US car GM strikes a major impact on labor and management in a month Oct. 15 23:54
The strike for the first time in 12 years at GM = General Motors, the largest automaker in the United States, takes 15 days and is a full month, which is a long term. While negotiations are difficult, it seems that GM has already lost more than 100 billion yen, and its employees have greatly reduced their income.
In GM, where labor and management oppose each other to secure employment of employees and reduce the burden of medical expenses, 46,000 people went on strike for all factories in North America, and the strike period was 15 days and a whole month. It was.
In GM, there was a 67-day strike in 1970, but this time is the next.
At the Flint plant near Detroit, Michigan, where GM's head office is located, a large-scale rally was held by the labor union on the 13th, and the people gathered complained that the company was not returning profits. .
The company offers employment, new investments in factories, and regular salary increases, but the trade union is reluctant to increase so-called non-regular employees and negotiate Is difficult.
Due to the impact of the strike, GM has already forecasted losses of at least $ 1 billion and over ¥ 100 billion in the Japanese yen.
On the other hand, the employee side also has subsidies from the union, but the income has been reduced to about one-fifth of the normal, and both labor and management are greatly affected.
Employees who sell blood as a way to supplement their income
In order to support employees who have lost their income due to strikes, the UAW = US Auto Workers Union provides a maximum of $ 250 a week and over 26,000 yen in Japanese yen, but 5 minutes compared to normal income It means that it stays at about 1 of.
For this reason, the union provides food such as canned foods and daily necessities, but some employees sell their own blood to supplement their income.
GM went bankrupt after the 2008 Lehman shock. At the time, the union side cooperated in reducing the amount of pension payments, etc., when restructuring, but there was a persistent dissatisfaction that even if the business performance recovered, the company side did not fully return profits.
However, in the American media, the strike is a so-called “self-destructive act” that the unions faced by a decrease in union membership due to the increase in so-called non-regular employment, which is being done to tighten the organization. There is also.
It is also pointed out that UAW executives have been accused of misappropriating funds and inciting strikes to distract the members.