National Public Radio takes a look at the recently-elected leadership of the UAW and how it could benefit all members. Of course you can read the piece but you can also click the 3 minute listen button inside the article and absorb this story through your ears!
“We’re here to come together to ready ourselves for the war against our one and only true enemy: multibillion-dollar corporations and employers that refuse to give our members their fair share,” he said.
The combative tone was embraced by second-generation auto worker Jamante Washington, 58, who works at a Detroit plant that builds the hybrid Jeep Grand Cherokee. Washington was hired 12 years ago, after the UAW had negotiated contracts with two-tiered wages and benefits. Under such agreements, new hires would earn a lower wage than existing workers. Newcomers didn’t get the traditional UAW pension, long a staple of autoworker benefits packages. The companies won those concessions in the wake of the 2007-’08 financial crisis.
Washington says that was a lot of years and a lot of hefty corporate profits ago.
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