$58-an-HOUR UAW WORKERS

TURN DOWN A $16K FORD BONUS AS STINGY.

As the UAW rank-and-file continues to vote on the contract offer hammered out between management and UAW honchos, the Detroit Free Press reports that at least one local has rejected the offer, even though it includes a $6,000 cash bonus, a $3,700 profit sharing bonus and at least another $1,500 cash for each of the four years on the contract for a total of $15,700 on top of wages and benefits.

No wonder some auto companies needed a bailout. $58 an hour?  Most CEOs and small business owners make less than that.

Here’s a question: At $58 an hour, why the heck would Ford workers ever want to go on strike? That’s $121,000 per year in wages and benefits at a time when the average American worker makes $38,337 per year.  http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032011/perinc/new01_001.htm

Do these idiots realize how many unemployed people out there would jump at a chance to work for half that amount.

And really: Who in their right mind, considering the present economy, would reject a $16,000 bonus at a time that most industries are shedding jobs and wages are falling?

Not Bobbi Marsh, someone who started working for GM right before the crash came.

From the Seattle Free Press:
Bobbi Marsh, a worker in Lordstown, Ohio, near Cleveland who is paid the entry-level wage [at GM], said a raise would be nice, but she's more concerned about job security. Marsh was hired in 2008 to help make the hot-selling Chevrolet Cruze compact car. She's worried that if sales slow, she could get bumped out of work by people with more seniority.
"If they want to throw us a dollar or two, I'm very excited," she said. "I really just need to keep my job."

That’s not the way Ford union workers are seeing it.

The Detroit Free Press says that the voting is tight on the new contract, but by my math it doesn’t look like it’ll be approved.

“So far UAW production workers have voted in favor of the agreement by 50.1%, while 54.8% of skilled-trades workers have voted against the contract,” reports Freep.com.

“The results include votes from about 7.3% of the UAW’s local units.”

The local that reportedly rejected the Ford offer did so by narrow margin with 51 percent voting no, while 49 percent approved the contract. Given the numbers reported thus far, it doesn’t look good unless someone starts stuffing the ballot box.

But why would the union help the contract go through when they can teach those no-bailout sellouts at Ford a lesson and help Government Motors' profit-sharing plan at the same time?