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Replying to: dino001 (Jan 06, 2009 8:23 am) You have choice when you spend your money as you choose. WE would like the same consideration and believe the more choice the better for WE the consumer, not to mention the WE also get better pricing when more players are involved. Do you know how many UAW members take Viagra? How many UAW members are over weight? How many UAW members are lazy? This is nothing but a pathetic attempt to smear good hard working folks. WE would rather you go to Mexico, Germany, Japan, or China, just for the principle. |
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Replying to: lumoy (Jan 06, 2009 4:45 pm) I hope you are wrong, as it will bankrupt America, as the UAW has done their part to bankrupt GM and Chrysler. And if they need my tax dollars to keep going they ARE BANKRUPT. Whether they file or not. the canadian region even broke away from the uaw and became the independent canadian auto workers union. According to what I have read it was due to UAW unscrupulous tactics. maybe i'll die but i'm not going give you that satisfaction of making me select between those two options. It has to be a shock living your whole life in a dream world of Utopian wealth and to find one day it was built on sand. Reality will make the choice for you. You may have to join millions of US poor Union folks that get by with Medicare and a supplement. I was promised Medical, dental and eyecare for life also. After 20 years of expectation the reality of bankrupting our pension by giving it all to the medical industry, forced a choice on the Pension trust directors. I am glad they did not choose to bankrupt the Pension fund.
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Replying to: dino001 (Jan 06, 2009 2:15 pm) Grassley seeks transparency from AIG regarding use of Fed loan dollarsWASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked American International Group, Inc., AIG, to disclose its expenditures so far of the $123 billion lent by the Federal Reserve Bank in order to prevent the company from filing for bankruptcy. Grassley based his inquiry on an October 30 New York Times story which is included here with his letter of inquiry. October 30, 2008 Mr. Edward M. Liddy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer American International Group, Inc. 70 Pine Street New York, NY 10270 Dear Mr. Liddy: Today, a story in The New York Times reported that the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has already used $90 billion of the $123 billion lent to it by the Federal Reserve only one month ago. The article also notes that AIG has refused to provide the public with a detailed and transparent accounting of what that money has been used for, offering only that “some is being used to shore up its securities-lending program, some to make good on its guaranteed investment contracts, some to pay for day-to-day operations and […] tens of billions of dollars to post collateral with other financial institutions.” AIG’s use of the Federal Reserve loans is ofgreat interest to the American people because they are footing the bill. Moreover, some experts believe that AIG will need additional funding over and above the $123 billion the Federal Reserve has already lent it. As Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, I request that you provide a briefing to my Committee staff regarding this issue. In addition, please provide responses to the following questions: 1) Please provide a full and detailed accounting of AIG’s $90 billion (or more) in expenditures to date. 2) When does AIG anticipate using all of the $123 billion emergency loan it received?3) How much more money does AIG believe it will need to borrow in the future?4) When can American taxpayers expect AIG to repay the loan it received?
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Replying to: lumoy (Jan 06, 2009 5:32 pm) You really need to quit reading those liberal blogs. You have such a hatred for Republicans that you cannot even believe the truth coming from your own UAW members. Here is a story of Oscar that filed for bankruptcy because loss of OT cut his wages down to $87,000 per year. It makes me cry for the guy each time I read it in your own liberal Detroit News. As was pointed out. Most any fork lift operator in the USA would be sitting in hog heaven making $87k per year. Not the spoiled UAW workers of Michigan. I know PHDs in San Diego that would be tickled to make that much. http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0509/18/A01-318432.htm
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 06, 2009 6:09 pm) Perhaps they should organize and have the UAW represent them. Are you sure they have a PHD? Maybe the said GED from MIT???? |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 06, 2009 5:51 pm) health care premiums going up 15-20% per year for many years can no longer be sustained. we are already paying over 15% of our GDP and almost 46 million ( i was off by 2 i am told) have no insurance coverage. canada and most of the countries with UNIVERSAL health care are ranked ahead of usa in terms of favorable health care outcomes by world heath organization and pay anywhere from 7-10% of GDP what is medicare?- single payer, national health care system --government pays doctor and medical bills but with an age 65 qualification. ask a medicare covered individual to give it up because his doctor or nurse looks like a socialist. just remove age 65 barrier. what unscrupulous tactics?? canadian chrysler plants were part of a single international master agreement with us/ chrysler plants. canadians were on the uaw negotiating team at highland park. congress told chrysler if you want a billion re-open that agreement and eat some concessions. canadian locals said no-- us government can't dictate terms of an agreement for canadians. us government said ok but that means that the usa plants have to eat even more concessions to make up for your refusal to take any. us chrsyler membership then went thru second round of concessions to make up canadian difference. loan made, plants on both side of detroit river--including canadian plant stayed open and survived. canadian uaw chysler took no concessions; usa chrysler workers took a double hit. relations between locals in canada and local in usa soured somewhat with bob white (Canadian regional director) demanding a divorce from the UAW. Bieber agreed--gave Canadians all UAW property in canada and slice of uaw strike fund. i delivered the check personally to bob white at the airport in toronto. i have now told you three times you were covered by a defined contribution or taft hartley trust funds plan. you were never promised lifetime benefits. prove me wrong!! you may have been told that the parties hoped the fixed money contributed would be adequate depending on good investments and stable health care costs. you should have understood then but since you don't understand it even now--all your employer ever promised was to put XX dollars an hour per hour worked into a fund to provide your health and pension benefits. ironic that you may have got what you deserved. you didn't want "socialized medicine" so health care costs and premiums doubled every 5-6 years in the usa and the trust funds were not adequate to keep up with the 15-20% yearly cost increases for your health care. trustes stepped in and said we can't afford to pay these outrageous costs anymore so your benefits are gone sometimes there is something called poetic justice and you apparently got exactly what you deserved and still i bet you vote against your own interests. is it beginning to sink in that if the clinton health care plan had been put into effect you trust fund would probably have survived today . big 3/uaw retirees were promised lifetime health care benefits and a precise monthly pension by the Big3. that is the difference between a defined benefit plan (UAW) and a defined contribution plan (teamsters). you got everything your employer promised you over your work life XX dollars per hour worked into a fund. big3 retirees had a different promise (a specific benefit) that they at least believe they earned and do not want to give back.. please reread this answer several times because i am done.
