Day 3 of the strike. Anyone from GM who can offer some insights about the company culture and its future direction? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tensions-tempers-rise-picket-lines-general-motors-strike-enters-day-n1055936
I work in the auto industry. GM is trash to their lower tier workers, they pay their engineers relatively well but working there is like swimming through tar. Highly political and full of obstructions in getting anything actually done. I couldnāt imagine how the situation would be if these workers were not part of a union. The protest is warranted.
At Warren and Pontiac this isn't too far from true. I work as an engineer at MPG and its almost like a completely different culture. We have been more productive without the union, that is for sure.
Warren-tucky
Itās business as usual right now in Milford.
Normal day at work at the Georgia Innovation Center. I get their complaints, the hourly workers gave up a lot during the recession and it doesn't seem unnatural for them to ask for those things back since we had years of record profits. As for the culture....it depends on who you're working with. I've done a lot of work with the big data folks in Austin and it seems like a tech company there. I've also dealt with people on the business side who apparently think IT is their arch nemesis and do everything possible to make sure you don't succeed in delivering the software you're building to make their lives easier. And there's everything in between as it's a huge company. The biggest threat to salary employees at the moment is that we might not get our bonuses this year. Losing $50M a day during the strike really fucks with the free cash flow number that we base the bonus pay out on.
I will say what has not been covered much today is that GM did actually concede to the healthcare demand of the union a few hours before the striked, but nobody seems to care.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy about that. When I hired in I was told that the benefits package was partially determined by the union contract and that the salaried insurance plan is a lightly modified version of the hourly one. It's great insurance. For 2 adults I pay less than $100 a month and have a $5500 deductible and a significant discount on all procedures and medications. If that went up to $500 a month as would have happened under GMs proposal, I'd probably start looking for another job.
The plan I choose is less than vision and dental combined lol. Can't forget the $1500 in free HSA money. Our week off between Christmas and New Years is also determined by UAW. I'd like to think our 8% 401k matching is partially due to the old pension plan being thrown away and negotiations from UAW. I've talked to and looked around a few other tech companies in Atlanta. Their benefits are trash.
Unions are overall worse for the worker..... Change my mind
Shorted gm stock 38. 4500 shares. I wont cover till 30
Strikes are an odd phenomenon to me. If you're unhappy then quit. If you can't find another job that's because your skill set wasn't valued and you need to either accept the low pay (since you generate low value) or grow to find a way to contribute more to society. Choosing not to work should be a fireable offense.
How will the shitty company politics ever be put on blast or be forced to take accountability when they royally FUCK their workers. Especially the low tier workers that have literally carried the company to where it is now. Who will stick up for them?
"forced to take accountability" - quit. That's your option, it's a free market and capitalism should force them to correct this if it truly is a problem.
GM makes subpar products, slow to innovate. The line workers should become engineers
Lol tell to that to the C8 Corvettes and all the other Vettes that have continuously embarrassed the likes of Ferrari and McLaren. Also, the Camaro ZL1 and it's incredibly priced performance. Post-bailout GM has been on the mark with many of their vehicles.
Says the Uber employee š
Unions were the reason Detroit became Detroit today. When the unions disrupt businesses like UAW and increase the cost for products, businesses move their operations elsewhere. The workers ultimately suffer. I believe most of the union workers are hardworking people, but the union leaderships are absolutely cancer in this country.
In this country and all other countries in the world. Amen
I tell union guys that they need to globalize like the Transnational Corporations did. The shop steward grandpas were beat and killed during organizing. If the system is going to work they need to organize worldwide. They see what China does to rabble rousers. As long as oligarchs are in charge in China et al unions donāt stand a chance.
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