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GM hires temps for $14 to try to keep plants running (labornotes.org)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/5949760

In 2019, picketers able to prevent scabs from entering for a while, until company called in police. “We barely can make it but they got generational wealth. They got enough money for their kids’ kids’ kids to have money, but I’m struggling to just get my kid to college.” After 2019 strike, workers spent months fixing quality control issues. “We were fixing parts over six months because they f***ed up everything they touched.”

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

"We’ve got people that were making $16 an hour in our plant,” said Barney Hennessy, a strike captain at the Swartz Creek parts depot, who has worked there 38 years. “You can go to Target or McDonald’s and make more money than that. It’s hard to get people to stay in our plants because they're not making a lot of money. All we’re trying to do is bring everybody up to the same amount of wages, so everybody can enjoy the kind of living that we used to enjoy before inflation.”