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15th October 2011, 05:08
Ford Workers Opposing Contract in Early Votes
by Jane Slaughter | Thu, 10/13/2011 - 11:26am
Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract give an edge to opponents of the agreement. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.
UAW reformers oppose the contract because it would freeze wages and substitute bonuses—which wouldn’t recover the losses from years of concessions—and it would permanently institutionalize the two-tier wage system. Despite raises for the lower tier, the contract provides no bridge to higher wages.
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http://labornotes.org/blogs/2011/10/uaw-ford-contract-behind-early-voting
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by Jane Slaughter | Thu, 10/13/2011 - 11:26am
Early results of voting on the new Ford-United Auto Workers contract give an edge to opponents of the agreement. Reformers in the union are organizing to get the 41,000 Ford workers to again vote “no” on their national contract, as they did in October 2009.
UAW reformers oppose the contract because it would freeze wages and substitute bonuses—which wouldn’t recover the losses from years of concessions—and it would permanently institutionalize the two-tier wage system. Despite raises for the lower tier, the contract provides no bridge to higher wages.
...
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2011/10/uaw-ford-contract-behind-early-voting
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