Posted on 06/12/2006 12:47:48 PM PDT by SmithL
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger on Monday challenged his union to battle against corporations that declare bankruptcy and export jobs and he singled out the Bush administration as a major political foe.
In his speech to hundreds of delegates at the UAW's 34th convention at the MGM Grand Hotel, Gettelfinger also warned of difficult times ahead as the union fights to preserve a middle-class lifestyle won over the past 70 years.
Gettelfinger said some people in management and some industry analysts believe the UAW is not up to the fight.
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"he singled out the Bush administration as a major political foe"
The President is running for a third term?
The sickness on the left just deepens and deepens. Thanks for reminding me why I won't buy a new American car.
"he singled out the Bush administration as a major political foe"
The UAW is so foolhardy and suicidal that they've spent the last 20 years fighting against drilling at ANWR.
"The sickness on the left just deepens and deepens."
These are the violent thrashings of a dying animal.
I know this is a union and that there leadership are basically communists but what exactly is it that the Bush administration has supposedly done to the auto workers? I swear they're like the islamopignazis they can't solve their own economic problems so right away it's the West that is to blame. UAW and the US car industry are in shambles so ergo it must be Bush's fault. I wonder if the rank and file is still falling for this old game?
These people don't give a hoot about their company(s). The folks who SIGN their checks. They care only about their union and how much ill-gotten dough they can shovel into their pockets for making mediocre automobiles.
These guys think far too much of themselves and are allied with politicians in the DNC who are the absolute anti-thesis of everything this nation was founded upon.
LOL, really? That's just too funny. (or it would be funny if it weren't so pathetically idiotic.)
Would they use the word "rails" if he supported Bush?
Unless he has some suggestions as to how to force businesses to stay here...he should really examine why so many of them left.
All on the belief that they were entitled to have "somebody" show up in their region to offer jobs in the first place.
Union dues at work (play?).
The funny part is that compared to yesterday's report, wherein he sounded rational (warned his members that they're going to have to take further cuts if they want to keep their jobs whether they like it or not), this just proves that the UAW is totally deranged with a moment of clarity every 30 years.
LOL! The UAW chief warned of difficult times ahead while chowing down and relaxing with the rest of his labor cronies at the MGM Grand in LV.
It can't get any better than this!
If this guy thinks the Democrats would do anything differently he's an idiot. The Democrats are still operating from the Clinton playbook.
Toyota is doing quite well in the States, I understand.
Also, we (in Indiana) have a shot at a new Honda plant.
These guys are suffering from a 30 (or 40) year old world view.
But, then again, so do most Democrats.
As an aside, the Bush administration pushed through ( after a delay) financial disclosure rules showing how Union dues are spent.
I don't think the rank and file will like what is revealed.
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