UAW files ethics complaint against Romney for profiteering

11/1/2012

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Also out of Detroit, the United Auto Workers, along with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a formal complaint on Thursday accusing Romney of profiteering.

The allegations stem from Romney allegedly hiding a multi-million dollar windfall he received during the auto bailout due to a deal he made off of owning shares of Delphi.

Allegedly Romney hid anywhere from $15.3 million to $115 million in a “blind-trust” held under his wife’s name.

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WIN: Ford Workers Want hourly worker grievances settled, 06/28/11

6/27/2011

By Doug Cunningham

Thirty-five thousand Ford workers want their grievance over resinstatement of merit pay and 401 (k) matches to be settled before they vote on any new contract later this year. 

The United Auto Workers (UAW) is working with Ford on the grievance signed by the workers. 

Non-union salaried workers got their merit pay reinstated along with 401 (k) matches in 2010 but hourly workers didn’t. 

The workers say that violates the existing contract.

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UAW Considering GM Proposal To Change Auto Worker Compensation Structure

By Doug Cunningham 1/12/2011

In Detroit auto labor contract talks this year General Motors will push for a dramatic, historic change in the way hourly United Auto Worker members are compensated.

GM reportedly wants to compensate union workers the way non-union, salaried employees are paid – including performance-based variable compensation instead of a set amount of money spelled out in labor contracts.

UAW President Bob King says the union is open to considering some portion of UAW member compensation tied to financial and quality performance. But he said the details of how union workers “share in the upside of the companies” will be left to collective bargaining that starts this summer.

UAW members fought hard many decades ago to do away with piece-work and other performance-based forms of compensation because such methods could be and in fact were abused by management to unfairly target some workers while rewarding the boss’ favorites.

If the UAW does accept this form of compensation it would be huge shift, essentially eliminating the union as a representative of workers on wages, since compensation would be determined by management based on the financial performance of the company.

Rightardia agrees with the UAW position. UAW workers are not managers. They don't manage people or manage budgets. 

Nepotism and favouritism often creep into corporate evaluations. Would a management team want to reward a union worker who filed a justified grievance against the company? We have also seen good workers who have limited people skills passed over for promotions. 


Unions should be like the "three Musketeers, "All for one. One for all."

If corporations want to beat up on their managers to improve performance, let them. The managers who get paid 'big bucks take this abuse. Union workers get paid less than managers and pensions are about one third of what a a manager gets. 

The GM proposal would divide workers and weaken unions.  The UAW has already worked with the auto makers and made numerous concessions.

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UAW President Fights To Convince Members To Approve Ford Concessions to save 7,000 Jobs

10/27/09

by Doug Cunningham on October 26, 2009 - 5:19pm

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger says the concessions deal negotiated with Ford will preserve jobs. It guarantees that several factories in the U.S. will get new products to build.

Gettelfinger is running into some opposition to the tentative deal from some UAW members including UAW local officials in Michigan. Ford UAW members will vote in coming days on whether or not to accept the deal.

The UAW members against approving the concessions say that Ford is profitable so it shouldn’t be getting concessions from UAW workers. Gettelfinger says the right to strike isn’t surrendered in the tentative deal with Ford when it comes to issues like wage and benefits cuts, work rules or safety issues.

It does, however, give up the right to strike over union demands for improving wages and benefits. That would be decided in binding arbitration. Gettelfinger says the Ford deal preserves at least 7,000 jobs.

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Ford and UAW reach agreement

Ford has reached a tentative pact on concessions with the UAW that includes a no-strike clause. WSJ's Matt Dolan and Newswires' Jeff Bennett filed the video report.

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2010 VEHICLES BUILT BY UNION MEMBERS IN THE UNITED STATES & CANADA

The list includes the familiar brands such as Buick, Chevrolet, Ford, Mercury, Dodge and Jeep, as well as union-made models from Mazda, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Volkswagen.

Car shoppers should remember: Not all vehicles made in the United States or Canada are built by union-represented workers. For example, most models of the GMC Sierra are produced in the United States but some are made in Mexico. Some models of Toyota, Subaru and Mercedes are also assembled by non-union workers.

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source: http://www.hillbillyreport.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=625

Source: http://unionreview.com/2010-vehicles-built-union-members-united-states-and-canada

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