{"id":7564,"date":"2023-11-27T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:29:29","slug":"can-non-union-autoworkers-be-fooled-by-their-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/can-non-union-autoworkers-be-fooled-by-their-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Non-Union Autoworkers Be Fooled By Their Bosses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Times has an opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2023-11-22\/nonunion-automakers-are-matching-the-uaws-great-contract-but-that-may-be-bad-news-for-the-uaw\">Nonunion automakers seek to undermine UAW deal<\/a>.\u00a0 How do you think these autoworkers will respond?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nor should it escape workers\u2019 notice that the nonunion companies had to be goaded by the UAW\u2019s success into offering raises to their own employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not the raise before the UAW\u2019s?\u201d asks veteran union lawyer Thomas Geoghegan. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The companies\u2019 motivation may be to keep the UAW from storming their gates, Geoghegan says, \u201cbut it may backfire by making the workers wonder why a raise now, and not before. We don\u2019t have truly competitive labor markets, paying people what they are worth \u2014 if we did, then that raise would have occurred without the UAW.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.freepik.com\/premium-vector\/inspiring-motivation-quote-with-text-fool-me-once-shame-you-fool-me-twice-shame-me-vector-typography-poster-tshirt-design-concept-distressed-old-metal-sign-texture_615910-63.jpg\" alt=\"Premium Vector | Inspiring motivation quote with text fool me once shame on  you fool me twice shame on me vector typography poster and tshirt design  concept distressed old metal sign texture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>( graphic via freepik.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Times has an opinion piece Nonunion automakers seek to undermine UAW deal.\u00a0 How do you think these autoworkers will respond? Nor should it escape workers\u2019 notice that the nonunion companies had to be goaded by the UAW\u2019s success into offering raises to their own employees. \u201cWhy not the raise before the UAW\u2019s?\u201d asks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7565,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}