Hodgetwins dissect the UAW strike, contrasting GM CEO Mary Barra's $30 million salary with a proposed 20% worker pay increase, arguing she could halve her earnings to fund wages. They critique Republican opposition to a $15 minimum wage and reference an Australian CEO suggesting 40-50% unemployment restores balance. The discussion touches on historical racial injustices and controversial claims about Mexican frugality before concluding that extreme wealth disparity drives current labor unrest, urging corporate accountability over entitlement narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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UAW Strike and Livable Wages00:07:16
Yeah, I got a new show for y'all.
Got a damn good show.
I've been following this strike with the automobile workers and stuff.
Huh?
UAW.
UAW.
UAW?
What they on strike?
They don't strike.
They say they ain't paying them enough.
You know how that goes.
First, I thought it was a bunch of entitled Democrats think they...
No, man, some of these people, man, just because you're a capitalist, I mean, they confuse capitalists with a dictatorship.
Because some of these capitalists are, man, these people...
What these companies, these cars, these people.
Yeah, they run them like dictators.
They treat their employees like garbage.
Yeah, like slaves.
Yeah.
Hey, check out the people.
They should pay more, man.
They should take care of them more.
Because without your employees, you ain't got no business.
Of course you got the great ideas, but who's going to do it for you?
If you ain't got no workers, you can have the best ideas in the world.
You ain't got no employees.
You ain't got no workers to...
No, fuck it.
Like, you should pay your employers a livable wage.
I get that, but the business got to earn a profit paying that livable wage.
But check out what this CEO of GM said.
It's crazy.
Almost $30 million.
Why should your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the company?
We think we have a very competitive offer on the table, and that's why we want to get back there and get this done.
But if you're getting a 34% pay increase over four years, and you're offering 20% to employees right now, do you think that's fair?
Well, I think when you look at the overall, the overall structure and the fact that 92% is based on performance and you look at what we've been doing of sharing in the profitability when the company does well, I think we've got a very compelling offer on the table, and that's the focus I have right now.
Man, they ain't paying them employees nothing.
She's making 30 million.
She could actually cut her salary in half and she still be good.
15 million a year, she'd be good.
What you got?
Why you need 30 million dollars?
Because she's CEO.
I know she's the CEO, but...
So do you really need 30 million?
Why can't you take 29 million?
Why can't you take 28 million?
26?
Hell, I could be the CEO of GM.
And you know what?
I'm going to take care of my employees.
I take $12 million a year.
And my pay increases, I don't want the 30%.
Just give me 25.
Send the rest to the workers.
But was that caption correct?
They're only paying them $100 a day.
It's probably misleading.
Yeah, like, bring it back up.
I don't know the video.
I think minimum wage dollars a day.
I don't think that.
See right here, CEOs making $30 million paying workers $100 a day.
See at the bottom, that's what I want to touch on.
Republicans vote against raising minimum wage to $15 to $20 an hour.
Okay, minimum wage, $15 to $20 an hour working for GM should be easy to do.
But paying $15 to $20 an hour, I'd say $15 to $20 million.
Yeah.
$15 to $20 an hour for a minimum wage at gym should be easy to do.
Yeah.
At most jobs, it's easy to do.
At most, but $15 to $20 across the board for all jobs, it's not doable because it's based on the profitability of the company.
Yeah, and it's based on your job skills too.
Right?
But $15 an hour ain't nothing.
Yeah.
That ain't nothing.
You know what $15 an hour is?
Yeah, working in gym, yeah, that's nothing.
That ain't nothing.
You might as well not even pay them anything.
$20 is nothing.
$20, do the math.
$20 a day, $20 an hour, eight hours a day.
It's $160.
$160 times five, five days, 40 hours a week.
What'd that come out to?
You get it, man.
$800 a week.
Something like that.
Who can live on $800 a week?
Mexicans.
They can live off of $150 a week.
No, they can't.
They can.
It's about $500 men in one house.
Yeah.
They're real frugal people.
$15 to $20 is nothing.
Yeah.
And you know what?
And people like to conflate these things about livable wage and working wage and all that.
$15 to $20 is not a lot of money.
But at the bottom, it says Republicans refuse to raise a minimum wage.
Government should not dictate what the livable wage is or the minimum wage.
That should be up to the employees.
Employees should do the right thing, but I guess I see that point of view.
The government has to step in and say, hey, look, y'all ain't paying y'all's workers enough.
Yeah, like sometimes the government's got to step in, like they step in for the Negro.
Yeah.
Oh, that's right when they start integrating the schools.
Well, they had to step in for the Negroes.
And look, y'all need to stop treating these niggas like monkeys.
These are people too.
Man, what the hell's wrong with you?
They used to see us as monkeys.
What's wrong with you?
I mean, why you had to take it there?
That's what I'm saying.
I'm just painting a picture over here.
Now, sometimes the government do have to step in, and this guy I'm about to show you is a perfect example of why.
Check this dude out.
I think the problem that we've had is that we've, you know, we have people decided that they didn't really want to work so much anymore through COVID, and that has had a massive issue on productivity.
You know, tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity.
You know, they have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change.
We need to see unemployment rise.
Unemployment has to jump 40-50%, in my view.
We need to see pain in the economy.
We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.
I mean, there's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around.
So it's a dynamic that has to change.
We've got to kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is what the whole global, you know, the world is trying to do.
The governments around the world are trying to increase unemployment to get that to some sort of normality.
And we're seeing it.
I think every employer now is seeing it.
I mean, there is definitely massive layoffs going off.
People might not be talking about it, but people are definitely blame people off.
And we're starting to see less arrogance in the employment market.
And that has to continue because that will cascade across the cost balance.
That's the dude when you work for every year.
He's a year.
You did a good job.
You get a raise.
I'm giving you 50 cents an hour.
You do a good job.
You work harder.
Next year, I probably could give you 65 cents extra an hour.
That is crazy.
That dude said that in front of everybody.
I think he's Australian.
Yeah, them are Australians, man.
They are communists.
You see, even during the whole COVID, we were throwing people in those concentration camps.
They get sick, throw them in a concentration camp.
Greed Hurts the Working Class00:01:24
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm not for the government stepping in, setting a flat minimum wage, but man, when you got people like this.
Yeah.
Man, he was actually punish people, lay them off so they'd be more thankful to have a job.
Oh, yes, the boss, I come back and work real good for you.
Yes, boss, sir.
Yes, boss, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me back.
I was a lazy, sorry nigga.
I'm better for it now, so I understand, sir.
So I do whatever you want me to do, sir.
Look, don't get me wrong.
I'm a capitalist, but man, some of these employers, these corporations, they don't pay employees nothing.
These people are billionaires.
Well, what hurts socialism is greed by the high-ups, and what hurts capitalism is greed.
Yeah, the best between those two options is capitalist.
I'm sorry.
Damn, good show.
Sometime the government got coming and say, hey, man, you got to raise that minimum wage from $3 to $4.
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