The L.A. Times has an opinion piece Nonunion automakers seek to undermine UAW deal. How do you think these autoworkers will respond?
Nor should it escape workers’ notice that the nonunion companies had to be goaded by the UAW’s success into offering raises to their own employees.
“Why not the raise before the UAW’s?” asks veteran union lawyer Thomas Geoghegan. “It should tell autoworkers at Toyota, Honda and Subaru, who had nowhere else to go anyway, that they were being paid less than they were worth.”
The companies’ motivation may be to keep the UAW from storming their gates, Geoghegan says, “but it may backfire by making the workers wonder why a raise now, and not before. We don’t have truly competitive labor markets, paying people what they are worth — if we did, then that raise would have occurred without the UAW.”
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