At the railroad I worked at (retired now with a good pension) you started at 75% of the regular pay rate. Then every year you'd get an increase of 5 percent until you reached full pay five years later. Your medical insurance had no restrictions for new employees. This is nuts for these part time auto workers. I wish them all the best in their quest for better pay, benefits and days off as they certainly earned it.
Maybe mention to your congress leaders to legalize general strikes so that your solidarity is legal to go beyond mere words. I honestly wish there was more to do but frankly it's either that or go burn down a billionaire's mansion.
@@luisvilla799 I've had my share of layoffs, and I was once fired from one of the two railroads I was employed by. It was the union that got me back working with backpay after I was "canned."
Dang, we need Congress to put some worker’s rights into law, this is just obvious corporate manipulation of labor regulations to try to legalize wage theft.
@@TheMysteryDriverWell, or forgetting the lobby and instead just fucking shit up. When the cogs stop turning, they notice. When they attack us, we fight back. Stand in solidarity to those who fight back, and we might change politics.
I agree but we also need to consider state level laws. Ford and GM are in Michigan so they don't get away with this shit but Ford is building Blue Oval City in TN and their electrical plant in KY due to the weak state laws on worker rights.
It is abusive. It leads to dysfunction. A 50 year old contract employee has very little chance of getting papers. Pretty young girls have no trouble. I would never run a company that way. There is no more effective way to destroy the precious intangible, which is people who care about what they are doing.
Be careful, the economy is falling apart. They may just move to Mexico. They pay $10 an hour there for labor that is on par with the us if not better. They likely will deal with a lot less nonsense like lawsuits, etc
Collectively, and with solidarity, we could do more than bargain, we could have representation that actually represents us from our politicians who usually only serve their own interests and the interests of the ultra wealthy. We could also have a firm grasp of control on the power dynamic between exploited workers and those at the top that siphon off most of what the workers generate, that power imbalance has been wildly out of balance for way too long ❤ ✊️
RECORD PROFITS = RECORD CONTRACTS END TIERS BRING BACK COLA END 'SUPPLEMENTAL TEMPS' WHICH ACTUALLY MEANS FULL-TIME BUT UNDERPAID AND UNDERVALUED WORKERS!! 😤😤😤😤 In solidarity with all Workers ❤️
Back before Reagan the people who make the BIG money wrung out of labor today used to be hit with a 73% tax on multimillion dollar annual incomes. It wasn't worth cheating the worker, customer or to ship jobs overseas until Reagan brought Trickldown in. Tax these greedy SOBs like we used to and watch how fast wages come up and prices go down...
Tell that investment banking analysts that work 80 to 110 hours a week and that's despite the trade off being starting six figure salary and a generous bonus but the burn out is real
When they quit or take leave or a long holiday and face their real burnout they have a decent cushion built up - or at least the chance of it- *these factory workers are NOT comparable because their wages are TOO LOW.* @@ricklopez8431
I'm glad these people generally love their jobs and are PROUD of the product they produce. BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE HELD AGAINST THEM! Whether they LOVE it, or simply LIKE it, they're ENTITLED to a FAIR, LIVEABLE wage for 40 h/week! Make it happen UAW, do right by every Worker. ❤🙏
Yep, this crap happens a LOT in the entertainment and games industry and they have gotten away with it for years simply because the workers love the games they are working on.
Lol. Seems like these workers have chosen to be exploited. Anybody with a lick of common sense would have quit, and got another job… I mean listen to those “stories” again. We are a free country. Nobody is forcing them to do this job.
Instead of asking what economic impact a couple of months of striking could mean, why don't we ask ourselves what DECADES of AWFUL TREATMENT AND EXPLOITING OF WORKERS by INCREDIBLY GREEDY CORPORATIONS causes!?? 😤😤 THESE QUESTIONS ARE ALL WRONG AND IT'S BY DESIGN. BE BETTER, MEDIA!! 😤😤😤😤
You must realize by now. The 1% own the media, they own the government. They always demonize the workers as greedy. But the billionaires, stealing is just business as usual
This is currently happening at my factory job. There is a number of my fellow coworkers whom been working at this factory, that have been here for anywhere from 6-11 months being with a temp agency, that none of us have been hired on as full-time employees, even though we're working full time hours.
How can you be a "temp" employee for 5+ years?! This should be illegal. All workers should get the same pay and benefits regardless of being temp or not and temp employment should be no more than like 2% of the workforce and for no longer than like 3 months.
@@sirsneakybeaky I've found satisfaction in every job I've had, except production. Finishing a job and stepping back looking at it as a whole is a good feeling. You don't get that with production. At least I didn't get that with production. The next day was literally the exact same thing. I was a literal robot. If I knew how to work with electronics I could've written a program to replace myself. All of the jobs I've found satisfaction in will be some of the last to be replaced by robots. Doing the exact same task in the exact same position is far from rewarding. Those positions will be the first to go when AI & robotics are cheap enough. I only made it 3 months into my production job. When it was time for my review I was offered an internal position instead of the temp agency. I declined and gave her my two weeks. Production is the lowest form of _skilled_ labor there is. You can teach someone nearly everything about their position in one shift. Production work is some of the physically easiest work I've ever done. However mentally, it was the most challenging for me. I am not knocking production workers as it takes a special mindset to do that kind of work. I'd rather get kicked by cows and work in manure for less pay than work a production job.
I have been in the Toledo Jeep plant many times over the years and remember when the temp hires were brought in. I believe their starting pay was around $14 an hour. These guys are getting the shaft, because as was stated, these guys are worked liked dogs.
In South Africa, we have a law that if a worker works more than 32 hours a week over a year, they are considered permanent employees. I am sure the poor quality of Jeep products in recent years is a reflection of an abused workforce.
I agree to a point, the quality of parts and where they are sourced is a big issue but there is also a quality issue with the construction, im all for workers rights and im aware of how corporate management works but i have never and will never buy any car made in america, its strictly toyota or honda for our whole family.
