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    Management is dividing workers by implementing a two-tier wage system that pays new hires and temporary workers significantly less than long-term workers. This threatens the higher paid workers and undermines union solidarity. While companies claim lower wages are needed to compete with non-union automakers, the facts show the Detroit Three's average labor costs are comparable or higher than Toyota's U.S. plants. The document calls on UAW members to vote down any contracts that continue two-tier wages and demands fairness for all workers through equal pay.

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    Management is dividing workers by implementing a two-tier wage system that pays new hires and temporary workers significantly less than long-term workers. This threatens the higher paid workers and undermines union solidarity. While companies claim lower wages are needed to compete with non-union automakers, the facts show the Detroit Three's average labor costs are comparable or higher than Toyota's U.S. plants. The document calls on UAW members to vote down any contracts that continue two-tier wages and demands fairness for all workers through equal pay.

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    END 2 Tier Flyer

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    Management is dividing workers by implementing a two-tier wage system that pays new hires and temporary workers significantly less than long-term workers. This threatens the higher paid workers and undermines union solidarity. While companies claim lower wages are needed to compete with non-union automakers, the facts show the Detroit Three's average labor costs are comparable or higher than Toyota's U.S. plants. The document calls on UAW members to vote down any contracts that continue two-tier wages and demands fairness for all workers through equal pay.

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    End Two-Tier & Defend Union Solidarity!

    Its an old game with a new twist: managementdividesussothatwesquabblewitheachother, whiletheyenrichthemselvesattheexpenseofourSistersandBrothers.Theysliceusupinmanywaysby race,na onality,gender,sexualorienta on,religion,andagegivingpreferen altreatmenttoonegroup, whiletrea ngothersasinferior.This metheyreusing ered wages. Entrylevelworkersmakehalfpay, whilesocalledlongtermsupplementalsandtemporaryworkerswaitindenitelytobemade permanent.Manyworkersinsidetheplantsnowworkforoutsidecompanies,someforasli leas$10an hour.AtsomeFordplantstheymakedierentlypaidworkersweardierentcoloreduniforms! Two-tier contracts mean barely livable wages andinferiorbenetsfornewhires,whichthe bossesusetothreatenandunderminethehigherpaidworkers.ManagementsgoalistopushUAW workersdowntothelevelofnonunionplantslocatedinsocalledrighttowork(forless)states,by elimina ngthe1st erworkers.Think it cant happen in your plant?LookatwhathappenedatGMsLake OrionAssembly:lastyearGMandtheUAWsecretlyagreedtoforce40%ofthe1st erworkerstotake50% paycutsdownto2nd er.(Workerswhorefusedthis$30,000/yr.paycutweregiventwoweekstorelocate 250milesawaytoanotherplantinanotherstate!)Theirexcuse:makingsmallcarsrequiressmallwages. Butthecompaniesarealreadypayinglessforlaboronsmallcars,becauseittakeslesslabortobuild them. They say that we cant end two-tier contracts becausethatwillmakeusuncompe vewith Toyotaandtheothernonunioncompanies.What are the facts?AccordingtoaReutersar clebyBernie Woodall,TheDetroitautoworkersnowhaveanaverageallinlaborcostofabout$49anhourforChrysler, $58perhourforFord,andareported$60forGM,comparedwithbetween$50and$55perhourfor Toyota'sU.S.plants.DoesUAWPresidentBobKingplantonego atethe$49/hr.gureforalltheDetroit Three,onthebacksofthe2nd erworkers?WontToyotarespondbyreducingtheirwages?Wheredoesit end?TheUAWmustghtagainsttheracetothebo om,notaccelerateourdeclineinanunwinnable compe onamongworkers. All of the companies are taking advantage of the high unemploymentbroughton byWallSt.recklessnessandcorporategreedtogetthosedesperateforajobtoworkforlowerwages. ChryslerCEOSergioMarchionnesaidasmuchwhenhetoldtheUAWthatautoworkersmustaccepta culture of poverty.Thatsnotacceptable,especiallywhentheexecu vesaremakingmillions,andthe companiesarerakinginbillionsinprots. We must demand fairness. Ifournego atorslistenonlytothecompaniesandbringuscontracts withtwo,threeorfourwage erswe must vote noasmany mesasittakestogetitright.

    Equal pay

    Vote No til we end tiered wages!

    www.Autoworker Caravan.org

    = Union Solidarity!
    3138633219

    4 equal work
    autoworkercaravan@gmail.com
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