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United Teachers Los Angeles in solidarity with GM workers on Strike.
💰GM paid zero federal income taxes on $11b in profit in 2018. 🤑Their CEO raked in $22m in compensation last year. 👩🏾🏭They can afford to pay their workers a fair wage with excellent benefits. #GMStrike
Via UTLA
The national strike by 49,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) workers against General Motors that started on September 15, 2019, is the biggest strike in the country since a two-day walkout against GM by the UAW in 2007.
Workers are angry that even though the company has made record profits–$35 billion in the last three years–it won’t give an inch when it comes to workers’ demand for equal pay for all auto workers.
A former GM temp worker, now in a skilled trades apprentice program, told Michigan’s public radio station last week that being a temp was one of the worst times of her life. “They have a way of pitting you against a permanent employee where you feel like, if you go the extra mile, if you work a little bit more than your union brother or sister, that will give you an opportunity to eventually get hired in full time and that’s not the case.”
Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers are in the fifth week on their nationwide strike against General Motors.
By Emma Rose
Struggle-La Lucha visited UAW members in White Marsh, Md., northeast of Baltimore. Over 250 workers were forced to retire or relocate to out-of-state plants when GM ceased production at the 19-year-old White Marsh plant in May 2019. Today a handful of workers who remain employed at the plant are walking the picket line, along with forced retirees.
By Greg Butterfield
Almost 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers union walked out against General Motors on Sept. 16, shutting down 55 factories and parts plants across the U.S. It’s the largest strike in the country since a two-day walkout against GM by the UAW in 2007.
GM was bailed out by the federal government with $11 billion in taxpayers’ (that is, workers’) money in 2009. Since then, the company’s profits have rocketed — GM made $8.1 billion in 2018 — but union workers, who were forced to make concessions in previous contracts, have not seen any benefit as a result.
Instead, the company’s unionized workforce has fallen from 73,000 at the time of the 2007 strike to less than 50,000 today. Meanwhile, the auto giant relies increasingly on “second tier” temporary workers, who earn less and have fewer benefits than full time union members. Some of these “temp” workers have been employed up to six years in the same position.
#gmstrike #finally #thankgod #peacetrainnyc (at Eastchester–Dyre Avenue) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4EBksWja4H_JEaUWYxIdJUNNXIw5plJmPdhKg0/?igshid=1ou7xtougynet
UAW members continue to picket at the GM Lordstown plant which is scheduled to close after a new contract is ratified
"I say no. I say, everybody, I don't care whatever state your from vote no on this contract," Frank Sarna of Warren said. He feels this is just the beginning and that more GM workers are going to end up the same as Lordstown.
"It's going to happen. They're going to start closing more plants down. After they get this contract, in four years, you won't be able to do anything."
End the strike now... #gmstrike (at Bronx, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pPT1oDaJ6wdlDGVtCxa9iaxCe7WZ4iaA8mmA0/?igshid=vtyiehz85wk9
This #gmstrike is killing us. We bought a #Chevy cut-away box van and the transmission went out within the first couple months. We sent it in ti get replaced and this strike is holding up the new transmission for over 6 weeks! Can’t get the truck back, can’t fill it with two employees. Not to mention concrete season is our busiest time of year. #GMC this hurts your customer bad... https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Z6np7pVPv/?igshid=108gms6ot4jp4
