For dad, UAW fight to help Detroit 3 temp workers is personal (check out the solidarity shirt)

[Omaha Steve]

I can't figure out the problem in the photo to display the shirt. You will have to use the link to view it. I WANT ONE just like it!

OS

http://www.freep.com/article/20110411/BUSINESS01/104110346/1164/col10/For-dad-UAW-fight-help-Detroit-3-temp-workers-personal?odyssey=nav|head

Apr 11, 2011

BY BRENT SNAVELY

DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Scott Houldieson and his daughters are at the center of a hot-button issue in this year's labor talks with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler: the indefinite use of temporary workers.

Houldieson, 50, is the financial secretary for UAW Local 551 in Chicago, where Ford hired 750 temporary workers at about $15 per hour to make Ford Explorers. His two daughters -- Jennifer Dahl and Terri Houldieson -- are among the temps who can be let go at any time.

"You are working right next to somebody that is making twice the wage as you are," Houldieson said of the temp workers. "They have full protection while the others are kind of hanging there."

Ford -- the UAW's likely target in contract talks this year -- has about 2,000 temporary workers making about the same wage as new permanent workers at GM and Chrysler, but without any job security.

"There are some temporaries at all three companies," UAW President Bob King said last week. "We don't want anybody on temporary status long-term."

Ford sees a temporary work force as more competitive.

FULL story at link.