[Chutzpah]

This article shows the workers at the Camaro plant....

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...46786187,d.eWE

[Number 3]

And that's nowhere near what the salaried employees will get.

[draph]

Originally Posted by Number 3

And that's nowhere near what the salaried employees will get.

Yep, I don't work in the auto industry, but I've become convinced there's a new sub-class of worker getting hosed in corporate America: the working level white collar professional. Where I work, middle managers and up get 15% and up bonus if the company makes bookings, sales, and earnings goals, which drives behavior to take advantage of exempt white collar working level people through "lean staffing" and lots of unpaid overtime so technical service contracts can be bid under the real labor hours that it takes to complete a job. ...and fewer white collar workers working more unpaid OT means fewer people requiring fringe benefits like paid time off and healthcare. If the economy takes off, those folks will take off as well, hopefully reducing this corrupted corporate behavior. If it doesn't, I know where the Teamsters and UAW can go to increase their roles; but the dues have to provide good cost/benefit...IE someone might give up a few percent of their salary for dues if union leverage can forge a working level salaried worker contract to cap how often and for how many continuous weeks a salaried person can be required to work more than 45-50 hours/week.

[Fraxum]

Originally Posted by draph

Yep, I don't work in the auto industry, but I've become convinced there's a new sub-class of worker getting hosed in corporate America: the working level white collar professional. Where I work, middle managers and up get 15% and up bonus if the company makes bookings, sales, and earnings goals, which drives behavior to take advantage of exempt white collar working level people through "lean staffing" and lots of unpaid overtime so technical service contracts can be bid under the real labor hours that it takes to complete a job. ...and fewer white collar workers working more unpaid OT means fewer people requiring fringe benefits like paid time off and healthcare. If the economy takes off, those folks will take off as well, hopefully reducing this corrupted corporate behavior. If it doesn't, I know where the Teamsters and UAW can go to increase their roles; but the dues have to provide good cost/benefit...IE someone might give up a few percent of their salary for dues if union leverage can forge a working level salaried worker contract to cap how often and for how many continuous weeks a salaried person can be required to work more than 45-50 hours/week.

Happy to see GM employees getting a nice bonus!

But Draph, you are right, for profit companies will squeeze all workers they can for those at the top and share holders to benefit in a big from the hard work. That is the way capitlalism works. The anger you are expressing has been noticed by the 1% upper class. So they are building moutain hide aways and luxury condos in missle silos stocked with guns and provisions for when the pitch forks come.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...the-super-rich

The middle class is disappearing and those at the bottom suffer the most. Wall Street, corporations, and the super rich own our political system. None of this is changing any time soon. Political campaigns are full of empty promises.

[draph]

Originally Posted by Fraxum

Happy to see GM employees getting a nice bonus!

But Draph, you are right, for profit companies will squeeze all workers they can for those at the top and share holders to benefit in a big from the hard work. That is the way capitlalism works. The anger you are expressing has been noticed by the 1% upper class. So they are building moutain hide aways and luxury condos in missle silos stocked with guns and provisions for when the pitch forks come.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...the-super-rich

The middle class is disappearing and those at the bottom suffer the most. Wall Street, corporations, and the super rich own our political system. None of this is changing any time soon. Political campaigns are full of empty promises.

More disappointment than anger. Capitalism is still the best system for progress; but left unfettered without a strong, shared morality, it will destroy society just as badly as any socialist or communist system...the end result's the same - the elitist class hosing everyone else. ...and don't let me imply union leadership is more moral than corporate leadership as they negotiate deals "on behalf of the workers" while they collect very nice wages and fringe benefits for themselves.