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The United Auto Workers union wants workers at Honda Motor Co.’s Ohio operations to join its ranks.

The UAW this week announced a national campaign to organize workers at the country’s auto plants that do not have representation.

That’s essentially all foreign-based manufacturers, including Honda’s multi-state production presence and Toyota, which counts a Georgetown, Kentucky plant among its assembly operations, as well as electric vehicle specialists Tesla and Rivian.

The UAW has yet to respond to requests about the organization efforts related to Honda and Ohio.

The nationwide organization push comes after the union negotiated new contracts with the three major domestic producers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — with benefits including a 25% increase in base pay and a 33% increase in the top wage.

Honda (NYSE: HMC) bases much of its North American production leadership in Marysville, in addition to running two auto plants, an engine plant and a transmission plant in the state, among other facilities. It employs an estimated 15,000 in Ohio.

“Over the past 40 years, no automaker has been more successful in growing its U.S. production operations than Honda, something we have done based on our approach of teamwork, respect and open communication, in addition to maintaining competitive wages and benefits,” Honda said in a statement. “We do not believe an outside party would enhance the excellent employment experience of our associates, nor would it improve upon the outstanding track record of success and employment stability Honda manufacturing associates in America have achieved.”

Honda, in the wake of the UAW deals with the domestic manufacturers, announced an 11% pay increase for production associates in the U.S. that will begin in January. The company also condensed its wage progression program to three years from six, increasing the rate that production associates receive pay increases.

The company said it has added 10 new benefits and programs since 2021 including childcare reimbursement, student loan repayment, lifestyle account, and expanded our associate assistance program.

The United Auto Workers union wants workers at Honda Motor Co.’s Ohio operations to join its ranks. The UAW this week announced a national campaign to organize workers at the country’s auto plants that do not have representation. That’s essentially all foreign-based manufacturers, including Honda’s multi-state production presence and Toyota, which counts a Georgetown, Kentucky plant among its assembly operations, as well as electric vehicle specialists Tesla and Rivian. The UAW has yet to respond to requests about the organization efforts related to Honda and Ohio. The nationwide organization push comes after the union negotiated new contracts with the three major domestic producers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — with benefits including a 25% increase in base pay and a 33% increase in the top wage. Honda (NYSE: HMC) bases much of its North American production leadership in Marysville, in addition to running two auto plants, an engine plant and a transmission plant in the state, among other facilities. It employs an estimated 15,000 in Ohio. “Over the past 40 years, no automaker has been more successful in growing its U.S. production operations than Honda, something we have done based on our approach of teamwork, respect and open communication, in addition to maintaining competitive wages and benefits,” Honda said in a statement. “We do not believe an outside party would enhance the excellent employment experience of our associates, nor would it improve upon the outstanding track record of success and employment stability Honda manufacturing associates in America have achieved.” Honda, in the wake of the UAW deals with the domestic manufacturers, announced an 11% pay increase for production associates in the U.S. that will begin in January. The company also condensed its wage progression program to three years from six, increasing the rate that production associates receive pay increases. The company said it has added 10 new benefits and programs since 2021 including childcare reimbursement, student loan repayment, lifestyle account, and expanded our associate assistance program.

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Honda employs a lot of contractors. According to estimates I've read, people indicate that 70% can be contractors in some departments. Much of their maintenance and gruntwork R&D is all contract, so good luck unionizing that.

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The FBI broke the mobs protection racket where a business would have to pay them protection money to stay in business. Now it's called union dues...

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I was part of an IBEW local for a while, the dues were fairly reasonable and they did get us a lot when the company decided to shut the doors. I did see some of that corruption that's ever-present in that kind of thing, but all in all it helped us regular folk quite a bit - especially when the company wanted to not give raises or anything one year.

Turned out they were lying about record profits so there really wasn't any money to give, but when all you have is a piece of paper that says "YAY MONEY!" you ask for some - and we got it.

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Honda employs a lot of contractors. According to some estimates I've read, people indicate that 70% can be contractors in some departments. Much of their maintenance and gruntwork R&D is all contract, so good luck unionizing that.

You're correct and they can't unionize those people. I am sure Honda got a chuckle out of what the UAW said.

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I'm sure they did.

Honda is a demanding place to work for regular employees, but they pay well. UAW may have a hard time getting to those people as well. However, there aren't as many regular employees that can be unionized as most think - lots of salaried people.

I know plenty of people that have worked at Honda, but very few (1 actually) that have worked FOR Honda.

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A few years ago when I was still in the consulting racket, I met people who were contractors at Honda. Come to think of it I don't think I know of anyone who works for Honda. Now I do know people who worked for Toyota down in Erlanger when the office was still there.

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Yes.

I've been called about numerous jobs at Honda over the years, none have been employees. One of my former co-workers there recently lost his contract gig when the UAW was on strike because it cancelled some battery project that was joint with another maker.