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-Dead A big part of that was they were feeding the greed that was just starting to circumvent the old top Marginal income tax that had *forced* the rich to share the proceeds of capitalism or they'd pay extremely painful tax rates on the obscene profit they take now while paying a lower tax rate than you do even after Biden got it increased to 25% from the 3% it was at since Reagan. It was 73% when Reagan ripped it out for the 3% of Trickledown. It was as high as 90% right after WW2. The point was never to pay 73% or 90% but to make it too expensive for them to take that money in the first place. This is what kept wage inequality low and living wages high while *quality* was high and inflation low. No price gouging since it simply wasn't worth it. But there were always tax loopholes for those with no company to reinvest in or who got huge payouts from things like stock options; in these cases they could drop a few tax brackets by donating half the total above the income for the top rate. Mostly to non profit colleges and hospitals. So on top of much better wages AND lower costs for goods and services college and healthcare were subsidized for the Boomers now calling these kids lazy. Large companies generally didn't money grub with employees or customers because it wouldn't have made the people making those choices another dime anyway. Otherwise they would. But by the 1970s the One Percent had lobbied for more loopholes, enough to keep more money than ever since FDR and the start if the New Deal. This increased the incentives for those decision makers to rip us all off a bit more. Thats why quality and warranties started dropping. What was worse they even managed to get tax credits for funding the BS think tanks and conservative schools that manufactured Trickldown to eventually set them completely free to offshore every job not nailed down and still keep at least 97% of the money after taxes while driving down the cost of American labor to the point we'd have to compete for their crumbs. Oh and those billionaires went from subsidizing affordable college and healthcare to turning these institutions into their own personal ATMs to drain the middle class dry. Btw, the moment of the big turnaround and it's aftermath imposing _"New Fiscal Realities"_ is the setting of the old TV drama St. Elsewhere... it never needed to happen. The greedy billionaires just wanted to have even more than having the most and they made it happen. We will never get a fair share much less get the money out politics or tackle climate change if we don't start by reinstating the old putative top income tax rate of 70% or even 90% on multimillion annual incomes, forcing the money the One Percent will otherwise take back into growing the economy and middle class.
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-Dead GM is quite interesting to study. Ford, an ol' farm boy, wanted people buying a Ford and keeping it going as long as they liked. He was serious about "you can have it any color you like as long as it's black" (and chose that color because it was the cheapest/toughest, being used on things like wagons etc.) and GM came in with the ever-changing "model year" and a large palette of colors, and most importantly, *FINANCING* in fact a decade or two ago GM was being called "a finance company that builds some cars".
Absolutely. But the hayday of the middle class and of this country came *after* we started using prohibitively high top income tax brackets to set a limit on how much the very wealthy could actually pay out to themselves. That ended under Reagan and the middle class has sunk as the Very Rich take more and more. It's not coincidence.
@@jakekaywell5972 i suddenly remembered the article and news report of people being forced at gunpoint to work for jeep. Oh wait never happened In the United States, you have 12 years of mandatory free education, where every single day they are preparing you for life working as an adult. Some people use this as preparation for adult life. Others choose to clown around, find themselves and party. The latter find themselves blaming others and complaining when they have zero skills to offer. I have zero fucks to give about them. Statistics show that Africans, Asians and Hispanics entering the United States work harder and achieve more than natural born citizens. It’s an issue of entitlement and laziness. Don’t like your job? Try harder and find a new one.
I worked at the Wrangler plant from 2006-2012. I went from $12-$18hr and worked 60ish hours a week to make a decent living. I left after graduating college. I remember coming back to visit in like 2015, they actually were paying new hires at that time only $10. To give an example of how egregious this is, In 2009 Wrangler was starting at 23k and now the Wrangler starts at 32k. The average employee cannot afford these cars or anything unless they work crazy hours. I missed so many milestones because this job, pay these ppl what they deserve!
This isn't an issue of workers not wanting to work. It's an issue of GREED! Large corporations that make millions in profit off their employees on the production floor not willing to pay a living wage! 🤯 Stand together UAW Stand strong and stay your course. You deserve better.
I would suggest they contact every Jeep club across the US they can and ask for a letter in solidarity with UAW and temp workers. I'll be bringing this up to my club ASAP.
My daughter has been TPT at Jeep for 3 years. I knew she was getting screwed over, but she never told me it was this bad. I hate what it means for her and her family if they go on strike, but she has family to lean on. My heart breaks for those who don't. Maybe Stellantis will surprise us...pfft
I was a "temp" for five years working IT for the State. Before and after that, I was a temp for multiple insurance companies for 1-2 years each. The only reason I had health insurance was because of Obamacare. I was on food stamps for part of that time. No sick leave, two days berevement max. One of my co-workers DIED because he could not afford to take time off work. When I was at the State, they "restructured" and a lot of the FTEs had their salaries cut. The salaries were posted online. The guy next to me kept complaining until I told him, while I had SOME sympathy, he was STILL making over twice what I was for the same job.
The union should never have let this happen to begin with. Unions are becoming a thing of the past. These used to be the jobs everyone wanted. These products are very expensive and they can do better. I pray the company will do them right. My husband retired from Chrysler, and back then, the wages were good, along with good benefits.
Labor cost of a new vehicle today (union made) is right around 5.1-5.3% of the total cost...so it's not labor that makes the vehicles so expensive...it's materials
You said, "Unions are becoming a thing of the past". Where have you been getting your information from, Fox NEWS?! Starbucks is seeing dozens of locations unionize. Amazon workers are unionizing. This was unthinkable 10 years ago.
My job in the software industry was extremely similar, minus the medical crashing. I worked as a contractor for Microsoft for nearly 12 years. The year I started was the year they went to court over contractors being paid less but doing the same jobs and being treated exactly the same as the full-timers. The court case just made Microsoft limit their contracts to a year with a mandatory 100-day lay-off. Basically, I had to reapply every year and never build up any seniority.
There are tons of non-Union companies who treat their temp workers way better, and where full time benefits are only a couple years down the road. IF this is where we're at, time to ask the question "What is the union doing for me?"
By definition temporary should be temporary. Over 12 months, they aren't temporary. Period. Good on the union for bargaining on their behalf. United we stand, divided we fall.
Educate or learn a trade so you no longer have to be the underclass base labor. Do for yourself rather than expecting someone else to see you.... be in control of your own
Honestly, this isn't just the companies, it's the union heads as well. They had to agree to this situation for it to go into effect; They also could have just said no and made the company suffer on the market. Unfortunately, as we learned with the UPS negotiations, they're more concerned about building a profitable relationship with the company, than they are about protecting their own. That needs to change.
You can thank companies like Aerotek, Kelly, Onboard Services and many many others for facilitating such cheap labor as they basically bid on you as cheap temp workers and allow these companies to give you nothing for years and years.
Idea: investigate TEMU's operations in the States, ive been giving them the side eye to see if they really only exploit their workers in their home country
I used to work for Chrysler suppliers. I've sat in meetings with Chrysler management back in the early 2010s and they were hands down the absolute most arrogant and slimy human beings I'd ever met in my life. Every single career auto worker I've ever met has told me that Ford and GM at their worst are better than Chrysler ever was, even at their best. It was actually going to Toledo during the Cherokee wind down there that convinced me to never work for another automaker ever again.
You know things are rigged when you can't afford to buy the product you're building. 😆 I remember a time UAW workers were making way more than $17 or $30 per hour adjusted for inflation. My father was a Teamster and drove for Elio's Pizza out of Lodi, NJ before they got bought out by McCain Foods. This is early 80s, he was making $17/hr plus full health benefits. At least we know who's holding all the money, just Google your local billionaire, turn him upsidedown and shake out his pockets.
Thank you for this channel. I love hearing about these stories of how workers are fighting back all over the US against just disgraceful exploitation. 100% support to these proud and dignified workers ready to strike for their collective futures. 💛✊
For everyone praising UAW you need to remember they allowed this to be written in the contract. Plus the members voted for it they helped create the issue.
