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16668 messages, Last post on Nov 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 12, 2008 6:29 am)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 12, 2008 6:24 am) Easy, all you need is a spouse and kids. I remember when I met my wife and her dad was an iron worker for LTV. He worked doubles 6 days a week for years and that didn't end until LTV went belly up. Particularly when he had 2 kids in college and one getting ready to go. One of my grandpa's best friends actually worked fulltime for both US Steel and Republic Steel in NW Indiana for about 20 years. Sure he made plenty of money, but he went through several wives, ended up gambling it all away, what he didn't gamble away, he drank away, then died about 10 years into retirement from a heart attack. Go figure. Still, I couldn't imagine working two 40 hour/week jobs for 20 years. I'd think that would be tough liven. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 12, 2008 6:44 am)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 12, 2008 6:51 am) I am not positive. It seems like that is what the manager at WaMU told us when we were concerned about their financial condition. |
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Replying to: tlong (Dec 11, 2008 7:47 pm) First I do not disagree that the government should not be bailing out corporations or individuals. BUT when I talked to Milton last week he said that this is a case where the government needs to do something to keep millions more of americans from losing their jobs and making it worse. Whoops, could not have been Milton, he died 2 years ago. Where did your hear that he said that all the suppliers would be fine if GM went under? 
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 11, 2008 8:03 pm) So funny. Here GM is ready to go out of business and the UAW says it will not speed up its concessions and get parity with the other non union shops to save their own jobs. For those who said the domestics should have not have caved in to the UAW demands when the big 3 were making money a little knock on the head. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 12, 2008 6:29 am) Paying 4.25% and getting 3.75%. Well worth it to have a bit of cushion if GM goes under. |
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Replying to: meglassakt (Dec 12, 2008 1:18 am) If that were true the jails would be overflowing. Contracts are broken every minute of the day. Lots of union contracts are supposedly illegal to break (especially public employee ones), but that doesn't seem to slow anyone down. The spin: "The UAW is deeply disappointed that Senate Republicans have blocked the bipartisan legislation that was agreed to by President Bush and congressional Democrats." Detroit Free Press
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Replying to: tlong (Dec 11, 2008 9:47 pm) It is the game of chicken, very simply put. Who will blink first? UAW or the Government? |
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