Workers in Motor City weigh buyouts knowing that that their future pay will likely be much lesser. Tough times like this need tough decisions. And Detroit autoworkers have to make tough decisions as soon as possible.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger was earlier quoted as saying the weak economy could make buyouts at General Motors Corp. a tough sell. Moreover, union officials who represent Ford Motor Co. workers want to know whether enough of Ford’s 54,000 UAW members will accept the buyouts before Tuesday’s deadline.
Workers at the Dearborn-based automaker are getting the full-court press. The scenario covers some job fairs with workers hooking up prospective employers.
“It’s going pretty slow,” said Jerry Sullivan, head of UAW Local 600 in Dearborn. “If they didn’t take the last buyout, a lot of people’s circumstances haven’t changed that much for them to walk away now. A lot of them understand these kind of jobs with these wages, it’s not going to be easy for them to find again. I’ll let that speak for itself.”
The head of the United Auto Workers union unit at the Auburn Hills automaker said Wednesday the company may have fallen short of its goal of getting 10,000 workers to sign up […]

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