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Workers strike back against two-tiered wage and benefit systems that they say will hurt workplace morale, cripple their unions and lead to high turnover.
Tiered wage proposals that help companies cut costs but that unions say cheat new workers out of pay and retirement benefits. At John Deere and Kaiser, organized labor prevailed in stripping tiered wage systems from the proposals during collective bargaining sessions—a big victory, but one that required each union to flex the ...
Two-tier wage systems are not new. They proliferated in the 1980s and made a comeback in the Great Recession when unemployment was high. In tough times, companies say moving new hires to a...
A two-tier system is a type of payroll system in which one group of workers receives lower wages and/or employee benefits than another. [1] The two-tier system of wages is usually established for one of three reasons:
Progress has been made in negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters as they reached a tentative deal on a notorious two-tier wage system.
Two-tiered approaches put workers in two categories. Current employees keep their existing wages and benefits, while new employees get lower pay and fewer benefits.
Tier-two workers in the automobile industry can receive less than half as much in hourly wages as top-tier workers, depending on the automaker and the contract.
One of the top goals of the United Auto Workers, which began striking at three plants early Friday, is to eliminate “tiered” compensation at the Big Three U.S. carmakers — General Motors, Ford...
In a two-tier wage system, the business owner negotiates with the union to install two separate wage structures for existing and new workers. Existing members of the union continue to receive pay, wage increases and benefits as defined by the previous agreement.
Two-tier wage systems have been economically attractive to both employers and unions. Employers see reductions in the cost of hiring new workers.