Detroit 3 are expected to add 36,000 Tier 2 jobs by 2015 (Tier 2 meamns LOW pay)

[DainBramaged]

The Detroit 3 are expected to add 36,000 factory jobs by 2015, all of them paying new-hire wages and benefits that are half of what is typically paid to traditional UAW autoworkers, economist Sean McAlinden said today.

The carmakers are producing near the limits of what the current UAW work force of 102,000 can do on maximum overtime, said McAlinden, who spoke with reporters on the sidelines of a lecture at Wayne State University here.

They will have to hire to increase production once all laid-off UAW members nationally are back to work by September, he said.

"They'll all be Tier 2 hires," said McAlinden, executive vice president of research at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.



Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110412/OEM01/110419957/1424#ixzz1JLNr0pzz

[cutlassmama]

1. well of course it's low pay and with 13.5 million people out of work

right now people will take the jobs and be grateful.

[DainBramaged]

2. take the jobs and be grateful

right, just take the low-paying job and be grateful.


$30,160 a year BEFORE taxes and all the other deductions they take.


take the jobs and be grateful


Sometimes I wonder who the enemy is, the Right-wing trying to suppress the middle class, or those in whatever class trying to push the middle class into the ditch.

[blunderbuss]

7. that's been the plan all along

that's why companies aren't hiring. keep unemployment high while they try to steal everything so you'll keep your head down, your mouth quiet and be thankful for the job they screw you with. until a year or 2 from now when everyone is screaming about the high wages of the tier 2 group and we create a tier 3 that pays half of what the tier 2 gets and so on and so on.
hopefully, by then, people will have awoken to what's going on and are more aggressive about stopping it. but i doubt it.

[OhioChick]

3. "new-hire wages" = slave wages

Shameful.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

4. I am guessing these will be the standing on your feet

bending, pushing, pulling and lifting all day, in other words very hard on the body. I don't know what it is about America that the harder the job is on your bones, the lower it pays. Since all the unions have been busted, that is.

[DainBramaged]

6. These people will receive minimum training.

Building cars is very very difficult, and requires a great deal of mechanical comprehension and dexterity, along with logic and reading ability. A hidden problem for the transplant factories in the South is getting employees with better than a grammar school education. What has been discovered is that (from discussions while the UAW has tried to penetrate these foreign factories) nearly 90 percent of applicants are initially rejected for failing basic comprehension tests and being sympathetic to unions. A UAW member receives extensive training, but another problem is that the average age of the UAW workforce is over 50, so in years to come, does anyone want their cars built by low-paid untrained Tier 2 workers?




http://campus.albion.edu/gsaltzman/files/2010/08/job_applicant_screening_1995.pdf

[Romulox]

5. Should I buy a Prius?

Uh, Solidarity (as long as you're not a blue collar worker!!!!)