The worker's movement has reached a pivotal point as of recent today. It all started out with a strike against United Automobile Workers and GM. It was a strike over wages, health insurance premiums, and contracts. There was an amusement of UAW with a scandal of the leaders that had some charges of embezzlement of funds. Also, the strikers wanted to know what was going on at the bargaining table in Detroit.
This article from Nytimes has E. Tammy Kim a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times this author argues that UAW is fighting Gm and making their fight their own. While Kim was interviewing striking workers to see what they've done in the company and since technology has improved they operate robots to pick boxes off shelves. She also interviews some temp workers and they earn barely over the minimum amount which sounds outrageous. The fact that the strikers all know that there is always going to be a change in a company like GM.
I agree that workers should get higher pay and I'm with them on strike in order to get better pay. Even though they might be some corruption going on in the UAW or theories that could be created against UAW. Having higher wages and better health benefits is what everyone wants but what they want is not always going to happen that why GM said that it would be better for the strikers to go back to work rather then hold signs on the streets protesting. There is always going to be changed in a company and not everyone is going to like it whether it's for the best or worse.
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