Posted on 11/21/2008 11:20:17 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
WASHINGTON - Congress returns after Thanksgiving to decide whether to approve a $25 billion loan to General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford. The future of United Auto Workers members in Michigan and other states is at stake.
“It appears to me we possibly have one too many auto makers,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who opposes the loan.
But he said, “even if they went through Chapter 11, there will be U.S. auto makers in this country. I don’t think there’s anybody in this country that really thinks if they went through some re-organization that we’re not going to end up with U.S. auto makers at the end of that. We are.”
But it will be an industry in which fewer workers are represented by the United Auto Workers. And that doesn’t cause Republicans like Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., any regret.
“I think the United Auto Workers and some of their wage demands and work habit demands have hurt the industry,” Sessions said.
One advantage the Honda and Hyundai plants in Alabama have over the General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford plants in Michigan is lower labor costs. That's because, in part, auto workers in Michigan are represented by the UAW and workers in Alabama aren’t.
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Unions are an artifact of the 19th and 20th century. Card check will not help them a bit.
Too many companies have gone bankrupt whilst unionized. Way too many.
Not a single union gives a flying rats behind about their constituents. All the union cares about is their dues collection and political leverage.
If card check passes, then you just watch the exodus of every manufacturing business go to Mexico and elsewhere. Card check would decimate American industry.
Unions are an artifact of the 19th and 20th century. Card check will not help them a bit.
Too many companies have gone bankrupt whilst unionized. Way too many.”
If I am running a small company, and the Union comes in and says I have to unionize my employees, the doors will be closed by the end of the day.
The rats have a plan to deal with this contigency. The rats are not stupid. They are control-driven ideologues who enjoy responding to negative side effects. The rats will try to use the threat of tariffs to keep the jobs here. The net result will be much higher auto costs for the consumer.
Ok, then watch them enact protectionist tariffs that plunge us into another Great Depression.
They may want to do that, however even they can’t be that stupid. There have to be some adults left in the Democrat party.
Use the UAWs pension.
They could bail out the three several times over.
Crush the UAW and each member then see a resurgence in US auto making.
The UAW has made it this long off the backs of conservatives who believed in “BUY AMERICAN.”
The UAW took conservatives’ hard-earned money, paid to buy products basically to support America, and used it to help elect a Marxist.
No thanks.
Time to buy American-made Toyotas and Hondas and let the Big 3 and the UAW die gracefully. Or whatever.
the doors will be closed by the end of the day.
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Wanna bet that doing that will be considered an unfair labor practice in any legislation that congress passes?
If they pass this then the Democrats are more stupid than I thought. They will kill another industry through extortion and theft. They destroy everything they touch, from schools, to industry to fetuses. Is there anything that we can keep safe from their political gluttony?
Do away with these unions, they are of the past and would die naturally unless politically preserved through this self-promoting extortion process they have with the Democrats. The Democrats enlarge the unions’ extortive powers and the unions provide campaign money and workers.
It’s done. Time to retrain and get better jobs.
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