[hillarynot]

If the Automakers would have followed the Caterpillar model of the early 1990’s in dealing with Union extortion, both they and the economy of Michigan would be much better off today.

[mmichaels1970]

cmon...are you going to make me go out and research the “Caterpillar model of the early 1990’s” or will you go easy on me and give me the general answer?

[mmichaels1970]

ok...I get it.

NY Times

Over the weekend, about 80 percent of the 8,700 strikers voted to reject Caterpillar's last offer. But their union, the United Automobile Workers, still a rich and muscular giant within the depleted American labor movement, ordered them back. The union had spent $30 million, all for naught, defending them. Caterpillar never flinched. Today, the company said it would take the workers back in its own good time. A Caterpillar vice president, Wayne Zimmerman, said in a statement that management had requested a meeting with union leaders "to determine whether their offer to return to work is being made in good faith." In view of changes in operations during the strike, Mr. Zimmerman said, "an immediate return to prestrike staffing of nearly a year and a half ago is simply not practical."