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$27-Million UAW-Owned Country Club Includes Golf Course, Condos, Swimming Pools
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Posted on 12/22/2008 3:20:07 AM PST by Sub-Driver

$27-Million UAW-Owned Country Club Includes Golf Course, Condos, Swimming Pools Monday, December 22, 2008 By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – The United Autoworkers Union, which had a total net worth of $1.2 billion in 2007, owns a $27 million resort and conference center that features a $6 million upscale golf course, according to financial statements on file with the U.S. Department of Labor.

The retreat, called the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center, is located on Black Lake in Onaway, Mich. The union-owned retreat includes the Black Lake Golf Club, valued at $6 million according to the financial statement.

The resort features conference centers, classrooms, resort amenities and the golf club, which is open to union members, retirees and their guests, as well as the public, on a space-available basis.

Accommodations at the resort cost $92 a night for a single room and $106 a night for a double. Full-service condos are available costing $180 for a two-bedroom and $275 for a three-bedroom unit.

UAW members receive a slight discount on accommodations, paying $74 a night for a single, $87 a night for a double. Members can rent a two-bedroom condo for $150/night and a three-bedroom condo for $225/night.

The Education Center includes lakeside rooms, hotel-style rooms, as well as a fully-equipped campground, boat ramp and dock. It also has an Olympic-sized swimming pool, two full-length basketball courts, and a sauna.

The 1,000 acre golf club is a first-class, 1,000 acre, environmentally conscious course designed by Rees Jones, son of famed golf course designer Robert Trent Jones, the same designer behind PGA-level courses Pinehurst, Torrey Pines, and LPGA International.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: uaw; unions
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Uh huh...........
1 posted on 12/22/2008 3:20:07 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Union dues at work.

(Are unions registered as “Not for Profits” in the US?)


2 posted on 12/22/2008 3:33:13 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Sub-Driver
This will NEVER get the press it deserves. Congress will have no hearings or demand they drive (in Chevy Cobalts) to D.C. for hearings.
3 posted on 12/22/2008 3:40:44 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Onaway Michigan is not on-the-way to anywhere. It is about an hour off the road that leads up to Mackinac and three hours away from the nearest UAW plant in Saginaw.

It is around the first knuckle of the index finger of the mitten, in the middle of nowhere. Somebody made a pretty penny on this real estate. I wonder who?


4 posted on 12/22/2008 3:43:48 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: Sub-Driver

“UAW members receive a slight discount on accommodations...”

Guess who doesn’t pay...ever?


5 posted on 12/22/2008 3:53:16 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Family Education Center

huh?????????

6 posted on 12/22/2008 3:58:34 AM PST by OBXWanderer
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To: Sub-Driver

NO BAIL OUT $$$$$$$$$ until it is SOLD!


7 posted on 12/22/2008 4:02:06 AM PST by blueyon (Every one will have their 15 mins under the bus)
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To: Sub-Driver
Black Lake Golf Club
8 posted on 12/22/2008 4:03:03 AM PST by OBXWanderer
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FOR SALE CHEAP: $27-Million UAW-Owned Country Club Includes Golf Course, Condos, Swimming Pools
9 posted on 12/22/2008 4:03:57 AM PST by IbJensen (MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Next year: famine and communism!)
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To: count-your-change

To understand the UAW hey need o know who founded it, and why they still celebrate him. I noticed in the article that the Walter and Mary Reuther Family education center is the name of their retreat. To understand what that education is about, check out who Walter Reuther was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther


10 posted on 12/22/2008 4:04:18 AM PST by billhilly
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To: Sub-Driver
are all the people that work there UNION MEMBERS???
11 posted on 12/22/2008 4:04:30 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Sub-Driver

unions should be destroyed using the RICO ACT... They are nothing but Capone II!

LLS


12 posted on 12/22/2008 4:07:48 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! so sue me!)
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To: Sub-Driver
I second your Uh huh. There is also a nearby airport for the union jet. 'Course it's a charter, not listed as an "asset."
13 posted on 12/22/2008 4:07:58 AM PST by Ace's Dad (Reagan Contra)
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The 1,000 acre golf club is a first-class, 1,000 acre, environmentally conscious course..."

Gee, no kidding; who'd have thunk.....a thousand-acre golf course that's......well......a thousand acres.

"Department of Redundancy Department.....how may I help assist you today?"

14 posted on 12/22/2008 4:20:47 AM PST by RightOnline
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“are all the people that work there UNION MEMBERS???”

Yes.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 4:21:57 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Sub-Driver

Those Union members that don’t Golf or don’t vote DEM get screwed.


16 posted on 12/22/2008 4:24:02 AM PST by bmwcyle (McCain had no honor when he failed to defend Sarah Palin, Leno was not enough)
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To: RightOnline

Not only is it 1,000 acres... it’s conscious!


17 posted on 12/22/2008 4:31:11 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: billhilly

A Super Duper Socialist of course. This smacks of the old Soviet Union, where the well-heeled had their own dachas on the lake.

They make me sick. Welcome to the Hussein era.


18 posted on 12/22/2008 4:31:38 AM PST by bergmeid (Best entertainment I've had in a while.)
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To: gridlock

Would be interesting to find out who and what and when. Any FReepers in that area who can find this out?


19 posted on 12/22/2008 4:33:04 AM PST by bergmeid (Best entertainment I've had in a while.)
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To: gridlock
Somebody made a pretty penny on this real estate. I wonder who?

Somebody shrewd enough to name it "The Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center". Makes it sound like a south Chicago store-front community center.

20 posted on 12/22/2008 4:41:51 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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