Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants - eviltoast
  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The automakers combine benefits with wages to make the number seem much larger than it actually is, so the workers sound greedy.

    Their current wages are around $20/hr. Calling that “$60/hr with benefits” is beyond misleading , it’s fucking disgusting. You can’t pay rent with benefits, fuck off.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t tone police me honey 🙄 when you side with the bosses you become my enemy. Don’t be surprised when I treat you like one.

        The demand is to increase the top hourly rate to $47 per hour - so use that number, not the numbers fed to you by the industry. That’s what wages should be if they had kept up with productivity and inflation over the past several decades.