Posted on 09/24/2007 8:33:39 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Edited on 09/24/2007 8:57:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DETROIT -- United Auto Workers union members walked out of General Motors Corp. factories in the U.S. Monday morning after bargaining over a new national labor agreement failed to produce a deal by an 11 a.m. deadline. It's the first time in more than 20 years that the UAW has staged a mass walkout in connection with company wide contract talks. But in a sign of the complex forces at work in the Detroit auto industry, GM shares were trading higher Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, as investors cheered signs that GM management might be willing to resist ...
I hate getting my hopes up in stories like these - it seems like the unions always win (well, except for air traffic controllers).
The workers should have decertified the Union before the contract ended;
Kicking Out Your Union
Sample Decertification Forms
.pdf format .doc format
Hundreds of polls are held each year to end representation by poor union leadership
In 2004, workers successfully decertified poor representation in 65 percent of decertification elections, according to cases closed by the NLRB
While union officials try to avoid democratic secret ballots to organize workers (increasingly turning to “card check” campaigns to gain representation), they demand secret-ballot elections for ending representation
Employees who no longer want a union to represent them — whether it’s because the union is undemocratic, corrupt, violent, or just plain inept — are entitled to seek an election to determine if a majority of their coworkers wants to drop the union.
http://www.unionfacts.com/articles/memberDecertification.cfm
Then cross the line.
Can't...I don't work there. The spouse does. If there were a way to sneak in there without getting killed or spit on, I would. You do know the only way to get that $200 a week is to do strike duty?
Well I guess that means the Union leaders will do just fine as their paychecks are not affected. Instead, just imagine the average union worker trying to make ends meet on $800/month for two years.
:)
There are plenty of willing replacement workers in Michigan and surrounding states. Illegals are not needed.
I believe that Caterpillar hired lots of replacement workers in a recent strike. If Cat can hire replacement workers, then so can GM. Three cheers for a long strike with plenty of willing replacement workers!
average union worker trying to make ends meet on $800/month for two years.
House and car payment should deplete that.
We don't need strikes we need tort reform. 'Course everyone knows just how wonderful health care would be under President Hillary. /sarc
Bump for that!
Jobs bank programs — 12,000 paid not to work
Big 3 and suppliers pay billions to keep downsized UAW members on payroll in decades-long deal.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/17/A01-351179.htm
Idiots. Expect more garbage out of GM. Such a shame, as it looked like they were headed into the proper direction. The Union is feeding on itself.
Idiots.
Maybe but it will take literally forever to make up the lost wages and the back rent and all the other bills left unpaid must ultimately be paid.
Maybe but it will take literally forever to make up the lost wages and the back rent and all the other bills left unpaid must ultimately be paid.
Aside from a specific Congressional provision exempting them, all they are doing is practicing monopolistic principles to extort money from related employers who do not have a free market for labor capital.
Of course, while this has seemed like brilliance on the part of the socialist bosses who created the exemption back in the 30s (the same time that 2nd amendment lost its Constitutional value, btw). But just like the old soviet union, there was only so long that the rest of the economic universe was willing to subsidize this parasite and for the last 25 years this industry has been dying on the vine.
But be absolutely sure that GWB gets blamed for this somehow. Nobody will blame the enviro wackos for their hysteria about global warming which has hurt SUV sales which has been possibly the largest factor preventing this implosion from happening 10-15 years prior to now.
What would be needed is "right to work" plus enforcement of the law against union thugs when they commit acts of violence or vandalism against the companies and replacement workers
Indeed. It does depend on how mentally dug-in the rank and file are.
“Nobody will blame the enviro wackos for their hysteria about global warming which has hurt SUV sales”
i think gas prices have hurt suv sales more than anything. i do agree with everything else you said.
Suicide for the UAW. Idiots, but I repeat myself.
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