( at least for us coddled unionized workers, lol ).
As noted before, unions don’t have the influence in Shinyland that they had in the 70s. Now, for the vast majority of workers, recent pay increases can be taken away as easily as their company paid pension and retiree medical benefits were taken away.
The general public has also been brainwashed that unions are “bad”. The TV news calls union leadership “bosses”, like they are gangsters. TV news repeatedly reports on how corrupt some UAW officials were, but they hardly ever report on the equally corrupt officials at FCA. Even as a few “rogue underlings” at FCA went to the clink, the company itself only received a slap on the wrist.
FCA guilty in labor corruption scandal as auto industry marks new low
A Fiat Chrysler U.S. executive admitted Monday the automaker conspired to break federal labor laws by paying more than $3.5 million in bribes to union leaders, marking a new stain for an auto industry beset with scandals in recent years involving vehicle emissions and faulty equipment implicated in hundreds of deaths.
The $30 million fine is dramatically less than the $900 million rival General Motors Co. paid to settle claims for faulty ignition switches implicated in 400 injuries and deaths. It also is a fraction of the $800 million FCA paid two years ago to settle diesel claims, or the billions Volkswagen AG paid to atone for its global diesel scandal.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/20…
Steve