first thing I often think of when I see attractively presented cleavage.
It’s Twue! It’s Twue!
And she’s got….great tracts of laand…..
Bbbut father, I want to siiiing!
HOMER: “Do you come with the car?”
MODEL: “Oh, you! Te-he-he-he!”
Anytime you can get breasts and a Mopar sign in the same picture you have to roll with it.
Feel free to keep randomly inserting pictures of perkily endowed women.
“Mopar parts distribution center workers”
Well you can make 22 bucks an hour there, or head to Amazon et al and get about half that for similar work.
Girl, clean that crap off your face, put some clothes on and get back in school!
But first, is your mom around?
As much as I like the accompanying image, that should have been marked NSFW and been below the fold (centerfold, in this case!).
Eh, if you’re at work nothing should be safe other than work anyway.
Saw that pic and automatically assumed the article was about airbags .
SnarkyRichard – too perky to be another Takata story
I need a hooter relay….horn, horn relay, a breast booster, brake, brake booster, a replacement D cup, cup holder, cup holder I mean. Really nice headlights…
Breast booster? I’ll take ten!
thanks for keeping us uh, abreast of the new contract….
I see a couple of “out standing issues”, that might need a second. look.
I see at least two that I’d like to take a closer look at.
Looks like she got hit in the face with the ‘makeup shotgun’… with the fire selector at ‘whore’.
Still, this is a great thing to see early at work. My work is at least ok with this.
Now back to your scheduled Volkswagen coverage.
Nothing like a large set of poorly concealed hooters to bring the left and right together………. um…….. that can be taken more than one way ;)
What does she assemble?
I think the photo is quite appropriate. The woman is clearly a metaphor for the $3k signing bonus. They eye candy catches your attention, so you overlook what’s really going on.
I think I would rather have the woman in lieu of the signing bonus.