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 ...
No, they get $200 a week from the UAW strike fund. ...
And the union bigwigs, who no doubt fired up the rank and file to strike, will not be out of work nor out of a paycheck.
I'll bet they wouldn't be so quick to call a strike if the bigs had to suffer along with the rank and file.
(former union member here)
Yep, the UAW put star-nails on our road, driveways, and bus stop, because we had some in the neighborhood crossing the picket-line.
It would be interesting if GM just shut down the Michigan factories entirely, and moved all production to a right to work state
Part of the ripple effect would have been my plant if it hadn't been closed down last Dec. We were a stamping plant and under the JIT delivery system, we would have had to shut down all of our GM press line and assembly areas by the end of this week and laid off a number of employees....
I agree but such legislation is not likely especially in the short run. The dims protect their own just as the commies protect their own.
In the short run, replacement workers are the solution. GM has an excellent opportunity to change its position with the UAW. I hope that the lessons of other companies using replacement workers are not lost.
I may even consider buying a GM product if GM stands firm with the union thugs.
10 years ago we were an 85% GM shop.....now we are about 80% DaimlerChrysler (Mercedes and smart) and 20% Nissan, and zero GM (well, we did a project for GM Dubai last year)
The suppliers will get hosed now, as word will go to the payables people to slow payments corporatewide.
There are a million Mexicans who would love nothing better than to live/work in Detroit for $20/hour total. By striking, the UAW is cutting it’s own throat.
Get enough to cross with you and bear the spitting with pride. Its like freeing yourself from enslavement. I’m sure your spouse could find work outside auto manufacturing to tide you over.
It seems they are just shooting themselves in the foot with a strike!!
Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.
New U.A.W. slogan: Not Working Together
The UAW has 73,000 members who work for GM at 82 U.S. facilities, including assembly and parts plants and warehouses.
It remained to be seen what effect the strike would have on the automaker and consumers. The company has sufficient stocks of just about every product to withstand a short strike, according to Tom Libby, senior director of industry analysis for J.D. Power and Associates.
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Well done UAW @$$hats
Watch the number of jobs and plants decline
'cause they're American citizens, that's why!
I think you will see GM management spend a week saying nothing....and then announce closure of a plant (it’ll be a quick 90 days or less closure as well). The union will ask to go back to the table and the management will stall for seven additional days...to set the stage. The union will try to reverse the closure and find that this is guaranteed now...and that there is a shift of work to Argentina or China or Brazil underway. Around the third week...the union will give in totally and the workers will be in total shock over medical costs left to them to manage.
And we just bought our Camry almost two weeks to the day ago... Not going back to the Big 3 for quite some time.. until they can get their act together concerning the UAW and quality vehicles...
Agree 100%, excellent post.
Grampa, wish you could've met me and some of my co-workers at VAFB, who were required to join the IAM-AW (huge aerospace contractor - we were an agency shop). Electrical and mechanical missile technicians and inspectors - a lot of them retired Air Force, had no use for the Union, and were as conservative as it gets. Even our local leadership tended conservative, but halfheartedly tried to mouth the union mantra.
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