Interesting: GM employs 4000 low-paid unbenefited temps while 3,600 regular GM workers on layoff

[Hannah Bell]

In this article about the Indianapolis stamping plant vote, some other pertinent information about the *real* situation in the "new" GM:



GM workers reject concessions; Indianapolis plant in jeopardy


UAW-represented workers at General Motors Co.'s Indianapolis stamping plant on Thursday voted down a proposed 50 percent pay cut that was sought by a potential new owner of the plant, a union official said...UAW Local 23 shop chair Gregory Clark said today 416 hourly workers out of about 625 eligible union members traveled to the union hall to cast their no votes before a video camera...

Workers preferred to take their chances, he said, than take a pay cut that would have provided a straight-time annual salary below $30,000. That compensation would easily qualify a family of four for food stamps in Indiana, he said.

(Regional UAW International official Mo) Davison said transferring to another GM plant might not be easy given that 3,600 GM employees are now on layoff. But Clark said the Indianapolis workers and those GM workers on layoff would have first crack at GM factory jobs now held by about 4,000 temporaries, should GM decide to make those positions permanent.


Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100924/OEM/100929902/1424#ixzz10ZSXT9yu

[Nikki Stone1]

1. K & R

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[flyarm]

2. gee they love our money ..while fucking the American worker! what a nice deal they got !!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[toddwv]

3. Well duh...

How else are they going to find enough cash for the CEO's $9,000,0000 compensation package?

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/10/news/companies/GM_pay/index.htm

[Hannah Bell]

4. our loss = their gain. that's how it works.

[Scuba]

5. What? They couldn't find slaves.

[inna]

6. New Economic Policy.

Raw Deal.

:sarcasm:

(Of course, there is nothing "new" about it, but it had not been practiced against American workers quite so openly and brazenly.

It's an absolutely deliberate policy, btw, contrary to what most people think.)