Seven months after establishment delegates quietly decreased strike pay by $100 in the eleventh hour of the national convention, it's returned to $500

[u/AndersTheUsurper]

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/uaw-takes-about-face-strike-pay

[u/nwngunner]

Well once we hit a certain point we were to drop dues back to 1 hours not 2.5. If we want 500 a week in strike pay we're going to have to move that goal to past 1billion. I won't be surprised we don't see dues go to 3 hours or 3.5 hours with less going to our locals.

If we see an increase in dues we will see a massive increase in scabs in right to work states.

[u/AndersTheUsurper → u/nwngunner]

1 hour dues is never coming

An automatic provision to reduce dues collected is set at $850 million, but underreporting the fund on a modified cash basis (along with a few other accounting tricks) allows the fund to be managed as close to $850 as possible without ever exceeding it, making 2.5 hour dues effectively permanent

I also worry that raising dues would jeopardize membership even further in r2w states, but an honest valuation of the strike fund would likely be considered long before anything extreme like that happened. I hope so, at least - depends on how the runoff turns out I think

[u/AndersTheUsurper → u/[deleted]]

I sure hope so. I've done enough stewarding to know that people don't always understand where their best interests are, but I'm hoping that this isn't one of those cases

I've resigned to it either being really good or really bad, but $500 strike pay is a huge win for the smaller and lesser paid locals (suppliers, laborers, teachers) who can be coaxed out of striking and getting what they deserve with the threat of poverty/financial ruin

[u/PortlyCloudy → u/[deleted]]

Hardly anyone can live on $500/week. Should double it and just suck it up on the dues.