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Blackcar

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Gen-Z are in the workforce now. Why do they even need to work at all to earn a salary? Companies should just pay them for being alive.
You know eighter we raised them, or our children did and spent time at dinner table with us.
If this statement is even true.
 
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Interesting. No strike expansion and this bit in Post.
"Fain said GM “has now agreed in writing to place their electric battery manufacturing under our national master agreement,” a step he called a major win. Fain said GM’s decision was prompted by the union’s threat to expand the strike to an additional GM factory in Arlington, Tex., that makes some of the company’s most popular and profitable SUVs, including the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, and Cadillac Escalade"
 

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Interesting. No strike expansion and this bit in Post.
"Fain said GM “has now agreed in writing to place their electric battery manufacturing under our national master agreement,” a step he called a major win. Fain said GM’s decision was prompted by the union’s threat to expand the strike to an additional GM factory in Arlington, Tex., that makes some of the company’s most popular and profitable SUVs, including the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, and Cadillac Escalade"

It's been said... what if they will win the battle but lose the war when the Big 3 can no longer be competitive against import and Tesla's profit margins due to Big 3 labor costs.
 

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It's been said... what if they will win the battle but lose the war when the Big 3 can no longer be competitive against import and Tesla's profit margins due to Big 3 labor costs.
Yeah, Assembly line labor costs run about 8-10% of final finished cost. Record salaries to everyone else in Big3, 3+years of record profits kinda make that pearlclutching doom/gloom argument seem weak for THIS time/place.
 
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It's been said... what if they will win the battle but lose the war when the Big 3 can no longer be competitive against import and Tesla's profit margins due to Big 3 labor costs.
That doesn't make any sense to me. GM had $21B in Gross Profit, and $9B in Net Income last year. There are ~46,000 UAW workers at GM making an average of $28/hr...40% increase is $40/hr, so an increase of $12/hr/worker. That for a full-time person at 2,080 hours that comes out to a total labor increase of $1.1B.

So you whack off a billion to pay labor more and they are still netting $8B. Those profits are insane.

GM doesn't need to pass that 'loss' of $1B on to the customer, they are still netting insane amounts of money.
 

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Um … that 1 billion in lost revenue lowers the stock price which in turn lowers the executives’ pay … how dare you suggest the hard working Mary Barra lower her salary from $29 million a year to $22 million. That’s a 25% pay cut you heartless monster.
 

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Um … that 1 billion in lost revenue lowers the stock price which in turn lowers the executives’ pay … how dare you suggest the hard working Mary Barra lower her salary from $29 million a year to $22 million. That’s a 25% pay cut you heartless monster.
This made me think of an episode from south park..

 
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