UAW Workers Walk Off the Job

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 24, 2007 | John D. Stoll and Jeffrey McCracken

[reaganaut1]

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 ...

[Badeye]

‘I bet there are thousands of citizens who dream of the wages and benefits GM is offering. No wonder production of cars in the U.S. has migrated to right-to-work states.’

Exactly.

[madison10]

Just another reason why we own a Lexus and a Honda Ridgeline, shop at Walmart and try to avoid buying products made by Union Rat Thugs.

They aren't all "Union Rat Thugs." Many of them are conservatives, who read this site, who voted for Bush (and are sorry they did), who go to church... It's either pay the piper (Union) or not have a job. Some use the "Solidarity" magazine as a who-not-to-vote-for-guide.

[Grampa Dave]

“The weekend’s negotiations made significant progress over a groundbreaking deal to shift GM’s retiree health-care obligations to an independent fund. GM has pushed hard for the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association, or VEBA, as a replacement for an open-ended guarantee of benefits for UAW retirees.”

Besides retired congress critters, does anyone else have these openend health care policies when they retire?

[Lions Gate]

I hope GM fires all the UAW workers like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.

[jdm]

I bet there are thousands MILLIONS of citizens who dream of the wages and benefits GM is offering.

There - fixed it.

[CodeToad]

The unions have outlived their usefulness. They were originally meant for worker safety and corporate fairness but have turned into greedy monsters delivering low quality.

[Abathar]

One of the big unions made a 53 million dollar contribution to the Dems last week, I wonder if the workers will remember that number when/if they strike and the strike fund runs out in the first or second week.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Oh DAMN!! Now I’ll just have to buy a Japanese car. To bad for me.

[kevinm13]

Fire them all. Break the UAW. It’s usefulness was surpassed about 40 years ago.

[madison10]

I hope GM fires all the UAW workers like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.

Bite your tongue! ;) I like having food on the table and a roof over my head.

[Gay State Conservative]

The UAW thugs in charge don't know that the jig is up for them and their members...active and retired.The only question is will the Big Three survive.

My money's on the UAW leadership deciding that "if we're going down we'll take them with us".

[1Old Pro]

One can only hope that this time when they walk off, they stay off the job.

[businessprofessor]

Outlawing unions may be a violation of free assembly. Unions exist through legislation. If employers were not forced to bargain with unions, unions would not exist in most cases. The simplest remedy is just right to work even if companies are forced to bargain. Right to work provides choice to workers and a path for an employer to ignore a union’s outrageous demands.

[HamiltonJay]

Guess there are jobs American Workers won’t do.... 50K+ a year with full bennies...

UAW workers for GM will pay a very very high price for this childish stunt.

Hopefully GM management will change its culture as well, but still end of the day the assembly workers will be the ones who pay the price for crimping GM.... Brand loyalty isn’t what it once was.

Pleanty of dependable reliable little foreign jobs waiting for buyers.

[Son House]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297772,00.html

If workers go on strike, they will be paid $200 a week plus medical benefits from the UAW’s strike fund.

http://www.unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=149

Financial Disbursements

Representational Activities ( 37.9%) $ 119,744,856 more detailed information
Political Activities & Lobbying ( 3.0%) $ 9,621,882 more detailed information
Contributions, Gifts & Grants ( 0.3%) $ 818,393 more detailed information
General Overhead ( 4.6%) $ 14,500,414 more detailed information
Union Administration ( 12.6%) $ 39,743,652 more detailed information
Strike Benefits ( 5.6%) $ 17,645,792
Total Compensation ( 18.9%) $ 59,692,813
Per Capita Tax ( 1.6%) $ 4,943,506

[Grampa Dave]

I keep hearing that. Yet every union member I have met in my many years is a card carrying rat.

The unions support Rat candidates and send their thugs on the streets quell any support of those not supported by the unions.

[JRP0322]

let’s hope GM holds out.

[Broker]

GM UAWorkers loyalty is to union. Buying GM products for patriotic reasons is pointless.

[Eagles Talon IV]

$200 bucks is horse pucky. Besides it’s taxable income.

[rottndog]

UAW Workers Walk Off the Job

Don't let the door hit ya in your lazy fat a$$es.

And Don't whine about being unemployed.