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UAW Leader Says No More Concession
AP ^ | 11-15-08 | Mark Williams

Posted on 11/15/2008 11:02:50 AM PST by engrpat

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Even as Detroit's Big Three teeter on collapse, United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger says workers will not make any more concessions and that getting the automakers back on their feet means figuring out a way to turn around the slumping economy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aflcio; afscme; automakers; bailout; bho2008; cardcheck; chicagomob; chrysler; congress; democrats; detroit; economy; environmentalists; ford; gm; hoffa; honda; michigan; nissan; obama; pelosi; reid; seiu; taxes; teamsters; toyota; uaw; unions
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To: engrpat

“....that getting the automakers back on their feet means figuring out a way to turn around the slumping economy.”

How about “Drill, Drill, Drill”? More oil, cheaper gas, and GM makes a profit again.


21 posted on 11/15/2008 11:13:06 AM PST by DugwayDuke (What's more important? Your principles or supporting the troops? Vote McCain!)
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To: Roklok

Bankruptcy for GM and Ford could be the best thing that could happen to America right now.

They can unload the immense dead weight they are carrying, get back into the business of building and designing cars IN AMERICA, and serve as an object lesson to those that supported Democrats in the face of thier own personal self-interest.


22 posted on 11/15/2008 11:13:35 AM PST by tcrlaf (You Voted DEMOCRAT-You'l,l Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: engrpat

The UAW is betting that they own Obama.


23 posted on 11/15/2008 11:13:56 AM PST by razorback-bert (Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
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To: Roklok

“These idiots are going to kill the golden goose.”

Not only did they kill the goose, they are now demanding that Golden Egg production remain the same!!


24 posted on 11/15/2008 11:15:21 AM PST by tcrlaf (You Voted DEMOCRAT-You'l,l Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Mikey_1962

25 posted on 11/15/2008 11:15:57 AM PST by DryFly
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To: razorback-bert

The UAW KNOWS that they own Obama


26 posted on 11/15/2008 11:17:28 AM PST by italianquaker (When BO won the election the stock market was at 9600 and a tank of gas cost 2 bucks.)
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To: engrpat

Sometimes I think we should just fence off Michigan and Ohio (give the U.P. to Wisconsin), dust off the 48-star flag, and speak of this no more.


27 posted on 11/15/2008 11:18:19 AM PST by magellan (u)
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To: engrpat

Break the back of the UAW or let them all lose their jobs.


28 posted on 11/15/2008 11:18:32 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Comparative Advantage
Time to get their lazy overpaid arses out and get retrained. Take a buy out from the unions and find a new career, and if it requires moving, get in line, they will not be the first to have to move for work.

Instead of the unions spending $400,000,000 to get a bunch of blood sucking DIMS elected, the money should have gone back to the union members. What a bunch of stupid crooks.

UAW chief urges $25 bln in U.S. auto health care support (Union bailout-payback for $400,000,000)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127523/posts

Who's your DADDY Obama??

Youtube The One on Card Check

Why Doesn't Toyota USA Need A Bailout?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2130909/posts
29 posted on 11/15/2008 11:18:39 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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To: engrpat

Methinks Gettelfinger just gave us the bird.


30 posted on 11/15/2008 11:18:46 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Comparative Advantage

Full Pay to the Last Day was the slogan at Eastern Airlines. Worked out well for them too.


32 posted on 11/15/2008 11:20:47 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: engrpat

Easier for me to go out purchase a 30 year old car or truck etc , strip it, do the body work, new wiring harness,new glass , new crate engine and transmission , new paint and interior etc for under 15K that serves my needs and doesn’t cost me 50k.....

I don’t buy union, today or tomorrow until they abandon the socialist democratic sedition that is killing this nation.


33 posted on 11/15/2008 11:20:51 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: tcrlaf

I agree...bankruptcy for GM and Ford and renegotiating contracts is prerequisite for returning to a healthy and profitable capitalist society.


34 posted on 11/15/2008 11:22:20 AM PST by ChowChowFace
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To: Roklok
Just how stupid can these people be

Unions are very liberal democrats, there is no limit to their ignorance.

35 posted on 11/15/2008 11:22:40 AM PST by softwarecreator (Wow, free food, free gas and no more mortgage payments after January 2009, thanks Obama!!)
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To: engrpat

Obama is the Art Fern of American presidents. (Got no money? We don’t care!)


36 posted on 11/15/2008 11:23:22 AM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: tcrlaf
BTW. Volkswagen, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai and many other foreign car manufacturers DESIGN all of their cars in America.

Since when did American manufacturers find someplace in a foreign country where they could design cars?

37 posted on 11/15/2008 11:25:08 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: GM; Ford; Financial Institutions; Other_Bailees

Scramble for the money. Do what it takes to take. Divvy it up amongst the execs, hold a fire sale, then close up shop.

38 posted on 11/15/2008 11:25:19 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: engrpat
Well there you have it. The UAW would rather have a contract and no jobs then take a cut and have jobs. Something is really wrong with this thinking, add the fact that news is getting out about their pay and benefits they could lose the PR war really fast.

In other words the union dogma hasn't changed on 80 years.

So, let me elaborate on your statement engrpat, There you have it, the unions have gone to bed with politicians and now neither can afford the offspring created and both parents are pi$$ed with their self generated desperation.

39 posted on 11/15/2008 11:25:30 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: engrpat

Gotta keet that “Rubber Room” going.


40 posted on 11/15/2008 11:25:37 AM PST by Mike Darancette (I have nothing to say - Oliver Hardy)
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