Because the companies were on the brink of non existence!!! The union was in bed with the company so yeah people wanted to keep their jobs!!! The UAW made concessions, now in good times WE WANT OUR FAIR SHARE!!!
Wow I have always wanted to buy one of these cars but now I don't really want to. I had no idea that they were exploiting workers just as much as the corporation Nestle.
I worked for a small Company where the Union was of little benefit and after a large majority voted the Union OUT, there was better pay, working conditions and benefits; most of the workers were of great value and it was the Company's advantage to maintain that work force. I now work for a large Company where pay and benefits are good, but working conditions are no fun; we have a Union and am pretty sure much would not change either way, except for advancement, but one good thing about having this Union in this large Company is the contract; work hours, overtime, pay scale, advancement, PTO, vacation, holidays, benefits and other tidbits are all defined in the contract. What is good for the Working Class is jobs, jobs, jobs; then, those who can read/write/arithmetic, those with no substance abuse, those who can show up on time, those without a criminal background, those who are willing to start at the bottom, those who are willing to sweat and get dirty, those with some skill or at least trainable, those who will follow instruction and those who respect authority will most likely work their way into a good job.
Renegotiate - guaranteeing the things union members care about the most, such as: decent raises, affordable health care, stable schedules, job security, pensions, etc
@@brianstevens7241true.....the union screwed us without a condom now they want me to strike......I'm going to work I feel the union owes temporary workers
The Union let them do it to begin with. The UAW has become a aristocracy. I've lived next to the Jeep plant all my 60 years. The only people they hire are the children of the people already working there and new foreign immigrants with no verifiable past.. All one big closed family operation.
At Ford during the Covid and Part shortages our temps wouldn’t get paid most of them would leave and they worked harder then us. Taking on the harder jobs and still coming to work. They deserve full time tenure.
I experienced some of the same things by being a TVC at Google. I was doing the same job as a Google employee. I did not get the same pay or stock options, bonus. After over 5 years all of our group was let go with no reason given and no job offer.
This is EXACTLY what the song Rich men North of Richmond, is about...workers working their a** off for unequal/low pay , while the Rich Men(company CEO's,etc.) get/stay rich!
I bought a compass which was used . Really nice job . But to hear that you didn’t get paid for building it for me , really makes sick . As a customer I am sorry now . Please forgive me .
You should honestly reach out to Jeep and write them a letter. If tens of thousands of customers that that and the employees went on strike it could actually make a difference. Every single drop of change adds up
These sorts of abuses need to be more widely known. When corporations abuse workers in this way. We need to organize mass boycotts until they change their policies.
I'm feeling embarrassed that I own a Jeep. I've attempted to take it through emission control six times now. Everytime I fail. And I'm told that I need to get out of my comfort zone and drive it more. I'm out of my comfort zone simply taking the car in to a new tags. I purchased this vehicle so I would be able to get to the grocery store and in the past several years I have not even put a hundred miles on the vehicle. So what happens I'm sent over to the Jeep place and they want more money just to look at it to tell me there's nothing wrong with it and I simply need to drive it more. That's not why I purchased this vehicle.
Not sure where you live but, not all states consider OBDII data pull an emissions test. As of eight years ago I lived in CA. Not only do they stick a probe up the tail pipe, they also put every vehicle (all wheel drive is exception) on a two wheel dyno. Where I live in TN, zero emissions check. Just pay annual registration fee which is well under $100.00. @@TheMysteryDriver
90days seems good to me. 6months would be my limit. I was a temp for a credit reporting company and was able to apply internally for a full time position after 3 months. I still had my CV out applying for regular positions with other companies though and ended up moving to one after about a month because I needed the benefits even though it was lower pay so I understand the temptation to stay on the line. You just have to choose your battles and stand up where you can. At least that's what they're doing now. I hope they get it.
I'm a city worker, the contract the city offered us was genuinely offensive. We'll be in a strike position by the end of October. I don't want to strike, we provide a needed service in our city. But the city doesn't want to play fair. We asked for a pay increase that's equal to inflation, and they offered us 2%.
news flash, you accepted the job as a supplemental... if you dont like it.... QUIT.... just that simple. Tired of hearing these people complain. The reason the plant has to have so many supplemental employees is because of the rampant abuse of FMLA and sick leave. People think companies owe them something. If you dont like the job find a different one. Oh and yes I am a union worker for 40 years now. We paid our dues to get where we are and you want to walk in the door and have it given to you.... How about earning it.
Supplemental were offered fulltime work in Detroit, dundee, and I think Warren or Trenton and when asked if they wanted to be fulltime they turned it down , they shouldn't have had that option. Had they taken the fulltime offer they wouldn't be in this predicament now!
"Having a union job used to mean something" as a railroader this is facts. Generation that just retired paid cash for kids college and had rental properties. I can barely afford daycare ... at the same damn job.
This is the exact same as UPS. You are temporary, on THEIR schedule, never know when your going to work if at all or how long, with no benefits, “time off”, or guarantees at all.
I work for a class one railroad and I stand with UAW, our basic right to strike was denied by the federal government so I'm glad to see other unions who are still able to strike use their right and voice.
Same thing happened to me when i worked at the post office. They wouldn't make me full time. Pay went from $17 to $12, as a retired veteran my coworkers were pissed at the situation until i walked out. No job is worth living like that.
My Jeep Grand Cherokee is the most unreliable car I've ever owned. If not for the extended warranty, it would have cost $25K in repairs. This video explains one of the reasons for that. If you treat people unprofessionally, they will have no incentive to give you their best. If you work people too much, they will make mistakes. These people deserve to be full time professionals working normal hours. They deserve professional pay. They deserve health care benefits, vacation, sick leave, and retirement.
Yes, and your jeep will cost a 100k, and still be a piece a POS that most people will not be able to afford and that will ultimately solve reliability issues. No car- nothing to break down. I feel for those guys but what’s going to happen is most of em will get replaced by automation in the near future, hopefully they will be prepared.
@@whitehorse1961 So because American companies are prioritizing short-term profits to appease stock holders who drive foreign cars we should blame the workers who assemble them and give them nothing? You didn't say that out loud but it sure sounds like what you mean. It also sounds like you're saying American's themselves are incapable of performing the tasks necessary to build a good car. You should read up on what happened when Toyota sent Americans to their Japanese plants where they were treated respectfully, with support from the upper management. Upon returning home, they were able to produce some of the best cars Toyota made. Automation WILL eventually replace many of these jobs. There is no doubt about that. However, that has been the song of the industry for 30 years, and yet we still see all manufactures needing assembly line workers. Maybe we're 80% there with AI development, but that last 20% is going to be way harder and take way longer than the first part did. Building the machine that builds the machine is still very, very complicated.
