Wish in one hand and **** in the other...
yep. same as it ever was, until the next time some chump like our President bails them out.
This is the kind of crap that has ruined our country.
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The UAW is eager to boost its ranks with more new hires. Its membership has fallen to 376,612, about a quarter of the 1.5 million it had at its peak in 1979.
The number of UAW auto workers has gone down much more than that. The 376,612 includes a lot of medical, state, and local employees who have unionized.
I predict: GM WILL go bankrupt again. they have become a political organization tied to the Gov’t as much as they are a private industrial company. And like all such entities, they will need to come back to the Gov’t again for help.
That means they have until election day 2012.
Don’t hold GM stock any longer than that!!
Greedy hogs; the company is finally getting out from under water, but go figure, the workers (haha) want the profits instead of letting the company make their own money and then get on a solid profit structure, they insist on taking it as soon as it comes in. Go freaking figure and people wonder why companies are moving overseas.
Yeah right. Why would "management" be the enemy when the unions and Obummer are basically management? How do these dopes have the balls to be looking for more goodies when new car sales are in the toilet? These Gov't companies are still in a death spiral.
I had just heard a news report on this before I saw your post.
The way they (UNION) put it .. "It's time for them to get well after all their sacrifice"!
This is the level of superficial journalism which helps get you to the point we were at in 2008-2009 in the Big Three. Recently there has been a lot of reporting on the fact that Chrysler paid back loans which it received in in the post bankruptcy bailout. And generally speaking, that it true of the debtor-in-possession financing that the Treasury gave them. What is not much talked about is the $17.8B which was disbursed by the Bush Administration in December 2008 to stave off the imminent collapse of GM and Chrysler. That money went bye-bye when the companies filed their respective bankruptcy cases.
I don't see any significant change for the big three and the UAW. What is interesting (and stupefying) is why VW would be so receptive to the UAW at their new Chattanooga plant. They will regret that.
When you have such an inferior intellect as to join a union it follows that you have learned nothing during this economic downturn and are bent on repeating past mistakes.
There’s probably 2000 people for every UAW job willing to work for their deal or less. (That’s probably conservative).
Snip: “They also resent the size of executive pay packages, particularly at Ford, where workers fume that Ford CEO Alan Mulally got $26.5 million for 2010.
Some assembly-line workers are already mad about giving up guaranteed raises. They could resist profit-sharing.
“Most workers say `No, that’s not good enough,’” says Gary Walkowicz, a Ford worker who ran unsuccessfully against King last year. “It’s like pie in the sky as opposed to real increases in wages to help us keep up with increasing prices.”
end snip.
Idiots abound. First of all, Ford would not be the strongest of the big 3 if they were stull under William Clay Ford, Jr. Second, as an assy line worker how much value do you actually add? With mfg processes in place, anyone could be trained in a very short period of time to follow the instructions and pictures to do your very limited operation. Plus you get to leave at night, go home get drunk and operate as effectively with a hangover the next morning.
Now, Mr. Mullaly never gets to leave, is often only able to sleep on flights, is moving from continent to continent, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of people’s livelihood across the globe, is rarely ever able to see his family, etc.
As far as I’m concerned, Alan Mullaly is very under compensated for the pressure he is under and the work he does. He adds a lot more value than our entire federal government to the US.
You “blue collar” fools are simply fools. Without him you’d be jobless.
Now that the Union is an owner. They owe us.