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Unions are the reason people have 40 hour work weeks, health insurance, and don't get fired when they have a child. Your anecdotes (and every other one that right wing mouth breathers regurgitate when someone talks about unions) don't change the fact that one of the biggest reasons for the rise of the middle class in the US is the existence of unions. Unless you are descendant of a robber baron, you probably should be thankful for what unions have given you. Maybe Rush Limbaugh didn't tell you about that? That doesn't mean that unions go to far in some cases or have had corruption in others, but for the most part, they've been good for average people, and bad for corporate ogligarchs |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 06, 2009 6:09 pm) laughed out load (thanks i needed that!) at your oxymoron phrase "liberal detroit news" you probably did not notice the 5 year labor dispute (strike) in detroit in the 90's. detroit news hired permanent scabs to replace striking workers detroit was a labor town and was torn apart. detroit news has been called a lot of names over the years but i can guarantee you that this is the first time anyone in the entire world ever used the word "liberal" in front of their name. . hell they make fox noise sound fair and balanced by contrast.''' thanks again |
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Replying to: lumoy (Jan 06, 2009 7:03 pm) Our pension was never provided by our employer, other than the hourly contributions. It was paid into our pension trust with the Alaska Teamsters. There were a lot of retirees that did get the health care benefit for a time. Then they were cut off and all future retirees with them. The only thing negotiated with the company was the size of the contribution to the Pension. Which until I retired was $7 per hour. My company fulfilled its obligation. Time will tell if your company will do the same. big 3/uaw retirees were promised lifetime health care benefits and a precise monthly pension by the Big3. The only real difference is when one of the automakers goes bust there goes the PROMISED health care. canadian locals said no-- us government can't dictate terms of an agreement for canadians. Wiki has it a bit different saying there were discrepancies favoring the UAW over the Canadians. No mention of Chrysler. As the split was several years after the Bailout of Chrysler. Then what does wiki know you were there. It also explains your adamant defense of UAW leadership. By December 1984, significant differences in the value of negotiated contracts, and divergent union objectives had set the stage for the creation of the CAW, a process documented in the Genie Award winning film, Final Offer. In 1984, the Canadian section of the UAW, under the leadership of Bob White and his assistants Buzz Hargrove and Bob Nickerson, broke from the UAW because the American union was seen as giving away too much in the way of concessions during collective bargaining. Additionally, the UAW had been lobbying the U.S. Congress to force the transfer of auto production from Canada to the U.S. and the Canadian branch felt there was a lack of a representative voice during UAW's conventions. By 1985 the split from the American union was complete and Bob White was acclaimed as the first President of the CAW. He went on to serve 3 terms as president So I will stick with my claim of unscrupulous tactics by the UAW against the CAW. Of course you being one of the insiders will defend UAW corruption as long as you are breathing. That is why you sidestep every issue presented that would put the UAW in any kind of bad light. Such as the recent strikes when GM was bleeding red ink. The UAW has given collective bargaining a bad name. No better than Jimmy Hoffa did with the Teamsters.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 06, 2009 6:09 pm) i read the story from the troy from "liberal" detroit news about the $87,000 delphi worker filing for bankruptcy when his overtime was cut. It is possible to gross that much if you work tons of overtime and weekends/ holidays. I have heard of workers doing 12 hours a day during great sale years. do the math 40 hours at 28 plus the overtime (time and half), making it 70 hours times 28 == almost $2000 a week. of course, holidays can be doubletime not sure anyone can physically sustain that for a year or that management wouldn't get around to finally transferring in or hiring a new employee to reduce such costs. not a lot of overtime in the last year or so. there may have been a handful of such supermen which then gives you the ability to unfairly make it seem that such efforts are common or routine --if you are comfortable with that style. . do you really think it is fair to pick out such unusual efforts and then make it appear that all uaw big three workers have such earnings? i had heard that some of the big 3 plants preferred to have workers work overtime rather than to hire a new worker. |
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