Wow that article is disingenuous and opinionated. UAW with Ford (and others) took a significant pay cut total hourly including benefits went from over $70 all the way down to $55. Now UAW wants to get some what they gave up to help the companies during the great recession of 2008 now that those same companies are making record profits. That seems completely reasonable position to take. Wages have not kept up with inflation for DECADES. The rational thing to do would be to try to push wages to make up for those year over year effective losses.

So here’s the reference to UAW taking a pay cut in 2008 reuters.com/…/ford-uaw-deal-cuts-wages-to-55-an-h… Pretty sure it was not only Ford and this isn’t the only article about it.