Huh, billionaire boss says unions are bad. Weird. You know, if this were true it should be trivial for a bean counter to hold up a piece of paper with all the math on it saying, “here are the company costs vs income before and after union asks are met.” Of course they would have to enumerate all the executive salaries and money reserved for stock buybacks, etc so everyone can have a real idea of where all the money is going.
For real, I can’t imagine caring what any of these shitheads think. It’s always just rationalizing why they should get to keep all the shit they have and everyone else should suffer for it.
If Elon Musk says these demands are unreasonable, then they must be great. I hope they get everything they’re asking for and more.
Wow that article is disingenuous and opinionated. UAW with Ford (and others) took a significant pay cut total hourly including benefits went from over $70 all the way down to $55. Now UAW wants to get some what they gave up to help the companies during the great recession of 2008 now that those same companies are making record profits. That seems completely reasonable position to take. Wages have not kept up with inflation for DECADES. The rational thing to do would be to try to push wages to make up for those year over year effective losses.
So here’s the reference to UAW taking a pay cut in 2008 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ford/ford-uaw-deal-cuts-wages-to-55-an-hour-idUSTRE52A3YQ20090311 Pretty sure it was not only Ford and this isn’t the only article about it.
