Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers

[KentuckyWoman]

140. I've never understood where that $40 an hour came from

My husband retired from Ford in 2005 and never made more than $22 an hour on the line .....but there were pay and benefit concessions starting in the mid 80's. The wage concessions after 2000 his hourly was around $20. I would expect the other big unions shops to be about the same.

People doing the same work for Ford now are at $12-15 an hour I think and the benefits have degraded even more.

I'm sorry, I really don't mean to challenge you. Obviously you are pointing out the younger workers are getting a lot less for the same work .... not sustainable for supporting middle class. I'm just saying I've never understood where those often quoted high dollar wage figures come from.

Now who I will really take issue with (not you) are the folks who weren't lucky enough to get a decent union job and get on the "gold plated" "cadillac" bandwagon out of hatefulness someone managed to have anything mildly decent instead of joining those union workers to demand the same for ALL workers.


Now all that said, I can't stand ACA. I want medicare for all. That's the only thing I see that is sustainable long term.