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On October 25, a tentative agreement was reached between the UAW and Ford; it includes an 11% wage increase in the first year, and total 25% increase in wages over the 4.5 year contract, a $5,000 ratification bonus and a cost-of-living adjustment. When including cost-of-living adjustments, total pay could be raised by 30%.
A second-tier wage of $14.50 an hour, which applies only to newly hired workers, is lower than the average wage in non-union auto companies in the Deep South. [47] One of the benefits negotiated by the United Auto Workers was the former jobs bank program, under which laid-off members once received 95 percent of their take-home pay and benefits.
The employer wishes to reduce overall wage costs by hiring new employees at a wage less than the wage of incumbent workers. [1] [2] A much less common system is the two-tier benefit system, which extends certain benefits to new employees only if they receive a promotion or are hired into the incumbent wage structure. [3] [4] [5]
UAW workers hired after 2007, for example, are granted 401(k)s instead of defined pensions. In 2021, workers at health care giant Kaiser Permanente and the cereal maker Kellogg authorized strikes ...
The UAW is pushing automakers to eliminate the two-tier wage system under which new hires can earn far less than veterans. Long walkouts at factories producing large pickup trucks could cost the ...
WAYNE, Michigan (Reuters) -Striking auto workers converged on a Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of Detroit on Friday morning to show their support for the most ambitious labor action in ...
The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers.
UAW Local 4811 is the local union of United Auto Workers representing academic student employees, graduate student researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and academic researchers at 10 campuses of the University of California system and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with the exception of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.