Delegates at a United Auto Workers convention have voted to raise dues by 25 percent to shore up the union’s finances. Representatives voted by a show of hands to approve the increase from two hours of pay per month to two and a half hours. It will cost the average longtime autoworker who makes around $28 per hour about $14 more per month. The increase will raise $15 million per year for the union. The raise is the first in 47 years for the U.A.W., which has been selling assets and raiding its strike fund to pay operating expenses. Dues revenue has dropped nearly 40 percent since 2006 to $115 million as membership has fallen to about 391,000 today from a peak of 1.5 million in 1979.
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6 comments:
No sympathy... The ridicules wages they get for the work they do.. They can afford to give it to the union thieves. Unions are destroying America
Union membership is way down, so the union bosses need to shake down their rank and file to pay for their extravagant lifestyles
unions are part of the job problem..they help destroy the economy in modern times..like the buggy whip they are outdated...just thugs crooks and commies..die already
A dying breed, thank God. But when they are gone, there will become another need for them. It's a cycle, kinda like global temperatures.
Some unions were just born and are doing awesome things. There will be unions as long as corrupt excecs. continue to thrive and the workers lose out. If you think you can hire people cheaper then do so. Funny thing the companies all go to Mexico and pay 3 dollars an hour. Yet mexicans just keep filing into the U.S. Do the math idiots.
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Huh?
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