I'm actually vested in two unions. Heavily in one. The United food and commercial workers union the grocery store part. They prevent workers from full time status by giving only 39 hours. Once full time scheduled their full-time always but that is only for management. I was scheduled 44 as a night crew boss, I hope that changed
Reminds me of being a mailman. We were City Carrier assistants, fulfilling all of the routes on any given day, all while full time Carriers never exceeded overtime unless they wanted to, had a set route, and more union protection. We however, could legally be worked 360 days straight, and they definitely don't pay us as much. Same job, if not a harder one because of the unpredictability. Just backwards.
As an automotive technician, I can tell that Chrysler(Stellantis) has cut costs. Their products are not built well and are not made to last. It sucks that greed brought them to where they are, but it is what it is.
8 years as a "supplemental" employee... dangling that carrot for EIGHT. FUGHIN.YEARS. And these corporations have the balls to say the workers are greedy. JFC
I love this video; it exposes the loopholes big corporations use to exploit workers. It should be against the law! (Another huge company that uses this almost exclusively is IBM.)
And the people who tell you that you’re “not working hard” are usually the ones that either don’t work at all because they’re super rich or those that have a 9-5 because they got very very lucky (this is becoming less and less common)
When I started at Chrysler in 1969, I was making 60 cents less than the old timers; in two months, 20 cents less; in three months, I made full rate. Solidarity forever!
I used to be a total Mopar fan but that was many years ago now. Since they bought out I can't support them anymore. No matter how good the car may be, I won't even be buying a used one until everyone is treated right and in the unions. It should be 90 days then hired in, that's how it works at good companies some even non union, those are few and far between but thankfully my husband found a job at one. Here in Kansas it's going to be a really really hard fight to get the unions back in here and strong as well. As for how they are using these people sadly that is happening everywhere. Many companies hire temps and even if they have a so called policy's to higher them in at 90 days they let them go on day 89. Just like many retail stores you get hired in then after 90 days you are supposed to get fully hired in because your trail period is over and often it doesn't matter how good you do the job you don't get it. Or you only get part time which basically means no benefits at all. I am beyond happy to see the unions making a real comeback.
I don't work for jeep and this is my job too. at the very least they let me have days off but everything they said applies pretty much to every job I've had so far. why does going straight into the workforce feel like a punishment? when I do everything they ask me to do they find a way to exploit me. this forces me to behave a certain way to be given less work I'm also always vastly underpaid. I just hope it gets better, maybe my only option is so go back to school but I worry I'll have all this debt and stress out later about having to pay my debt.
At the railroad I worked at (retired now with a good pension) you started at 75% of the regular pay rate. Then every year you'd get an increase of 5 percent until you reached full pay five years later. Your medical insurance had no restrictions for new employees. This is nuts for these part time auto workers. I wish them all the best in their quest for better pay, benefits and days off as they certainly earned it.
Thank you for your solidarity. 🙏❤️
Maybe mention to your congress leaders to legalize general strikes so that your solidarity is legal to go beyond mere words.
I honestly wish there was more to do but frankly it's either that or go burn down a billionaire's mansion.
Globalization, only way to compete with the rest of the world. Thank your politicians, addtional cost gets past on
Lucky, you know it’s shit i actually got on BNSF and currently on furlough I have only worked with the company 3 months
@@luisvilla799 I've had my share of layoffs, and I was once fired from one of the two railroads I was employed by. It was the union that got me back working with backpay after I was "canned."
Dang, we need Congress to put some worker’s rights into law, this is just obvious corporate manipulation of labor regulations to try to legalize wage theft.
It'll never happen unless people start getting together to lobby
I stand by this message
@@TheMysteryDriverWell, or forgetting the lobby and instead just fucking shit up.
When the cogs stop turning, they notice. When they attack us, we fight back. Stand in solidarity to those who fight back, and we might change politics.
The politicians are bought and paid for by corporate interests.
I agree but we also need to consider state level laws. Ford and GM are in Michigan so they don't get away with this shit but Ford is building Blue Oval City in TN and their electrical plant in KY due to the weak state laws on worker rights.
it should be criminal to keep people as temporary workers for years on end. that is cruel.
It should be criminal to be so stupid they would stay there.
@@jonm-pe2mb wow you have no argument
It is abusive. It leads to dysfunction. A 50 year old contract employee has very little chance of getting papers. Pretty young girls have no trouble. I would never run a company that way. There is no more effective way to destroy the precious intangible, which is people who care about what they are doing.
@@jonm-pe2mbWhy are you blaming victims for the actions of their abusers?
@@jonm-pe2mb union busters must love you and your garbage takes.
I won't vote yes until the temps and supplemental workers at Stellantis have a pathway to fulltime FOR REAL!
No pathway! No supplemental workers! They must hire the help they need, not rent muscle for years on end!
The uaw and full timers are going to sell us put to get what they want
Be careful, the economy is falling apart. They may just move to Mexico. They pay $10 an hour there for labor that is on par with the us if not better. They likely will deal with a lot less nonsense like lawsuits, etc
As long as it's a "pathway" they can keep adding obstacles to prevent people from completing the path.
@@LostieTrekieTechie dot damn I can imagine....string along effect
Collectively we bargain, alone we BEG.
In solidarity with all Workers and Unions. ❤
Unions are full of corruption though and lots of "stuff for the old timers and screw the new people". Unions need to vote in new management.
Right on 💯
It doesn't seem to be much use to these people.
Collectively, and with solidarity, we could do more than bargain, we could have representation that actually represents us from our politicians who usually only serve their own interests and the interests of the ultra wealthy. We could also have a firm grasp of control on the power dynamic between exploited workers and those at the top that siphon off most of what the workers generate, that power imbalance has been wildly out of balance for way too long ❤ ✊️
Amen!
RECORD PROFITS = RECORD CONTRACTS
END TIERS
BRING BACK COLA
END 'SUPPLEMENTAL TEMPS' WHICH ACTUALLY MEANS FULL-TIME BUT UNDERPAID AND UNDERVALUED WORKERS!! 😤😤😤😤
In solidarity with all Workers ❤️
Back before Reagan the people who make the BIG money wrung out of labor today used to be hit with a 73% tax on multimillion dollar annual incomes. It wasn't worth cheating the worker, customer or to ship jobs overseas until Reagan brought Trickldown in. Tax these greedy SOBs like we used to and watch how fast wages come up and prices go down...
@@johnassal5838indeed. 👍👏
C.O.L.A. = Cost of Living Adjustment
No one should HAVE to work 60-70 hours a week, under ANY circumstances.
unfortunately they don't have a choice...the only choice is fine, quit... that's not really a choice...it's slavery practically...and it's pathetic
Tell that investment banking analysts that work 80 to 110 hours a week and that's despite the trade off being starting six figure salary and a generous bonus but the burn out is real
Police, Fire, EMT’s, Medical Assistants, X-Ray techs, Nurses, Skilled Workers, Factory Workers and everyone else…..say it together UNION NOW!
@@brianmoore6327Maybe not the police unions 👀 let's stick to the jobs that are actually beneficial to society. Fire and EMS are great though!
