ORGANIZING IN ALABAMA: UAW official has a secret plan to convert nonunion Mercedes plant

Detroit Free Press ^ | 8-28-03 | Jamie Butters

[Dan from Michigan]

VANCE, Ala. -- Two billboards along Interstate 20-59 stand on the steep hillside across from the exit to Mercedes Drive. The first touts the 10-year relationship between the luxury German brand and this Deep South state. The second espouses the more than six decades that the UAW has protected its members' safety, civil rights and standard of living.

[Dan from Michigan]

Good luck to Bama on keeping the goon squad dems from Detroit away. Ever been to Highland Park, Willow Run, Detroit, Flint, or Pontiac?

[Moose4]

Gotta love the swipes that the writer took at Alabama, eh? "Naw, don't worry, the UAW will send some folks down from Detroit and have those slack-jawed yokels steppin' and fetchin' in no time!"

Given the choice between living in Detroit and living in Alabama, I sure know which one I'd pick. And it ain't Detroit.

}:-)4

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This attitude is typical of Northerners. Friends of mine in Minneapolis ask if we've taken up chewing tobacco after we moved south...

[Dan from Michigan]

The Free Press is Detroit's liberal paper.(The Det News is somewhat 'conservative')

I'd like to find that thread about UAW pushing for abortion coverage.

It's causing a stir up here(Michigan is heavily Catholic - and is majority pro-life) and I'm sure it will cause the same stir if not more down in Bama.

[Dan from Michigan]

Abortion coverage new goal for UAW [United Auto Workers]