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Wes,
I'm actually interested in reading the contract. The UAW seems to post highlights, and not the actual contract. There is one part that I found that says:

"The proposed agreement maintains the Independence Day week shutdown at GM. During the week of the Independence Day holiday, seniority UAW workers will receive four days (32 hours) off at their regular rate of pay, including shift and seven-day operation premiums. Eligibility is unchanged from the 2003-2007 agreement.
Over the term of the proposed agreement, the 32 hours of shutdown pay are worth an average of $950 each year for a typical GM assembler."

This breaks down to a little under $30 per hour 'for a typical GM assembler'. Perhaps they have other job categories that I am not aware of, perhaps they have a handful of members that make $300 per hour - I don't trust the UAW to freely provide any information that is going to make them look bad to the public.

Jamo,
You have my attention. I enjoy history (I think you know that); I'm familiar with Hitler and the attitudes of American businessmen of the day.

I saw the line in that first contract forbidding union recruiting on company grounds - when/how did it become all union - they don't have a choice if they want to work in a union plant, right? A friend of mine at NET was a union worker, but refused to go on strike during the big one in '89 or so. She still had to pay union dues afterwards, but she said she no longer had union protection.

Steve