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In recent news, the UAW has announced its agreement of a "two-tiered" wage plan, which would allow GM to top out the wages of new hires at $14/hour, receive minimal health care benefits for themselves and their families, and no pension plan.
Current GM workers receive as much as $24/hour, their health care benefits are paid by the company, and they receive a pension and full retirement benefits after 30 years.
Every day, I read in the papers about local manufacturing firms that are closing plants due to outsourcing to cheaper-wage third world countries.
Great! These companies are exporting jobs by the thousands, yet expect us to purchase the items they manufacture in China when they import them. With what money are we expected to pay for these items? If all of the "new" jobs that are created in my community to replace the old manufacturing jobs are service industry jobs at McDonalds and Wal-Mart, then the wages earned by workers won't even pay minimal rent in my county, much less a house purchase or raising a family.
If GM workers start earning $9-14/hour, just the same wages as at Wal-Mart, who is going to purchase the automobiles they produce?
NO, we don't want fries with that. We want jobs!