When they quit or take leave or a long holiday and face their real burnout they have a decent cushion built up - or at least the chance of it- *these factory workers are NOT comparable because their wages are TOO LOW.* @@ricklopez8431
I'm glad these people generally love their jobs and are PROUD of the product they produce.
BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE HELD AGAINST THEM! Whether they LOVE it, or simply LIKE it, they're ENTITLED to a FAIR, LIVEABLE wage for 40 h/week!
Make it happen UAW, do right by every Worker. ❤🙏
@user-yv7pg1uf9sif this isn't a bot username IDK what is lmao
Yep, this crap happens a LOT in the entertainment and games industry and they have gotten away with it for years simply because the workers love the games they are working on.
Entitled? Most Americans think the fast food workers don't deserve $15/hr. Why are some workers entitled and others not
@@chumps7974ALL WORKERS are entitled a FAIR, LIVEABLE WAGE.
It's as simple as that. 😊
Every executive every consultant everyone responsible for this should be in fucking prison.
This shouldn't be happening **anywhere**, full stop. Solidarity and victory to UAW workers from Canada!!!
Incredible to have the gigantic American flag waving on the factory floor as the bosses exploit the workers. Peak U.S.A. energy!
That flags entire history has been about exploitation
The flag is historically the perfect emblem of worker exploitation.
Lol. Seems like these workers have chosen to be exploited. Anybody with a lick of common sense would have quit, and got another job… I mean listen to those “stories” again. We are a free country. Nobody is forcing them to do this job.
Silent slavery.
@@alexeastman28 chosen… nobody is forcing them to do anything
Instead of asking what economic impact a couple of months of striking could mean, why don't we ask ourselves what DECADES of AWFUL TREATMENT AND EXPLOITING OF WORKERS by INCREDIBLY GREEDY CORPORATIONS causes!?? 😤😤
THESE QUESTIONS ARE ALL WRONG AND IT'S BY DESIGN.
BE BETTER, MEDIA!! 😤😤😤😤
The Rent-a-worker program must go! Abolish temporary labor now!
You must realize by now. The 1% own the media, they own the government. They always demonize the workers as greedy. But the billionaires, stealing is just business as usual
Both valid questions but yes let's expand the discussion!
Media is funded by rich people
This is currently happening at my factory job. There is a number of my fellow coworkers whom been working at this factory, that have been here for anywhere from 6-11 months being with a temp agency, that none of us have been hired on as full-time employees, even though we're working full time hours.
How can you be a "temp" employee for 5+ years?! This should be illegal. All workers should get the same pay and benefits regardless of being temp or not and temp employment should be no more than like 2% of the workforce and for no longer than like 3 months.
I want to feel bad for them, but at the same time they are choosing to work there. I never would.
@@sirsneakybeakyfactory work is soulless work.
There's no reward at the end of the day for your work
No personal satisfaction.
It's not for everyone.
@@sirsneakybeaky I've found satisfaction in every job I've had, except production.
Finishing a job and stepping back looking at it as a whole is a good feeling.
You don't get that with production. At least I didn't get that with production. The next day was literally the exact same thing. I was a literal robot.
If I knew how to work with electronics I could've written a program to replace myself. All of the jobs I've found satisfaction in will be some of the last to be replaced by robots. Doing the exact same task in the exact same position is far from rewarding. Those positions will be the first to go when AI & robotics are cheap enough.
I only made it 3 months into my production job. When it was time for my review I was offered an internal position instead of the temp agency. I declined and gave her my two weeks.
Production is the lowest form of _skilled_ labor there is. You can teach someone nearly everything about their position in one shift.
Production work is some of the physically easiest work I've ever done. However mentally, it was the most challenging for me. I am not knocking production workers as it takes a special mindset to do that kind of work. I'd rather get kicked by cows and work in manure for less pay than work a production job.
@@drewhio9262you drive a truck… you literally do the same thing every day lol.
@@drewhio9262 you must not understand the irony of what your trying to say.
I have been in the Toledo Jeep plant many times over the years and remember when the temp hires were brought in. I believe their starting pay was around $14 an hour. These guys are getting the shaft, because as was stated, these guys are worked liked dogs.
In South Africa, we have a law that if a worker works more than 32 hours a week over a year, they are considered permanent employees.
I am sure the poor quality of Jeep products in recent years is a reflection of an abused workforce.
Its every brand stellantis owns, literally all garbage.
I agree to a point, the quality of parts and where they are sourced is a big issue but there is also a quality issue with the construction, im all for workers rights and im aware of how corporate management works but i have never and will never buy any car made in america, its strictly toyota or honda for our whole family.
More a reflection of their greed. They're just as cheap when it comes to materials and designs as when paying workers.
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-Dead A big part of that was they were feeding the greed that was just starting to circumvent the old top Marginal income tax that had *forced* the rich to share the proceeds of capitalism or they'd pay extremely painful tax rates on the obscene profit they take now while paying a lower tax rate than you do even after Biden got it increased to 25% from the 3% it was at since Reagan. It was 73% when Reagan ripped it out for the 3% of Trickledown. It was as high as 90% right after WW2.
The point was never to pay 73% or 90% but to make it too expensive for them to take that money in the first place. This is what kept wage inequality low and living wages high while *quality* was high and inflation low. No price gouging since it simply wasn't worth it. But there were always tax loopholes for those with no company to reinvest in or who got huge payouts from things like stock options; in these cases they could drop a few tax brackets by donating half the total above the income for the top rate. Mostly to non profit colleges and hospitals. So on top of much better wages AND lower costs for goods and services college and healthcare were subsidized for the Boomers now calling these kids lazy.
Large companies generally didn't money grub with employees or customers because it wouldn't have made the people making those choices another dime anyway. Otherwise they would.
But by the 1970s the One Percent had lobbied for more loopholes, enough to keep more money than ever since FDR and the start if the New Deal. This increased the incentives for those decision makers to rip us all off a bit more. Thats why quality and warranties started dropping. What was worse they even managed to get tax credits for funding the BS think tanks and conservative schools that manufactured Trickldown to eventually set them completely free to offshore every job not nailed down and still keep at least 97% of the money after taxes while driving down the cost of American labor to the point we'd have to compete for their crumbs.
Oh and those billionaires went from subsidizing affordable college and healthcare to turning these institutions into their own personal ATMs to drain the middle class dry. Btw, the moment of the big turnaround and it's aftermath imposing _"New Fiscal Realities"_ is the setting of the old TV drama St. Elsewhere... it never needed to happen. The greedy billionaires just wanted to have even more than having the most and they made it happen.
We will never get a fair share much less get the money out politics or tackle climate change if we don't start by reinstating the old putative top income tax rate of 70% or even 90% on multimillion annual incomes, forcing the money the One Percent will otherwise take back into growing the economy and middle class.
