" There is nothing CEO can say to justify massive multimillion dollar give increases to their already bloated earnings while workers contend to pay economic rent . "
In 2023, American workers areofficiallyfed up.Inflation is hurting working families, and wages are remaining the same. This built-up frustration has led us into a season ofunions fighting for fair payacross industries.
I find that people need to make AT LEAST $ 30 / hour to subsist these days.and that ’s the minimum .
Last Friday,13,000 US Auto Workersjoined the"Hot Strike Summer"movement by walking off the job in protest for thefirst time in 88 years.
The United Auto Workers union launch a historical strike Friday against all three of Detroit ’s big automakers after its contracts expired , with the first picket blood beginning at a Ford plant in Wayne , Mich. , a General Motors industrial plant in Wentzville , Mo. , and a Stellantis plant…pic.twitter.com/Sjv35IUDsz
According toMSNBC, these are the United Auto Workers' list of demands:
“In the last four years, the price of cars went up 30%. CEO pay went up 40%… No one had any complaints about that, but God forbid the workers ask for their fair share,“UAW President Shawn FaintoldCNN.
One striker named Lee Maybanks, a second-generation Ford employee, told theWashington Post:“Look at UPS. UPS makes how much now? No disrespect, they deliver boxes. You know what we do? Go get one of those Bronco Raptors and turn it on. We build America.”
Thepublichas seemingly grown tired of seeing working people not being able to afford to live. According to a recentGallup poll, 75% of people surveyed sympathized with US Auto Workers over auto companies.
INCREDIBLE THINGS ARE happen IN AMERICA!!!!!https://t.co / I5aikPqMW5
Here’s how President Biden responded during a recentnews conference: “I understand the workers' frustration. Record corporate profits which they have, should be shared by record contracts for the UAW (United Auto Workers).”
The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, made things worse for herself by interviewing with CNN, where she was directly asked: “If you’re getting a 34% pay increase over four years, and you’re offering 20% to employees right now, do you think that’s fair?”
The CEO of General Motors just go on CNN and it go like this:“You’ve seen a 34 percent pay increment in your salary . You make almost 30 million . Why should your worker not get the same type of pay increases that you ’re getting leading the company?“pic.twitter.com / wFnCZD86RR
You can watch her full response for yourself, but in short, she used a lot of corporate media jargon to argue that it’s fair.
look like Mary Barra go to the Bob Iger School of I Should n’t Have Agreed to This Interview . There is nothing CEOs can say to justify monolithic multimillion dollar pay increases to their already bloated salaries while worker fight to pay rent.#PayYourWorkershttps://t.co/49GwbuiRr7
Another user challenged the CEO’s argument, writing: “Adding in the benefits and everything as a way to say it’s fair when you get those same benefits but a substantially larger wage…profit sharing is cool, but that does not change/improve the overall wage.”
Adding in the benefit and everything as a way to say it ’s fair when you get those SAME benefits but a well big wage .. gain sharing is cool but that does not change / improve the overall wage.https://t.co/BVIbATtVP8
Another user wrote: “As a former PR girly I really appreciate how hot strike summer has truly laid bare how much of corporate media strategy relies on an uninformed public.”
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Of course, not everyone is in support of the UAW strike. This was part of Senator and Republican Presidential Candidate Tim Scott’s response: “We’re seeing UAW fight for more benefits and less hours working… We have to find a way to encourage and inspire people to go back to work.”
