Thew United Auto Worker's union boss defended worker demands for higher pay saying companies could double wages and 'still make billions in profits.'
, and other foreign-owned automakers in the United States that utilize non-union-represented labor."
"They could double our wages and not raise the price of the vehicles and still make billions in profits. It's a choice. And the fact that they want to compare it to how pitiful Tesla pays their workers and other companies pay their workers, that's what this whole argument's about," Fain said on the program.
He added:"Workers in this country have got to decide if they want a better life for themselves, instead of scraping to get by paycheck to paycheck, while everybody else walks away with the loot." "We pay more than the UAW btw, but performance expectations are also higher," he wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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