Posted on 12/12/2008 6:22:32 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
DETROIT (AP) -- Festering animosity between the United Auto Workers and Southern senators who torpedoed the auto industry bailout bill erupted into full-fledged name calling Friday as union officials accused the lawmakers of trying to break the union on behalf of foreign automakers.
The vitriol had been near the surface for weeks as senators from states that house the transplant automakers' factories criticized the Detroit Three for management miscues and bloated UAW labor costs that lawmakers said make them uncompetitive.
But the UAW stopped biting its tongue after Republicans sank a House-passed bill Thursday night that would have loaned $14 billion to cash-poor General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC to keep them out of bankruptcy protection. The Bush administration later stepped in and said it was ready to make money available to the automakers, likely from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout program.
Still, autoworkers remain angry with the senators who tried to negotiate wage and benefit concessions from the union, then scuttled the House-passed bill that would have granted the loans and set up a "car czar" to oversee the nearly insolvent companies and get concessions from the union and creditors. Their top targets were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who led negotiations on a compromise; and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who has been a vocal critic of the loans.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama all house auto assembly plants from foreign automakers, and union officials contend the senators want to drive UAW wages down so there would be no reason for workers at the foreign plants to join the union.
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Well, I’m in St. Louis and that’s not truly “southern”, but everyone I know is dead agaisnt this unjust, socialist travesty.
Name calling from a bunch of talentless, coddled union thugs?
If you REALLY want to play, come on down south. Better make sure you bring it. Hear?
That’s right, UAW. Way to win friends and influence people.
I hope this brief skirmish will help the Republican congresscritters find their cojones.
To the UAW -
TFB
I will never buy another car produced by a UAW company.
i recently bought a honda.
no union thugs in the u.s. congress.
The dinosaurs were probably angry as they were sinking into the tar pits too.
But Rush, but Rush...doesn’t the UAW have a “friend” in the White House who is going to kick these Rebel Senators to the sidewalk when he deals out the rest of the $1 trillion to the auto industry?
>>If you REALLY want to play, come on down south. Better make sure you bring it. Hear?<<
Trust me, I’m right here in MI.
This is all jealousy, like a six year old girl who envies another girl for her new shoes, so she bad mouths her. They WISH they were you.
(I wish I was there!)
The UAW never votes for Republicans so let them rant. They know they have milked the cow dry and now they want a bigger cow.
I agree, as much as I like Ford trucks, I will never again send them my money. Just STFU you communist bastards! You are digging your grave deeper!
PS,, Us'en's in the south still have our guns. You northerners gave yours up. Come on down!!!!!!
I’m northwestern, and I say, “No to the bailout!” They can do collective bargaining but not to steal money from the rest of us for their bosses’ spendthrift ways.
it’s funny about these crapheads...they are making 3x the average bluee collar worker yet want more, more, more and continue to produce crap, crap, crap...
ah- the way of the rat-wingers...
As a taxpayer, I don’t owe the kool-aid drinkers ONE THING.
For some reason there is not any compassion here. When jobs have ended, people such as myself, have simply gone and found another job.
FOR THE RECORD none of these problems took place overnight. Amazing how all this starting showing itself in October of 2008...hmmmm...four weeks before the presidential election?
Nope, no, compassion here.
Hey! UAW yankee union scum. Suck on this!
You deserve everything you are getting...and more. And when your overpriced plant shuts down forever, don’t come down here looking for a job. STAY THE **** UP THERE!
Ten Republican Senators voted with the Democrats last night, which means the Democrats could have reached 60 votes if the entire Democratic caucus voted for the bill.
Eight Democrats bailed on the bailout (Reid, it should be noted, voted against it for procedural reasons, in order to bring it up for a vote again).
Four Democrats voted ‘nay’: Baucus, Tester, Lincoln, and Reid.
Four Democrats did not vote: Biden, Kennedy, Kerry, and Wyden.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/12/senate_democrats_had_enough_re_1.asp
uaw killed an american company and they have the nerve to blame taxpayers for not giving way
Are we replaying the civil war? I swear; these people are going to get us in one.
Hmmm...
5.56mm
I go out of my way to buy American. No more UAW-produced vehicles for me.
“(I wish I was there!)”
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I’m sorry to hear that. I mean you are welcome, of course.
I think Michigan is (or once was) a magnificent place. I have friends in Bay City, and have been able to learn a fair amount about the history of the richly endowed Great Lakes State.
A damned shame what it has become.
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