Boeing workers accept contract they would have liked to reject
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"Lump-sum bonus"
The "lump-sum bonus" concept is not unique to Boeing. It is simply another gimmick concocted by big business to swindle working people out of what is rightfully theirs. Bonus payments are less costly to companies. They do not count in the calculation of overtime, travel time, sick pay, vacations, or pensions. As one AFL-CIO official stated, it is nothing more than a "money illuBut it is an illusion that corporations will use again and again as long as they are allowed to get away with it. Working people, straddled with house payments, car payments, insurance, medical bills, food bills, etc., will find it difficult to reject a "quick fix" to their financial burdens. Boeing timed their bonus payments to come out just before the Christmas holiday spending spree.
Today about 44 percent of the 6 million people covered by major collective bargaining agreements receive bonuses or profit-sharing payments. At my workplace, our union is now setting up a committee to "explore non-traditional pay concepts."
This insidious trend must be halted in its steps. Union leaders and activists must explain that the company's concept of "profit sharing" translates to nothing more than "ripoff." As one corporation's jingle puts it, "You work an honest day, you deserve an honest deal." And that means better wages and benefits, not sham bonuses.
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