American Axle Makes New Offer to UAW to Settle 7-Week Strike

People at american axle needs to accept the wage and benefit cut. They will have to learn to live off of $14.00 an hour and learn to know what you can and can't afford. I agree that the CEO and management wages and benefit needs to be cut down to $20.00 and $30.00 an hour first and then cut lower paid employees, but we all know that they aren't going to cut their pay. You might as well take the wage and benefit cut because the company is going to get what they want and the employees are not. You are saying that you can't live off of the $14.00 an hour and they close the company you won't have a job then and the company will move out of US and open another company were people will work for less than $14.00 an hour. Are they will fire all employees and hire new employees to work, because there is people out there who will be glad to have a job working for $10.00-$14.00 an hour. And then they will kick the union out of this company and it will become a non-union company. I have heard all the company has to do is
close down the company for 30 days and then they can reopen and become a non-union company. I work at Delphi company and we had to take a $15.00 an hour, my family has learned to live off of this, and the union we have is watching out for themselves not for the employees and we pay union due for nothing. We are suppose to get paid up to $20,000 for suggestions to help save the company money if they use your suggestion you got paid for it. I know several people who has suggestion that has got used and still being used that was suppose to get the $20,000 and got $3500 instead they have got the paper work showing how much the saving is and how much it has/is saving the company. The union was called in and they didn't do anything about it. Also our contract was signed August, 2007 and they have been changing things in the contract. They tell us we all have subpay, etc. and in January 2008 they said things have changed that we don't have subpay,etc. We ask to see our
contract nobody don't have a copy of it so we don't know what we have/had in the contract.

People at american axle needs to accept the wage and benefit cut. They will have to learn to live off of $14.00 an hour and learn to know what you can and can't afford. I agree that the CEO and management wages and benefit needs to be cut down to $20.00 and $30.00 an hour first and then cut lower paid employees, but we all know that they aren't going to cut their pay. You might as well take the wage and benefit cut because the company is going to get what they want and the employees are not. You are saying that you can't live off of the $14.00 an hour and they close the company you won't have a job then and the company will move out of US and open another company were people will work for less than $14.00 an hour. Are they will fire all employees and hire new employees to work, because there is people out there who will be glad to have a job working for $10.00-$14.00 an hour. And then they will kick the union out of this company and it will become a non-union company. I have heard all the company has to do is
close down the company for 30 days and then they can reopen and become a non-union company. I work at Delphi company and we had to take a $15.00 an hour, my family has learned to live off of this, and the union we have is watching out for themselves not for the employees and we pay union due for nothing. We are suppose to get paid up to $20,000 for suggestions to help save the company money if they use your suggestion you got paid for it. I know several people who has suggestion that has got used and still being used that was suppose to get the $20,000 and got $3500 instead they have got the paper work showing how much the saving is and how much it has/is saving the company. The union was called in and they didn't do anything about it. Also our contract was signed August, 2007 and they have been changing things in the contract. They tell us we all have subpay,etc. In November 2007 and December 2007 we had down weeks and the union brought the papers to us to sign to get subpay and we got our subpay checks. In January 2008 we had down week again and we the same ones took down week and that when they told us things have changed that we don't have subpay,etc. You don't have subpay one time and not the next and when you have a contract things can't be changed so we don't know what the union is doing and what is going on. We ask to see our contract nobody don't have a copy of it so we don't know what we have or even had in our contract.

When I was a kid in the 70's my parents were always talking about how the unions would break Americas back. The companies have been moving out of the country for years, and it is now REALLY getting bad. I'm sure the American Axle workers are a great hard working bunch of guys with nice families they have to support. That being said, shut up and go back to work. Times are tough all over the country, especially in WNY!! How long do you think people (who wish they had good paying jobs) will feel sorry for you walking a picket line.
These people better get back to their jobs. Having a union job for years, they will sure be surpised when they have to actually WORK HARD (for less pay) and they can't work at a snails pace.
Life is tough for most of us, do you think people like working at crappy jobs, with no money.

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