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One Ultium worker said the new contract—under which production workers will get $35 by late 2027—"enables me to just go ahead and move forward in life rather than living from paycheck to paycheck."
In addition to $35 an hour, the new contract includes an immediate $3,000 bonus, four full-time on-site union health and safety representatives, and a full-time union industrial hygienist at the Lordstown plant.his signature climate and jobs law, the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes incentives for automakers to ramp up EV manufacturing.
"Payoffs for layoffs have to stop," he said nearly three decades ago. And he was absolutely correct to point out the problem of rewarding profitable companies with huge government contracts amid corporate mergers and mass firings. teamed up with Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey to stop the Pentagon from reimbursing defense contractors for merger expenses. Writing in thethat these tax-payer financed mergers would add to the more than 2.
The Democrats could begin to rectify this vexing problem by putting the “No Payoffs for Mass Layoffs” plank in their 2024 platform. Organize pickets and publicize how a mass layoff is likely to cause great harm to workers, their families, and their communities. "All these workers ever wanted was a fair shot at having a voice on the job and a say in their working conditions," the UAWin a statement. "And that's what we're asking for here. Let's get a vote at Mercedes in Alabama where the company isn't allowed to fire people, isn't allowed to intimidate people, and isn't allowed to break the law and their own corporate code, and let the workers decide.
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