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the human resource laws of today are NOT enough. for every good company, there are ten that break laws, especially in warehousing. the biggest problem is workers lack of knowledge of their rights...knowledge that should and can be provided by the companies they work for. most companies take the tax break for providing the information yet keep their employees in the dark.
that being said, i blame both the companies and the unions. both need to learn to come to a middle ground. now, i know absolutely nothing about the bargaining agreements between the car companies and their workers, but if their are employees making $75/hr....despite being union myself i have to say thats kind of ridiculous. we just ratified a new contract at my place of business. our contract couldnt have ended at a worse time.
both us and the company managed to put greed aside and come up with something beneficial to both parties. nobody lost anything, but no side gained anything either. its a small price to pay to save families jobs and save the company i work for. where i work, only employees 1-308 are garanteed 40 hours a week. if we would have gotten overzealous on this contract employees 309-500 would have felt the weight of it.
sometimes you just gotta do whats right. $75/hr...regardless if the government bails them out or not, will end up picking up most of that tab through unemployment. im still having a hard time seeing them making 75/hr though. is that flat pay or their package with benefits included? even with benefits its still high. our package comes to roughly $50/hr including pay, pension and healthcare...and make no mistake, we have a GOOD healthcare plan and a very competitive pension. i would have to think their healthcare would be cheaper then ours because the size of their company DWARFS ours.
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