Markeis Womack was working a 10 hour shift as a janitor to supplement his Ford production line salary. Steven Summers has never had to worry about money, working on the same production line at Ford. The two work in different tiers at Ford, a system which creates vast differences in the compensation between new and legacy autoworkers.
, to save autoworkers’ jobs. At the height of the Great Recession, the autoworkers’ union conceded to lowering wages and reducing benefits for all hired after 2007 to keep the companies afloat.Labor historians say that U.S. employers across industries began implementing tiers in the 1990s as a cost-cutting tactic that simultaneously sowed workplace resentment between union workers who do the same job for different pay and benefits.
Womack said he had quit his second job at the cleaning company a couple of weeks earlier, because working 18-hour days meant he had no life outside work. Indeed, his life has started to fall apart. Summers, the 24-year Ford employee, said he has watched the quality of life for new hires at Ford disintegrate since he was a kid.
It can take close to a decade for lower tiered workers’ pay to catch up to those hired before 2007. At Ford, new hires now start full-time at $18.04 an hour. But even at the top of the pay scale, right now lower tiered workers get worse health care benefits and no company-financed health care in retirement or pension, compared with legacy employees. Lower tiered workers do receive 401 retirement accounts with a company contribution equaling 6.4 percent of workers’ wages.
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