It's not the first time a union has picketed itself, but it's always good fodder for a post on irony. From The Detroit News: GM workers to picket over negotiated wage cuts. What you don't get out of the headline is that those workers are picketing not an assembly plant or management, but rather UAW headquarters!
Without the contract, the Orion plant will close. You know, I always wondered who the UAW would picket since Obama gave them a chunk of GM after the bailouts and bankruptcies. I guess this answers it. Not only is the UAW essentially negotiating with themselves, possibly a good thing since fiscal reality may have finally dawned on them, but they are picketing themselves too.Union dissidents will picket outside the UAW's headquarters on Saturday, Oct. 16, to protest contracts negotiated by UAW leadership that could cut some workers wages unless they transfer.
The protest will start at noon at Solidarity House. A main instigator is the UAW's announcement this week of a pay plan at General Motors' plant in Orion Township, which in August will start production of the smallest car built in the U.S. Under the contract, the most senior 60% of workers would receive the UAW's $28-an-hour wage, while the rest would make about half that. Workers laid off at the top wage who don't fall in the top 60% by seniority could seek transfers to other GM plants.
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