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https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2019/09/27/gm-strike-mary-barra-pay-uaw-wages/3776066002/
Article above is from 2019, when the last contract was negotiated. It helps explain the breakdown of the different types of UAW employment. It also highlights the topic of temporary workers. Ford would like to use more as the opportunity presents itself, the union, less.
- Temporary workers' wages: $15-$19 per hour.
- A newly hired permanent production worker, called "in progression," makes about $17 an hour, which can rise to $28 an hour after eight years. [Wage increases of 8.13% a year.]
- A legacy worker, one hired before 2007, earns $28-$33 an hour.
- A skilled trades worker such as an electrician, plumber or machine repairman, about 15% of the Detroit Three's workforce, is closer to $35 to $36 an hour. They often earn overtime.
- Profit sharing: Temps get nothing. North American permanent hourly workers get, generally, $1,000 per every $1 billion an automaker makes in annual pretax profit.
- Temp workers pay more for health care for less coverage than permanent workers. They pay more out of pocket expenses, such as deductibles. They get no supplemental pay during layoffs and plant retooling. They get no retirement pay.
I attempted to get a general benefits summary for a typical UAW employee, but could not. Different plants, years and agreements, legacy employees versus new and temporary, etc. Retired or not. It can be very specific, sometimes down to who worked at what plant, when.
https://corporate.ford.com/content/...ers/2023-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf
Document above is for a new hire, a non-union package for a Ford General Salary Roll (GSR) employee. Page 2 of the document lays out the benefits non-union employees receive. From my experience, the GSR package is common for Fortune 100 and 500-level companies. For most of us "regular" folks, these packages are same for each. Salaried and executives can sometimes negotiate individual aspects of these packages.
For union and non-union employees, headline numbers and outliers grab attention. Most on either side have the same general package (union with one and non-union with theirs') of benefits, with their individual pay rates sometimes varying dramatically. For any employee, any job, top line pay numbers often list a 2080 hour work year, but not everyone books 2080. Lots of variables and outcomes, too many to list here.
Article above is from 2019, when the last contract was negotiated. It helps explain the breakdown of the different types of UAW employment. It also highlights the topic of temporary workers. Ford would like to use more as the opportunity presents itself, the union, less.
- Temporary workers' wages: $15-$19 per hour.
- A newly hired permanent production worker, called "in progression," makes about $17 an hour, which can rise to $28 an hour after eight years. [Wage increases of 8.13% a year.]
- A legacy worker, one hired before 2007, earns $28-$33 an hour.
- A skilled trades worker such as an electrician, plumber or machine repairman, about 15% of the Detroit Three's workforce, is closer to $35 to $36 an hour. They often earn overtime.
- Profit sharing: Temps get nothing. North American permanent hourly workers get, generally, $1,000 per every $1 billion an automaker makes in annual pretax profit.
- Temp workers pay more for health care for less coverage than permanent workers. They pay more out of pocket expenses, such as deductibles. They get no supplemental pay during layoffs and plant retooling. They get no retirement pay.
I attempted to get a general benefits summary for a typical UAW employee, but could not. Different plants, years and agreements, legacy employees versus new and temporary, etc. Retired or not. It can be very specific, sometimes down to who worked at what plant, when.
https://corporate.ford.com/content/...ers/2023-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf
Document above is for a new hire, a non-union package for a Ford General Salary Roll (GSR) employee. Page 2 of the document lays out the benefits non-union employees receive. From my experience, the GSR package is common for Fortune 100 and 500-level companies. For most of us "regular" folks, these packages are same for each. Salaried and executives can sometimes negotiate individual aspects of these packages.
For union and non-union employees, headline numbers and outliers grab attention. Most on either side have the same general package (union with one and non-union with theirs') of benefits, with their individual pay rates sometimes varying dramatically. For any employee, any job, top line pay numbers often list a 2080 hour work year, but not everyone books 2080. Lots of variables and outcomes, too many to list here.
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