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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 09, 2009 5:52 pm) So do I.  I got dealt a weird hand on the health front. I may not like that part but one learns to live with it. Loads of folks have worse. On the kid front I started late and kept going. It's like having grandkids except they don't go home.... How 'bout that UAW.... |
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Jan 09, 2009 6:55 pm) So you are saying that Bill and Hillary Clinton and the entire Democratic Congress fell for the propaganda. Bill Clinton ran on Universal health care. In fact just about every Democrat since JFK has used it to get votes. Works every time why not use it over and over again. The sheep have short memories and will forget in 4 years. What the UAW should have done is set up their own Health care system and policed those providers that over charge. I got so mad at a local doctor that took out my sons tonsils. It was of course an outpatient procedure. 4 doctors sent bills to my Teamster's insurance. They had paid $5000 before I had a chance to stop them. How do 4 doctor's get their hand into a boy's mouth at the same time. A month later a friend in Anchorage had her son's tonsils removed and the total bill was $1200. We don't need the government involved we need to police the providers. We should question every bill they send to our insurance company. We are surrounded by crooks and the Congress is the worst of the lot. |
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A big point of contention in the 1993 negotiations was the control of health care costs. U.A.W. workers have one of the most generous health care systems in American industry, and the union successfully resisted the introduction in 1993 of health insurance deductibles and co-payments for hospital stays. The latest approach of the Big Three has been to demand cost reductions and minimum quality standards from hospitals and doctors in communities where auto workers make up a large proportion of the working population. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E5DE1339F937A35757C0A96095826- 0&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 09, 2009 7:19 am) I would agree if the supply and demand of markets wasn't tampered with. Special interests and lobby's are a fact of life. Thats real money they spend to get special treatment. Millions for billions are what Washington is all about. Evidently they have plenty of money to spend on "educating/bribing" and their plans are working. This is a far cry from the capitalist system in which the market forces determine supply and demand. Fact is that this is not capitalism and or some type of capitalism which lacks moral turpitude. Its ok for these folks to defy economic law and not the UAW??? |
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Replying to: lumoy (Jan 09, 2009 6:25 pm) Thats going to happen, sure as Obama was elected. Its called progress and out with the old, in with the new. Then too we can look forward to the rebirth of the UAW and strong labor to offset big corporate multinational and big govt. Each keeping each other in check. If you think this up coming generation is going to stand for silly notions of their standard of living declining, your in for a surprise. There is a whole new breed of wildcat out there. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 09, 2009 7:04 pm) I agree with whom ever posted that paying a lug nut assembler $400,000 per year is fine as long as the company is making money and agrees to the contract. Where the rub comes in is when GM and the UAW come begging those that are lucky to be lower middle class to subsidize the UAW's opulent life style. And making $100k plus per year IS upper middle class. Top 2-3% in the nation.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 09, 2009 7:47 pm) I also think it's a bit of brinkmanship. And he's got politics on his side: "Key changes proposed by Frank would ensure oversight of the auto rescue under a trustee or "car czar" and would eliminate language on steps the United Auto Workers union must take in coming weeks to try and reduce industry costs." Proposal would drop labor targets in auto bailout (Reuters) |
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Jan 09, 2009 7:42 pm) Can't buy it. All I see is a bunch of young hoodlums with pants hanging down to their knees, tattoos all over their body and pierced like a pin cushion. They walk around clueless as to the debt they are going to have. I see mass suicide when reality sets in. You can put your hope in Obama. I think he has already seen the light and it is not the UAW he will pander to. If the UAW and GM cannot build cars to compete with China, Japan and Korea. They will no longer exist. Obama wants to see practical solutions to the energy and fossil fuel usage. GM & the UAW offer nothing but vaporware. The odds on the Volt ever ending up for sale are about the same as the EV-1.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 09, 2009 7:01 pm) but assume you are right and this was a grand show which somehow made the clintons look good, effective, and powerful 15 years ago. as you know, since then health care costs have more than doubled and you lost your health care because the teamsters defined contributions trust fund could no longer keep up with the out of sight premium increases. (that was the first time you were hoisted on your own petard!) but what is your point? are you suggesting the next round of the national health care campaign will be just be another alleged show? if that is your point the sleep easy -don't waste your time calling your congress persons to express an opinion since its all just a show - however i think you are going to be in for a surprise by this time next year when you awake-- let's see- how do we pay for national health insurance? usa is paying more than double the cost per citizen for health care of just about every country with national health care 16-18% of GDP versus 7-10% the rest of the sane industrialized world has universal coverage and we currently have lost 46 million in the canyon of no coverage. countries paying half our cost per citizens also have better overall health care as determined by the world health organization. i say that the 50% of present costs that we save under national health care be used to set up lavish golf resorts for union big shots! by gum garice you finally lead us to a great solution to everyone's problem. ( i may have to start taking lessons though and what do i do with 5 months of snow up here!) those that don't want to become socialists under national health care can move to mexico or turkey - i believe these two would be the only counties withour national health care in the semi civilized world .
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Daimler to cut 2,137 jobs in NC Freightliner plants (Land Line) It sounds like those are all UAW jobs. Another link says Freightliner workers typically earn in the low to mid-40s, plus health and retirement benefits. (KFAE)
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