For those of you who saw this special last night on CNBC it’s great to see that GM is finally starting to do the right thing. The first and most important step is writing off those union contracts and setting workers wages to reflect the competitive auto market by reducing pay from 28.00 per hour to 14.00.
A professional with a Bachelor degree starts out at 28.00+ an hour, that's not a pay rate for general labor with a high school diploma. This is why Japan and other countries have us over a barrel when it comes to quality and price. All the money that GM was spending in labor for the past 30+ years should have gone into adding quality materials into the cars and more innovative designs. For those of you who might say $14.00 isn’t enough to live on then I would respectfully say that maybe they should find another line of work or better educate themselves and learn to live within there means because their are plenty of hard working people in other areas such as retail that would love the opportunity to make 14.00 an hour.
I feel that many union workers think they are entitled to make more then the common person and have an arrogance about then when it comes to wages just because they belong to a union. I have to say that it's a privilege and there work and quality should reflect all the compensation they receive but it doesn’t. Well maybe now it will.
A professional with a Bachelor degree starts out at 28.00+ an hour, that's not a pay rate for general labor with a high school diploma. This is why Japan and other countries have us over a barrel when it comes to quality and price. All the money that GM was spending in labor for the past 30+ years should have gone into adding quality materials into the cars and more innovative designs. For those of you who might say $14.00 isn’t enough to live on then I would respectfully say that maybe they should find another line of work or better educate themselves and learn to live within there means because their are plenty of hard working people in other areas such as retail that would love the opportunity to make 14.00 an hour.
I feel that many union workers think they are entitled to make more then the common person and have an arrogance about then when it comes to wages just because they belong to a union. I have to say that it's a privilege and there work and quality should reflect all the compensation they receive but it doesn’t. Well maybe now it will.