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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]
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.
UAW President Shawn Fain — who ran for the top job on a “no corruption, no concessions, no tiers” slogan — has similarly said that the auto industry’s version of the practice creates a ...
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 ...
It eliminated a two-tier wage system for drivers and tentative deals on safety issues were also reached, including equipping more trucks with air conditioning. Hollywood studios and SAG-AFTRA
She said a two-tier wage system prevents newer employees from making the same financial gains as legacy autoworkers like herself and her late father, who spent 40 years at Ford.
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 ...