Alabama Mercedes Workers Reject UAW
I have worked at a couple of these non-union plants in the South. From my experience, as soon as plant leadership gets a whiff of union talk, suddenly a plant-wide “bonus” materializes out of thin air. As of 10-12 years ago, that bonus was $5-7K for every full-time employee. It placates the masses and tampers down union talk for a year or so. That is how most of them keep out unions, at least for a while.
I was listening to some discussions about this on NPR and one of the people they interviewed was a younger woman who says her labor isn’t valued enough and an older guy who says they make good money and they have good jobs why jeopardize it.… Continue reading
John Q. Hosedrinker