My son is currently employed for General Motors and is accordingly a member of the UAW (United Auto Workers) union, which is currently leading a strike against GM and other automotive companies.
Since he is relatively new or has only been with the company for a couple of months now, he did not receive the preference that his co-workers who have been with the company for more extensive periods of time received on selecting a strike shift.
By the time his co-workers with seniority made their selections, UAW assigned him an overnight strike shift starting last mornight or very early this morning. It was an immediate turn off for me. I decided to stakeout in my car within vicinity of the strike for the duration of my son's strike shift, and sure enough it was as creepy as I expected it to be.
.jpg) |
| UAW night strike in Memphis |
Though there was an audience of other overnight workers from nearby companies, etc., it was still uncanny and should not have been occurring at that particular time primarily due to safety concerns. Even if there were no safety concerns, it simply isn't appropriate for anyone to be out at that time of mornight making political statements.
Employees should only strike during day light hours, alternating duties or all striking in unison. Anyone not witnessing the strikes in person could watch them on the news and/or read about them.
In terms of salary negotiations, they should be speedily settled somewhere between what the union requests and what the companies propose. Speedy negotiations would save money that could have been paid to workers in the first place...
Requests and agreements should be reasonable and fair.
No comments:
Post a Comment