Another Day and Another Week into the GM Strike
By Jordan Lader
@JordanLader (7386)
Sparta, Tennessee
October 8, 2019 8:00am CST
This is the fourth week for the GM strike. With over 60 thousand people don't care who they effect with this action.
I looked it up because now it's effecting my household.
The three sticking points are job security, temp workers wages and I can't remember the third one and I can't find the article again.
These are things that everyday people have to live with. My husband went through it when he first started looking for jobs down here in TN. He was a temp with minimum wage with no holiday pay or vacation. We made it through to where we are now. He worked hard and he moved up in the company.
Just because you're union doesn't make them better than we are. It just means that when you pull things like this walk out, you destroy millions of lives. Not that they care because I've heard this could go on until Christmas.
Jobs are getting better but there's still not an abundance of them. Plus with everyone getting laid off, it makes it harder because now everyone and their brother is now looking.
This strike is BS and all I'm doing is getting fed up with this and there's nothing I can do.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
8 Oct 19
At a risk of being flogged for writing this, I will, as I believe in this.
The company needs to break the union.
Unions in workplaces such as this have out-lived their good.
Gone are the days when health and safety and fair work were a major concern that a third party (union) needed to get involved. Today there are laws in place to protect workers on those fronts, the unions just stand for greed.
The union needs to back down or they will lose the business completely, they are still making the Chevy Equinox here in Ontario, with engines that they either had stock-piled or are being supplied by plants in Mexico.
Since your household is being affected by this, I do feel for you. My husband carried a lunchpail to an automotive manufacturing facility for almost 30 years, but that damned union asked for too much too many times, and the company pulled out and closed their doors.
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@JordanLader (7386)
• Sparta, Tennessee
11 Oct 19
I've been keeping up with the news and so far over 100 thousand workers have been laid off due to the strike. I'm not sure how they can afford to live on $250 a week and stand there ground.
I read somewhere that a mother of three has put her house up for sale because she couldn't afford it anymore.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
11 Oct 19
@JordanLader Workers never come out ahead when they walk the picket line and strike.
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