I was in the Chemical Workers Union in the early 80's working at a granular fertilizer plant, and my top pay then was $6.80 an hour. Then in 2000 I went to work making frames for an automotive supplier, and as a UAW worker, I started at $11.00 an hour, and topped out 5 years later at $16.29 an hour. A lot of folks talk about how overpaid the union workers are, but I don't think $32,000 a year is a huge amount of money these days...not when some investment bankers are making several MILLION dollars a year, and they create NO product. As a UAW worker, we received an annual "profit sharing" that went into our 401(k) account [notice...I said "401(k), and NOT a company-sponsored pension plan]. So in order to make the company contribution to our profit sharing account larger, it was in our OWN SELF-INTEREST to do our best to help the company make maximum profits.
Yet there are still those who will cite the UAW as one of the unions that are "anti-company." I don't guess I'll ever understand why some folks think that way...but then, some folks never let facts get in the way of their opinions, which are always 100% correct, in their own eyes.
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