@@Ayn-Rand-Is-Dead GM is quite interesting to study. Ford, an ol' farm boy, wanted people buying a Ford and keeping it going as long as they liked. He was serious about "you can have it any color you like as long as it's black" (and chose that color because it was the cheapest/toughest, being used on things like wagons etc.) and GM came in with the ever-changing "model year" and a large palette of colors, and most importantly, *FINANCING* in fact a decade or two ago GM was being called "a finance company that builds some cars".
It's simply wild that it's lawful anywhere in the world to pay 2 people who work in the same place at the same job differently.
That's Corporate Rule in a nutshell.
It's a lot easier when you trick people into thinking they aren't allowed to discuss wages.
Depends on the situation. If someone does more work, more quality work, has more time in that position, then they most certainly deserve more money
Lobbyists dazzle State Reps with cash & prizes so this type of stuff gets slipped into (or written out of) Labor Laws.
@@Ryan-wx1biexactly, they are tripping
This is why the United States needs better labor laws. And why labor unions are ESSENTIAL in the United States.
Absolutely. But the hayday of the middle class and of this country came *after* we started using prohibitively high top income tax brackets to set a limit on how much the very wealthy could actually pay out to themselves. That ended under Reagan and the middle class has sunk as the Very Rich take more and more. It's not coincidence.
There are labor laws. They can simply find a different job
@@ThorOdinson-zc2kq That has not been true for a very long time. At least 50 years at this point.
@@jakekaywell5972 i suddenly remembered the article and news report of people being forced at gunpoint to work for jeep. Oh wait never happened
In the United States, you have 12 years of mandatory free education, where every single day they are preparing you for life working as an adult. Some people use this as preparation for adult life. Others choose to clown around, find themselves and party. The latter find themselves blaming others and complaining when they have zero skills to offer. I have zero fucks to give about them.
Statistics show that Africans, Asians and Hispanics entering the United States work harder and achieve more than natural born citizens. It’s an issue of entitlement and laziness. Don’t like your job? Try harder and find a new one.
@@jakekaywell5972it was never common. It’s an inherent feature of capitalism.
I worked at the Wrangler plant from 2006-2012. I went from $12-$18hr and worked 60ish hours a week to make a decent living. I left after graduating college.
I remember coming back to visit in like 2015, they actually were paying new hires at that time only $10.
To give an example of how egregious this is, In 2009 Wrangler was starting at 23k and now the Wrangler starts at 32k. The average employee cannot afford these cars or anything unless they work crazy hours.
I missed so many milestones because this job, pay these ppl what they deserve!
This isn't an issue of workers not wanting to work. It's an issue of GREED! Large corporations that make millions in profit off their employees on the production floor not willing to pay a living wage! 🤯
Stand together UAW Stand strong and stay your course. You deserve better.
As a fellow Toledo resident.. I stand with hard working men and woman striking .. .. get your shit you’ve earned
I am so embarrassed for these companies. They don't care if they break their workers. This is inhumane.
Solidarity with strikers.
I would suggest they contact every Jeep club across the US they can and ask for a letter in solidarity with UAW and temp workers. I'll be bringing this up to my club ASAP.
Excellent idea!!
This!
I'll support Jeep workers by having never owned or will ever own a Jeep.
So they lose their job? Great help
Why buy something that breaks all the time?
@@TheMysteryDriver 2015 never broke down
@@getlostwhenwondering393 I hope jeep shuts down, they are evil
2009 never broke down and she`s still as beautiful as ever!@@getlostwhenwondering393
I love your channel because you don't just point out how bad it is. You tell us what people are doing and how we can change.
My daughter has been TPT at Jeep for 3 years. I knew she was getting screwed over, but she never told me it was this bad. I hate what it means for her and her family if they go on strike, but she has family to lean on. My heart breaks for those who don't. Maybe Stellantis will surprise us...pfft
An American icon.......owned by Stellantis, built for your mechanic....trading on history.....
Lol
agreed, new jeeps are crap compared to the 90s-06.
@@UnkleBen yeah, they're designed to look cool - mission accomplished - but I wouldn't buy a new one unless I was only about the image.
@@Philusteen im perfectly happy with my 99, my buddys who bought 07 & 09 respectively both have had to replace their motors between 120-150k, sad.
@@UnkleBen one of my friends had a '99 - I'd trust that. :-)
When corporations have too much power....this.
I was a "temp" for five years working IT for the State. Before and after that, I was a temp for multiple insurance companies for 1-2 years each. The only reason I had health insurance was because of Obamacare. I was on food stamps for part of that time. No sick leave, two days berevement max. One of my co-workers DIED because he could not afford to take time off work.
When I was at the State, they "restructured" and a lot of the FTEs had their salaries cut. The salaries were posted online. The guy next to me kept complaining until I told him, while I had SOME sympathy, he was STILL making over twice what I was for the same job.
Using temps like this should be ILLEGAL.
There HAS to be a CAP ON AMOUNT OF TIME WORKED AS A TEMP BEFORE YOU AUTOMATICALLY BECOME A FULLTIME WORKER!!
Almost right. ABOLISH rent-a-worker programs across the board.
They would just fire the temp like a week before that time limit
Stand with UAW. Solidarity forever. If you have the means give to their strike fund.
Weird hearing someone complain about a job they weren’t forced to have.
The union should never have let this happen to begin with. Unions are becoming a thing of the past. These used to be the jobs everyone wanted. These products are very expensive and they can do better. I pray the company will do them right. My husband retired from Chrysler, and back then, the wages were good, along with good benefits.
Union leaders are corrupt
Labor cost of a new vehicle today (union made) is right around 5.1-5.3% of the total cost...so it's not labor that makes the vehicles so expensive...it's materials
@@munkee221Not even. It's markup.
You said, "Unions are becoming a thing of the past". Where have you been getting your information from, Fox NEWS?! Starbucks is seeing dozens of locations unionize. Amazon workers are unionizing. This was unthinkable 10 years ago.
The union negotiated the temps into the contract
My job in the software industry was extremely similar, minus the medical crashing. I worked as a contractor for Microsoft for nearly 12 years. The year I started was the year they went to court over contractors being paid less but doing the same jobs and being treated exactly the same as the full-timers. The court case just made Microsoft limit their contracts to a year with a mandatory 100-day lay-off. Basically, I had to reapply every year and never build up any seniority.
Unending respect to those fighting to make the workplace what it should be!!!! So many of us are inspired by people like this thank you!!!
There are tons of non-Union companies who treat their temp workers way better, and where full time benefits are only a couple years down the road. IF this is where we're at, time to ask the question "What is the union doing for me?"
By definition temporary should be temporary. Over 12 months, they aren't temporary. Period. Good on the union for bargaining on their behalf. United we stand, divided we fall.
Educate or learn a trade so you no longer have to be the underclass base labor. Do for yourself rather than expecting someone else to see you.... be in control of your own
Honestly, this isn't just the companies, it's the union heads as well. They had to agree to this situation for it to go into effect; They also could have just said no and made the company suffer on the market. Unfortunately, as we learned with the UPS negotiations, they're more concerned about building a profitable relationship with the company, than they are about protecting their own. That needs to change.
