PRO-BUSH RESERVISTS KICKED OUT OF UAW PARKING LOT

Michelle Malkin.com ^ | March 10, 2005 06:23 PM | By Michelle Malkin

[Lijahsbubbe]

For years the UAW Solidarity House in Detroit has let Marine reservists park in its lot while the reservists undergo weekend training.

Now, however, WXYZ.com reports that UAW has begun placing some restrictions on reservists' parking privileges:

Marines at nearby Marine Corps Reserve Center say on Tuesday morning, the director of security at the UAW told them that while they support the troops, Marines driving foreign vehicles or sporting a President George Bush bumper sticker were no longer welcome to park there. U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge told Action News, "We received a phone call from the UAW, who support us by letting us park down at their facility. They called and said they weren’t going to allow or they would turn away some vehicles."

A spokesman for the UAW released a statement to Action News which reads:

"While reservists certainly have the right to drive non-union made vehicles and display bumper stickers touting the most anti-worker, anti-union president since the 1920s, that doesn’t mean they have the right to park in a lot owned by members of the UAW."

Real classy.

[OKIEDOC]

Usually I have something witty to say about most any absurd situation but this takes the cake.

Evidently some people buy the socialist crap these useless union bosses heap on their followers, hook, line and stinker.

Unions have out lived their uselessness.

[26lemoncharlie]

Will any American UAW workers tell the Union to hit the Bricks and leave?? That's the best thing that could happen in this situation, it's up to the voting body of the UAW. Disband and reorganize with new Pro American Leadership, just leave the Union!

[Lancey Howard]

Is the UAW a political party?

It's a wing of a political party.

[Utopia]

That does it...I'm buying a foreign car.

Try Saab. I did and never looked back.

[cmsgop]

I tried VW and never looked back, I do want a Volvo for some reson though..

[Lancey Howard]

Even a foreign car may be made by another foreign company.
I have a '97 Acura SUV but it's just a Trooper with Acura emblems on it.

[Redbob]

Foreign vehicles have NEVER been allowed in the UAW parking lot - that much I can understand.

But as for the Bush bumper stickers:
well, it's their parking lot, and if I was running a GOP headquarters, I don't think I'd want Kerry/Whatshisface bumperstickers on cars parked there.

We know darned well the UAW is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dimbulbs, so why should we be surprised at this?

[Redbob]

"Go South and see those foreign automobile assembly plants in full swing mode. Oh yes, forgot to mention that these plants are non union."

Hope you weren't thinking of the GM plants in Springhill, Tennessee, or Bowling Green, Kentucky, or Atlanta, Ga, or Dallas, Texas.

Last I looked, all those places are "South," and all surely are unionized.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Have just read a long article in a recent Business Week on General Motors.
Gm as well as Ford and Chrysler have major problems trying to pay for the Health Care benefits of current and retirees.
The UAW which has pushed and gotten these nice fat contracts has finally pushed the auto makers to the braking point as they have the Steel makers, airlines, etc.
It is estimated that it costs $2000 a car for GM to pay for all of these costs. So for the most part it is GM's Finance arm that has been keeping them afloat profit wise.
I am sure Ford and Chrysler are in the same boat.
It was also stated that bankruptcy was not out of line as was the real possibility that GM's bond status could be downgraded to junk.
All in all not a pretty picture and all thanks to the UAW.

[Fred Hayek]

Just because a plant is non-union does not necessarily mean that the workers do not get a better package. In the steel industry, the best paid steel workers I found were at Nucor Steel - non-union. Best production bonuses, educational benefits, etc.

[Just A Nobody]

Is the UAW a political party?
It's a wing of a political party.

What about the:
ACLU
Seirra Club
NOW
I know there's more...

[Graymatter]

If not for soldiers, we wouldn't have elections.

[editor-surveyor]

"One thing I find annoying (as someone who does a lot of my own maintenance) is that you have to own two sets of tools, as the vehicles have both metric and SAE fasteners on them."

And you can thank Richard Milhouse Nixon for that insanity. At a time when the automakers of the world were about to go SAE with all of their fasteners, Nixon moved to destroy American manufacturers advantage.

[Sooth2222]

That does it...I'm buying a foreign car.

Try Saab. I did and never looked back.

A Saab 9-2 which is made in Japan, or a Saab 9-7, which is a UAW-Chevy Trailblazer that comes with an Ikea gift certificate?

Today you can buy a Mercedes or Honda from Alabama, a BMW from South Carolina, a Toyota from California, and Ford owns Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover and Aston Martin. What's a foreign car now?

[Lijahsbubbe]

If not for soldiers, we wouldn't have elections

Great point.

[hoot2]

"Would that be a Toyota made by UAW workers in California or a Chrysler made in Mexico?"

Oh, c'mon....get real.

A Toyota, made in North Carolina...go DW...tow that boat!

[Lijahsbubbe]

well, it's their parking lot, and if I was running a GOP headquarters, I don't think I'd want Kerry/Whatshisface bumperstickers on cars parked there.

They're certainly lockstep with the rest of the intolerant liberals. The kind that scream about (private) churches accepting homosexuals and the like.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Gee, I wonder why Ford is now behind Nissan in total sales? The majority of "foreign cars" sold in the U.S. are made by Americans.

[Lancey Howard]

"What about the:
ACLU
Seirra Club
NOW
I know there's more..."

The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times
The Philadelphia Inquirer
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN....