Unless, of course, you support UAW bullsh!t such as this.....................
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Jobs bank programs -- 12,000 paid not to work
Big 3 and suppliers pay billions to keep downsized UAW members on payroll in decades-long deal.
By Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
Morris Richardson II / The Detroit News
Laid-off GM worker Socorro Tijerina sorts donated clothes as part of a community service effort organized by the UAW.
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With thousands of laid off autoworkers costing the auto industry hundreds of millions of dollars for their jobs banks, is it time the auto industry shed itself of this program?
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WAYNE -- Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits.
"We just go in and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I've just sat."
Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers and Delphi Corp. as part of an extraordinary job security agreement with the United Auto Workers union.
The jobs bank programs were the price the industry paid in the 1980s to win UAW support for controversial efforts to boost productivity through increased automation and more flexible manufacturing.
Big 3 and suppliers pay billions to keep downsized UAW members on payroll in decades-long deal.
By Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News
Morris Richardson II / The Detroit News
Laid-off GM worker Socorro Tijerina sorts donated clothes as part of a community service effort organized by the UAW.
Close out jobs bank?
With thousands of laid off autoworkers costing the auto industry hundreds of millions of dollars for their jobs banks, is it time the auto industry shed itself of this program?
Yes
No
Get results and comments
Previous coverage
Delphi: GM, UAW deal soon -- or else
Miller says Delphi can no longer afford jobs banks, some plants
UAW says Delphi asks too much
GM to hire 900 at Orion plant
GM may close more factories
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Send this story to a friend
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WAYNE -- Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits.
"We just go in and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I've just sat."
Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers and Delphi Corp. as part of an extraordinary job security agreement with the United Auto Workers union.
The jobs bank programs were the price the industry paid in the 1980s to win UAW support for controversial efforts to boost productivity through increased automation and more flexible manufacturing.
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And lets not forget the other absurd benifits that in total add well over a thousand dollars to the price of every car that rolls off the line.
Fk GM, let her go 13 as many airlines did not too long ago. It's time to dump the UAW and start over.......