You can thank companies like Aerotek, Kelly, Onboard Services and many many others for facilitating such cheap labor as they basically bid on you as cheap temp workers and allow these companies to give you nothing for years and years.
Idea: investigate TEMU's operations in the States, ive been giving them the side eye to see if they really only exploit their workers in their home country
I used to work for Chrysler suppliers. I've sat in meetings with Chrysler management back in the early 2010s and they were hands down the absolute most arrogant and slimy human beings I'd ever met in my life.
Every single career auto worker I've ever met has told me that Ford and GM at their worst are better than Chrysler ever was, even at their best.
It was actually going to Toledo during the Cherokee wind down there that convinced me to never work for another automaker ever again.
You know things are rigged when you can't afford to buy the product you're building. 😆 I remember a time UAW workers were making way more than $17 or $30 per hour adjusted for inflation. My father was a Teamster and drove for Elio's Pizza out of Lodi, NJ before they got bought out by McCain Foods. This is early 80s, he was making $17/hr plus full health benefits. At least we know who's holding all the money, just Google your local billionaire, turn him upsidedown and shake out his pockets.
Thank you for this channel. I love hearing about these stories of how workers are fighting back all over the US against just disgraceful exploitation. 100% support to these proud and dignified workers ready to strike for their collective futures. 💛✊
For everyone praising UAW you need to remember they allowed this to be written in the contract. Plus the members voted for it they helped create the issue.
Because the companies were on the brink of non existence!!! The union was in bed with the company so yeah people wanted to keep their jobs!!! The UAW made concessions, now in good times WE WANT OUR FAIR SHARE!!!
Wow I have always wanted to buy one of these cars but now I don't really want to. I had no idea that they were exploiting workers just as much as the corporation Nestle.
Beware of all and every corporation / organization that has NO UNION or REFUSE to accept a union to protect employees
I worked for a small Company where the Union was of little benefit and after a large majority voted the Union OUT, there was better pay, working conditions and benefits; most of the workers were of great value and it was the Company's advantage to maintain that work force. I now work for a large Company where pay and benefits are good, but working conditions are no fun; we have a Union and am pretty sure much would not change either way, except for advancement, but one good thing about having this Union in this large Company is the contract; work hours, overtime, pay scale, advancement, PTO, vacation, holidays, benefits and other tidbits are all defined in the contract.
What is good for the Working Class is jobs, jobs, jobs; then, those who can read/write/arithmetic, those with no substance abuse, those who can show up on time, those without a criminal background, those who are willing to start at the bottom, those who are willing to sweat and get dirty, those with some skill or at least trainable, those who will follow instruction and those who respect authority will most likely work their way into a good job.
These people are union, this is the contract their union bargained.
Union leaders should be well versed in "Contract Law" - working for the best interest of union members
Renegotiate - guaranteeing the things union members care about the most, such as: decent raises, affordable health care, stable schedules, job security, pensions, etc
@@brianstevens7241true.....the union screwed us without a condom now they want me to strike......I'm going to work I feel the union owes temporary workers
It's like this at UPS too.
You know what else? The other workers, don't want their colleagues to be exploited this way either
Solidarity
Didn’t UPS just finish negotiations with the union that would transition these folks to permanent, full-time workers?
The Union let them do it to begin with. The UAW has become a aristocracy. I've lived next to the Jeep plant all my 60 years. The only people they hire are the children of the people already working there and new foreign immigrants with no verifiable past.. All one big closed family operation.
At Ford during the Covid and Part shortages our temps wouldn’t get paid most of them would leave and they worked harder then us. Taking on the harder jobs and still coming to work. They deserve full time tenure.
I experienced some of the same things by being a TVC at Google. I was doing the same job as a Google employee. I did not get the same pay or stock options, bonus. After over 5 years all of our group was let go with no reason given and no job offer.
Well Imagine That.........SHOCKING!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@billbrochocki296 they’ve been trying to bring in the communications union for a while now.
This is EXACTLY what the song Rich men North of Richmond, is about...workers working their a** off for unequal/low pay , while the Rich Men(company CEO's,etc.) get/stay rich!
As a union member (local 300) i would like to see my auto union members brothers and sisters win this fight 😎👍
I bought a compass which was used . Really nice job . But to hear that you didn’t get paid for building it for me , really makes sick .
As a customer I am sorry now . Please forgive me .
You should honestly reach out to Jeep and write them a letter. If tens of thousands of customers that that and the employees went on strike it could actually make a difference. Every single drop of change adds up
If you read it here , they probably saw it there . Let’s see what happens .@@tavenstrickert9658
After 10 years and crappy contracts I quit for my health and I was the chairman ...
The Chairman of what?
@@2Twsted of the the company I work for 80 employees every company has a voted in union chairman.
how you have workers that cant even afford the product they make smh
WE ARE WITH YOU JEEP WORKERS FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT WE GOT YOUR BACK!
So Jeep is the Amazon of the car industry. Never liked their vehicles and now this is solid proof of just what a underhanded company they are.
These sorts of abuses need to be more widely known. When corporations abuse workers in this way. We need to organize mass boycotts until they change their policies.
Imagine building a Jeep you can't afford...
Unions used to work for the people who weren't not the companies
I drive ‘21 Wrangler every day. Solidarity to the people who built this awesome machine 🤝🚩
I'm feeling embarrassed that I own a Jeep. I've attempted to take it through emission control six times now. Everytime I fail. And I'm told that I need to get out of my comfort zone and drive it more. I'm out of my comfort zone simply taking the car in to a new tags. I purchased this vehicle so I would be able to get to the grocery store and in the past several years I have not even put a hundred miles on the vehicle. So what happens I'm sent over to the Jeep place and they want more money just to look at it to tell me there's nothing wrong with it and I simply need to drive it more. That's not why I purchased this vehicle.
Buy some fuel injector cleaner. Also why are emissions still hooking up to your exhaust. They should just be using the OBD2 connection.
Not sure where you live but, not all states consider OBDII data pull an emissions test. As of eight years ago I lived in CA. Not only do they stick a probe up the tail pipe, they also put every vehicle (all wheel drive is exception) on a two wheel dyno. Where I live in TN, zero emissions check. Just pay annual registration fee which is well under $100.00. @@TheMysteryDriver
@@kevinriordan7842 well CA online says they do the OBD2 check.
90days seems good to me. 6months would be my limit. I was a temp for a credit reporting company and was able to apply internally for a full time position after 3 months. I still had my CV out applying for regular positions with other companies though and ended up moving to one after about a month because I needed the benefits even though it was lower pay so I understand the temptation to stay on the line. You just have to choose your battles and stand up where you can. At least that's what they're doing now. I hope they get it.
Workers of the world unite!
I'm a city worker, the contract the city offered us was genuinely offensive. We'll be in a strike position by the end of October. I don't want to strike, we provide a needed service in our city. But the city doesn't want to play fair. We asked for a pay increase that's equal to inflation, and they offered us 2%.
