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Even the reality of bankruptcy is not enough to make the UAW realize that it's killing its own industry and destroying jobs.
1 posted on 12/11/2005 11:18:41 AM PST by Brilliant
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Strike a compnay in bankruptcy.

Brilliant!

2 posted on 12/11/2005 11:20:45 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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The reality is, they can take the wage cuts or kiss the jobs away forever.


3 posted on 12/11/2005 11:22:05 AM PST by operation clinton cleanup (Johnson & Johnson = Bengals win!)
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Yeah, it's always smarter to lose your job and the company that provided it, rather than take a cut in pay and allow the company to regain its financial footing.

Government economics 101.


4 posted on 12/11/2005 11:22:23 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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These clods and lazy management have priced themselves out of the market.


5 posted on 12/11/2005 11:23:07 AM PST by stboz
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Ok. So I'm assuming the price of a bankrupt company with "...185,000 workers worldwide..." can easily be bought by these employees who would then be free to raise wages as they see fit.


6 posted on 12/11/2005 11:23:11 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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The game's over,guys and gals.go along with the cuts,or watch *all* the jobs wind up in China and watch *all* your retirees lose their health coverage and half of their pension checks.
7 posted on 12/11/2005 11:24:26 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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Management gets the union it deserves.


10 posted on 12/11/2005 11:25:55 AM PST by muawiyah (u)
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$27/hr??? For assembly line labor???

Dream, on, crybabies, the party is over.


12 posted on 12/11/2005 11:27:25 AM PST by msf92497 (Was Republican...Now just a Conservative.)
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The unions are not killing the industry, rather slowly milking it until the end. They know very well that China, et al, are their demise.


29 posted on 12/11/2005 11:46:49 AM PST by beauzo (Half empty, or half full of it?)
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the plants are already on lists to close these guys are whistling past the cemetery.
32 posted on 12/11/2005 11:53:23 AM PST by q_an_a
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$27.00/hr for screwing screws and they wonder why China is the new Super-Power of manufacturing.
39 posted on 12/11/2005 12:16:10 PM PST by TexasCajun
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"proposed cuts -- from $27 an hour to between $10 and $12.50 -- are unfair,"

$10 an hour sounds a lot more reasonable for the type of unskilled labor they do than $27 an hour. They can have a job that pays $10/hour or no job at all.


40 posted on 12/11/2005 12:25:17 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope
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There is one certainty...... parts made by Delphi after the bankruptcy won't be worth the cardboard boxes they come in.

Indiana union workers are a vindictive lot and will crap in the stew.

I had the misfortune of having one of the last jobs out of a majot metal fabricating plant in Indianapolis. They made the last run on top of the building a half inch too short. By the time I got there to inspect before shipping the workers were gone and the supervisors had to make it all over again. It took weeks to get new material, have it fabricated and finished.

The plant floor looked like a war zone. The fabrication involved studwelding fasteners to the panels and the workers would hurl the studs across the shop. The wire glass enclosure to the supervisors office was pocked with the stud marks.

The great American union workingmen can become vindictive terrorists. the 60 day laoff rule was written to provide a revenge period.


57 posted on 12/11/2005 1:07:53 PM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Franks in '08)
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Better to be unemployed at $27/hr than to work for $14/hr.


59 posted on 12/11/2005 1:09:32 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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Talk about a bunch of brain dead folks!
These people are going to end up singing Solidarity Forever in an unemployment line.


79 posted on 12/11/2005 3:37:14 PM PST by quadrant
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Let them all go start businesses of their own so they get a dose of reality.


82 posted on 12/11/2005 3:40:54 PM PST by Amish with an attitude (An armed society is a polite society)
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Even the reality of bankruptcy is not enough to make the UAW realize that it's killing its own industry and destroying jobs.

Stupid is as stupid does.

84 posted on 12/11/2005 3:44:25 PM PST by aculeus
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Unions have outlived their day. We have enough laws in place now to protect workers.


92 posted on 12/11/2005 5:42:21 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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Even the reality of bankruptcy is not enough to make the UAW realize that it's killing its own industry and destroying jobs.""

They are the most self-delusional group in the USA, IMO.


106 posted on 12/11/2005 6:28:53 PM PST by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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You willing to take LESS money as earned income?


122 posted on 12/11/2005 8:22:53 PM PST by cynicom
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