{"id":94,"date":"2007-09-24T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:23:56","slug":"uaw-officials-negotiating-for-forced-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/uaw-officials-negotiating-for-forced-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW Officials Negotiating for Forced Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UAW union bosses are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070924\/UPDATE\/709240402\">threatening<\/a> to order autoworkers at General Motors plants across the country off the job at 11 am. As per usual when union officials order strikes, expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrtwc.org\/blog\/archives\/166\">threats and\/or violence<\/a> against employees who wish to continue working to support their families.<\/p>\n<p>But for all the media attention this strike will receive, one under-reported fact is that high on the list of UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger and the other top union officials\u2019 list of demands is the ability to force nonunion employees into their forced unionism ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The Youngstown, Ohio <i>Vindicator<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/content\/local_regional\/318115348581118.php\">reported<\/a> in late August that the ability to forcibly organize nonunion employees is a sticking point in negotiations all around the country:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\tIn the current talks, Automotive News reported that UAW officials in Detroit are allowing GM assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Lansing, Mich., to negotiate two-tier wage systems. Nonproduction workers would be paid roughly half as much as production workers. \t<\/p>\n<p>\t<b>In return, the UAW would organize nonunion suppliers<\/b> that handle parts sequencing, building maintenance and nonproduction tasks, the trade publication said. \t<\/p>\n<p>\tUnion sources reported that UAW officials around the country are considering such arrangements. \t<\/p>\n<p>\t [emphasis added] \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That negotiating demand was echoed again in a September 14th <i>Detroit News<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070914\/OPINION01\/709140313\/1008\/opinion01\">editorial<\/a> that noted \u201cthe UAW is still holding to the position that it must have veto power over plant closings and contracts issued to nonunion suppliers in exchange for the other concessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what do rank-and-file workers think of the fact that union officials are willing to make \u201cconcessions\u201d just for the ability to swell their forced dues-paying ranks&#8217; Sadly, many are probably unaware of the union officials\u2019 self-serving demands.<\/p>\n<p>But if they did know, their reaction might be like the one <a href=\"\/blog\/card-check-bullying\">Mike Ivey<\/a> had when he found out that UAW union officials were holding up a promised pay raise in an effort to force him and his coworkers into the UAW union.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAW union bosses are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070924\/UPDATE\/709240402\">threatening<\/a> to order autoworkers at General Motors plants across the country off the job at 11 am. As per usual when union officials order strikes, expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrtwc.org\/blog\/archives\/166\">threats and\/or violence<\/a> against employees who wish to continue working to support their families.<\/p>\n<p>But for all the media attention this strike will receive, one under-reported fact is that high on the list of UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger and the other top union officials\u2019 list of demands is the ability to force nonunion employees into their forced unionism ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The Youngstown, Ohio <i>Vindicator<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/content\/local_regional\/318115348581118.php\">reported<\/a> in late August that the ability to forcibly organize nonunion employees is a sticking point in negotiations all around the country:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\tIn the current talks, Automotive News reported that UAW officials in Detroit are allowing GM assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Lansing, Mich., to negotiate two-tier wage systems. Nonproduction workers would be paid roughly half as much as production workers. \t<\/p>\n<p>\t<b>In return, the UAW would organize nonunion suppliers<\/b> that handle parts sequencing, building maintenance and nonproduction tasks, the trade publication said. \t<\/p>\n<p>\tUnion sources reported that UAW officials around the country are considering such arrangements. \t<\/p>\n<p>\t [emphasis added] \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That negotiating demand was echoed again in a September 14th <i>Detroit News<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070914\/OPINION01\/709140313\/1008\/opinion01\">editorial<\/a> that noted \u201cthe UAW is still holding to the position that it must have veto power over plant closings and contracts issued to nonunion suppliers in exchange for the other concessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what do rank-and-file workers think of the fact that union officials are willing to make \u201cconcessions\u201d just for the ability to swell their forced dues-paying ranks&#8217; Sadly, many are probably unaware of the union officials\u2019 self-serving demands.<\/p>\n<p>But if they did know, their reaction might be like the one <a href=\"\/blog\/card-check-bullying\">Mike Ivey<\/a> had when he found out that UAW union officials were holding up a promised pay raise in an effort to force him and his coworkers into the UAW union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UAW Officials Negotiating for Forced Dues - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/uaw-officials-negotiating-for-forced-dues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UAW Officials Negotiating for Forced Dues - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UAW union bosses are currently threatening to order autoworkers at General Motors plants across the country off the job at 11 am. 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