I hope that this sentiment is contagious. The elites have helped themselves for long enough.
You found the 4 weakest people in the factory that would complain about any job.
news flash, you accepted the job as a supplemental... if you dont like it.... QUIT.... just that simple. Tired of hearing these people complain. The reason the plant has to have so many supplemental employees is because of the rampant abuse of FMLA and sick leave. People think companies owe them something. If you dont like the job find a different one. Oh and yes I am a union worker for 40 years now. We paid our dues to get where we are and you want to walk in the door and have it given to you.... How about earning it.
Supplemental were offered fulltime work in Detroit, dundee, and I think Warren or Trenton and when asked if they wanted to be fulltime they turned it down , they shouldn't have had that option.
Had they taken the fulltime offer they wouldn't be in this predicament now!
I stand with and support you! Fellow USW sister here. ✊
"I was terrified that I was gonna lose my job".
Capitalism working as intended.
"Having a union job used to mean something" as a railroader this is facts. Generation that just retired paid cash for kids college and had rental properties. I can barely afford daycare ... at the same damn job.
I've got to admit, I don't know why people stay at these kinds of jobs.
I'm glad they're striking.
I worked for in auto parts as a driver for $7.75 top pay 2018 . Worked 60+hours a week.
No solidarity without representation!
We make them the products that make them rich. We deserve to thrive from our own labor!
Unions forever!
Lol the little boy standing with his dad keeps yawning and it's so freaking cute. ❤ Poor little dude is SO bored. 😅
Frito-Lay is the same way. I know someone who works at one of their plants. This person works at least 80 hrs a week. Mandatory. 7 days a week.
Still?? I thought there were improvements their after/because of their Union push?? 😢
Union strong
This is not an endorsement for unions. In fact, they should be quite the opposite.
This is the exact same as UPS. You are temporary, on THEIR schedule, never know when your going to work if at all or how long, with no benefits, “time off”, or guarantees at all.
I work for a class one railroad and I stand with UAW, our basic right to strike was denied by the federal government so I'm glad to see other unions who are still able to strike use their right and voice.
Same thing happened to me when i worked at the post office. They wouldn't make me full time. Pay went from $17 to $12, as a retired veteran my coworkers were pissed at the situation until i walked out. No job is worth living like that.
If they aren't paying their employees why do jeeps cost so friggin much.
Jeep CEO's : "Should we offer them a pizza party?".
My Jeep Grand Cherokee is the most unreliable car I've ever owned. If not for the extended warranty, it would have cost $25K in repairs. This video explains one of the reasons for that. If you treat people unprofessionally, they will have no incentive to give you their best. If you work people too much, they will make mistakes. These people deserve to be full time professionals working normal hours. They deserve professional pay. They deserve health care benefits, vacation, sick leave, and retirement.
Yes, and your jeep will cost a 100k, and still be a piece a POS
that most people will not be able to afford and that will ultimately solve reliability issues. No car- nothing to break down.
I feel for those guys but what’s going to happen is most of em will get replaced by automation in the near future, hopefully they will be prepared.
@@whitehorse1961 So because American companies are prioritizing short-term profits to appease stock holders who drive foreign cars we should blame the workers who assemble them and give them nothing? You didn't say that out loud but it sure sounds like what you mean. It also sounds like you're saying American's themselves are incapable of performing the tasks necessary to build a good car.
You should read up on what happened when Toyota sent Americans to their Japanese plants where they were treated respectfully, with support from the upper management. Upon returning home, they were able to produce some of the best cars Toyota made.
Automation WILL eventually replace many of these jobs. There is no doubt about that. However, that has been the song of the industry for 30 years, and yet we still see all manufactures needing assembly line workers. Maybe we're 80% there with AI development, but that last 20% is going to be way harder and take way longer than the first part did. Building the machine that builds the machine is still very, very complicated.
I'm actually vested in two unions. Heavily in one. The United food and commercial workers union the grocery store part. They prevent workers from full time status by giving only 39 hours. Once full time scheduled their full-time always but that is only for management. I was scheduled 44 as a night crew boss, I hope that changed
remember when we told everyone that even $15 an hour we become less than a livable wage? i remember...
Well I was about to purchase a Jeep for around $23,000. Nevermind...
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
As I've said for many years: "Jeep is cheap." I guess I can add another reason why to my list of reasons.
Reminds me of being a mailman. We were City Carrier assistants, fulfilling all of the routes on any given day, all while full time Carriers never exceeded overtime unless they wanted to, had a set route, and more union protection. We however, could legally be worked 360 days straight, and they definitely don't pay us as much. Same job, if not a harder one because of the unpredictability. Just backwards.
Honestly forgot Jeep still existed as a car company.
As an automotive technician, I can tell that Chrysler(Stellantis) has cut costs. Their products are not built well and are not made to last. It sucks that greed brought them to where they are, but it is what it is.
Bring the big 3 to their knees , they have been bringing workers to there knees for years
8 years as a "supplemental" employee... dangling that carrot for EIGHT. FUGHIN.YEARS. And these corporations have the balls to say the workers are greedy. JFC
I love this video; it exposes the loopholes big corporations use to exploit workers. It should be against the law! (Another huge company that uses this almost exclusively is IBM.)
And the people who tell you that you’re “not working hard” are usually the ones that either don’t work at all because they’re super rich or those that have a 9-5 because they got very very lucky (this is becoming less and less common)
I retired from Jeep in 2008 . Best decision I ever made .
When I started at Chrysler in 1969, I was making 60 cents less than the old timers; in two months, 20 cents less; in three months, I made full rate. Solidarity forever!
I used to be a total Mopar fan but that was many years ago now. Since they bought out I can't support them anymore. No matter how good the car may be, I won't even be buying a used one until everyone is treated right and in the unions. It should be 90 days then hired in, that's how it works at good companies some even non union, those are few and far between but thankfully my husband found a job at one. Here in Kansas it's going to be a really really hard fight to get the unions back in here and strong as well. As for how they are using these people sadly that is happening everywhere. Many companies hire temps and even if they have a so called policy's to higher them in at 90 days they let them go on day 89. Just like many retail stores you get hired in then after 90 days you are supposed to get fully hired in because your trail period is over and often it doesn't matter how good you do the job you don't get it. Or you only get part time which basically means no benefits at all. I am beyond happy to see the unions making a real comeback.
I don't work for jeep and this is my job too. at the very least they let me have days off but everything they said applies pretty much to every job I've had so far. why does going straight into the workforce feel like a punishment? when I do everything they ask me to do they find a way to exploit me. this forces me to behave a certain way to be given less work I'm also always vastly underpaid. I just hope it gets better, maybe my only option is so go back to school but I worry I'll have all this debt and stress out later about having to pay my debt.
if the automakers had been allowed to fail last time instead of getting a gov't bailout, we wouldnt be in this situation.