UAW Chief Rails Against Bush

AP ^ | 6/12/6 | TOM KRISHER

[SeanOGuano]

"he singled out the Bush administration as a major political foe"

The President is running for a third term?

[MikeA]

The sickness on the left just deepens and deepens. Thanks for reminding me why I won't buy a new American car.

[Abathar]

Great motivational speaker, it should have been titled "How to slit our own throats and take the b@stards with us!" speech.

[Brilliant]

"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.

[L98Fiero]

"The sickness on the left just deepens and deepens."

These are the violent thrashings of a dying animal.

[marlon]

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?

[RexBeach]

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.

[Jeff Head]

I don't owe this person or his union my middle class status and comforts. I worked hard for them myself, thank you very much, and am grateful to parents who taught me how to work and stand up for myself, and to God in Heaven to whom I owe all I have. I am not about to give in to, or recognize a bunch of quasi-marxists/socialists in any of that effort.

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.

[coconutt2000]

The UAW is so foolhardy and suicidal that they've spent the last 20 years fighting against drilling at ANWR.

LOL, really? That's just too funny. (or it would be funny if it weren't so pathetically idiotic.)

[BaBaStooey]

Would they use the word "rails" if he supported Bush?

[P-40]

Unless he has some suggestions as to how to force businesses to stay here...he should really examine why so many of them left.

[SteveMcKing]

All on the belief that they were entitled to have "somebody" show up in their region to offer jobs in the first place.

[CPOSharky]

...hundreds of delegates at the UAW's 34th convention at the MGM Grand Hotel...

Union dues at work (play?).

[Spktyr]

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.

[VeniVidiVici]

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!

[Tallguy]

If this guy thinks the Democrats would do anything differently he's an idiot. The Democrats are still operating from the Clinton playbook.

[mikeybaby]

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.

[CertainInalienableRights]

As an aside, the Bush administration pushed through ( after a delay) financial disclosure rules showing how Union dues are spent

I didn't see that. You wouldn't have a link, would you? I'd love to send it to my union parents.

[mrsmel]

As an aside, the Bush administration pushed through ( after a delay) financial disclosure rules showing how Union dues are spent.

That's great,even in my state (MS)I know a few union members(Ingalls Shipbuilding) who are fed up with having their dues support politics with which they disagree. Some of the Unions are absolutely Stalinist,from what they've told me.