How much does a UAW autoworker earn?

Newly hired non-core assembly workers earn approx. $14.25 per hour

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The corporate media are perpetuating the false perception that the average GM worker costs more than $70 an hour, once you include health and pension costs. The primary reason they spread this propaganda is to paint the UAW workers as a bunch of highly overpaid workers. The corporate media is not your friend. They are being deceptive for a reason because they have an agenda.

The average GM assembly-line worker makes about $28.50 per hour in wages, and by no means are they being payed $44.50 an hour in health insurance and pension plan contributions. The so-called $73 per hour figure is a ridiculous number obtained by adding up GM's total labor, health, and pension costs, and then dividing by the total number of hours worked. In other words, it includes all the healthcare and retirement costs of retired workers.

The primary reason for the difference in compensation between GM autoworkers and foreign company autoworkers is largely due to 'legacy' costs, the cost of a 100-year-old company honoring it's commitment to pay its retiree an surviving spouses pensions.

The hourly wage for a newly hired non-core assembly worker is $14.25, with minimal benefits.

Joe 1-5960

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