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 say randomly fire every tenth employee.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
The next strike in 2013 will affect all 84 GM workers....
Well if a bunch of Mexicans can easily replace the striking workers, I guess then the strikers are greatly overestimating their value to the firm.
One thing I can assure you of and that's that there are huge celebrations occurring right now at the Headquarters of Toyota,Honda,Nissan,Hyundai,VW,BMW,Audi,etc.
The UAW is dead...it just doesn't have the sense to fall over.Thanks to the filthy Communists who lead the UAW,in about ten years 100% of the cars we buy will be from foreign companies as opposed to 50% today.
Good. My stock just went up. Wonder how many UAW workers own GM stock?
Piss on them. Let American who want to work have a job. GM and the Country will be better off.
Which will be used for certain political parties and will then come up short when the time comes to pay the medical bills.
Why'd they walk away again?
GM doesn’t make military Hummers. They make the H2 and H3 based off of the Tahoe and Trailblazer platforms, respectively, and pay a royalty to AM General to use the name.
BUMP
It’s either pay the piper (Union) or not have a job
Yes, Right to Work states allow folks to opt out of the Union.
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True. I have seen it first hand with my friends who are as conservative as Nixon and are firefighters, medics, and cops and the unions come in and give them the ole “we are voting this way” speech.
The UAW is dead...it just doesn't have the sense to fall over.Thanks to the filthy Communists who lead the UAW,in about ten years 100% of the cars we buy will be from foreign companies as opposed to 50% today.
I don't know what they were or weren't thinking. The UAW Leadership is beyond stupid. There is a HUGE difference between an auto worker and an UAW leader auto worker. The former will get $200 pay a week and a chance to lose their jobs, the latter will get substantially more, trips to Black Lake and have their job guaranteed regardless.
Maybe the UAW is calling GM's bluff.
Whatever you say...
GM needs to fight this strike, declare bankruptcy and start over from scratch. that’s the only way the company can be saved.
Local union story I love to cite.
Back in the early ‘90s, the local Firestone plant was taken over by Bridgestone. Serious layoffs, cutbacks and retrenchment took place. The pay scale for survivors was $16.50/hr.
United Rubber Workers went on strike. They wanted $18/hr. The company said to avoid additional layoffs or even closure, they needed to cut to $13/hr. The strike dragged on and the plant found “replacements.” Months later, the strike fund ran out. Local rag paper did a sob story piece on one of the strikers who was now having trouble making ends meet. Claimed he couldn’t find a job that paid more than $6.00/hr.
Hmmm....sounds like that’s what his skill set was worth on the open market. But wait, there WAS a potential employer (Bridgestone) willing to pay him more than DOUBLE what he was worth, and his UNION said he couldn’t take that job.
Talk about no sense at all...
You got it, fire all the strikers, and bring on new help, there’s plenty around to do the work UAW members won’t do.
GM should cancel the UAW contract. Just cancel it.
Then it should send recruiters to all the US cities with Toyota, Honda and Nissan plants.
It should offer 5% more in salary than paid to those plants’ non-union workers; and it should offer the same year-end bonus plans and the same level of benefit contributions as the Asian big-three now offer their U.S. workers.
That 5% wage-increase, with everything else equal will still be $billions cheaper than the UAW contract and should get enough workers from some of the currently employed non-UAW workers and from the unemployed UAW workers who want work instead of welfare. Yes welfare, because the current UAW contract has GM paying salaries to its laid-off UAW workers, who have already passed the point of eligibility for unemployment benefits. That could coax many of those previously laid-off workers who have not yet taken other employment, and who would immediately loose any income they have, to willingly take the non-union GM jobs, ahead of currently employed UAW workers, who would still get some period of union strike-pay and then unemployment.
I think it’s time the US big three automakers started operating in the domestic US market on a equal pay-scale and benefits level with the Asian big-three, who seem to have no problem getting enough workers and keeping them.
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