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Originally Posted by big3worker
I am a 31 year gm hourly employee and i have seen alot of the problems over the years that has brought gm to where we are today from mismanagement to the union taking advantage of management. From the management side 1) buying out roger smith bad management 2) paying ross pero to shut up and go away bad management 3) buying fiat and selling at a huge loss bad management ect. ect. now from the union side 1) when i hired in 1978 things were good but what happened is gm overmanned i can remember from 1978 to early 1990's at the start of the work day they would get the line covered and running and about an hour into the shift they were coming around asking who wanted to go home because they had extra help 2-3 people per dept. day in day out at that time the union and management must not have realized that they were creating huge legacy costs with all that extra manpower for that i blame both party's 2) this one really erks me how many of you people had a neighbor or a relative who worked at a parts plant doing piece work so many parts a day and your done for years at these facility's you had people who would get there work done and they would go home and mow there lawn or play golf and there boss would punch them out who was at fault union or management ? i say both people get away with what they are allowed to get away with. and my last scenerio is this 3) we would have a tool break down we would call out skilled trades and they would tell us they could not fix it it was weekend work and you would call out the supervisor and he or she would tell you the same thing because they wanted to make there time and a half and double time management included how much money was spent during those times 70's 80' 90's a ton this is why the auto industry is in trouble because im sure what i saw at GM was happening at Ford and Chrysler as well.
now as for a solution, the bailout if the senate wants to open the contract with the UAW here is where they should start ( DO NOT CUT OUR WAGES ) my monthly bills are based on 40 hrs at my current wage but i am willing to give up some holidays and vacation time lets start there we get almost 10 weeks of per year paid and if you do not use your vacation you get paid an additional 5 weeks in january there are alot of people who do not use there vacation and double dip that is a ton of money x number of employees times 1 - 5 weeks of pay paid out in january is very expensive change the contract to force people to use vacation USE IT OR LOSE IT!!!! this would save the auto company's a ton also take away the extra holidays election day, week at christmas,veterans day , week in july, this would be better than cutting wages in half if you cut our wages in half we will need to have help with our mortgages and other expenses that are based on 40hrs times $30.00 does this make sense?????
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you are making some great points, but your post is near impossible to read. please try writing complete sentences that don't run on forever, and break up your thoughts into paragraphs.
and i totally agree with you on vacation - the union guys should have vacation more in line with what salaried people get - for instance I get about 13 holidays, and 15 vacation days. for the july shutdown, i am forced to use vacation days, so i end up with only 11 vacation days that i can use freely (runor is next year it might be two full weeks instead of one - i hope not).
of course, i haven't been here very long. some of the older guys get a lot more vacation.