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Comment by bluedino

2 hours ago

More people work for Target than the UAW

UAW pays better and is politically more powerful. They care more about UAW than Target employees

  • > UAW pays better

    In some cases:

    Target - in 2022 we enhanced our starting pay again, offering a range of $15 to $24 per hour

    UAW wages at the big three automakers start at $18 and top out in the $30's. Meanwhile, UAW jobs at suppliers can start as low as $14/hr. You're probably not going to get 20-30 hours of overtime a week at Target, though.

    Only 150,000 of the 380,000 UAW members are employed by the big three.

    You also have union skilled trades jobs (electricians, millwrights, etc) that make more than production workers but Target pays their electricians etc more than the retail workers as well.