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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Jan 13, 2009 6:10 am) The worse thing is that it is affecting the U.S. taxpayer! Why should the U.S. taxpayer have to fund an agreement between GM and its workers, when they made an agreement they can't afford to give (the company); or afford to accept (taking too much for GM to be viable)? To me the common sense solution that almost every other business would have to do is: 1) reduce the pay and benefits of retirees or active personnel to what the company can afford, or 2) the company goes bankrupt and possibly all workers and retirees lose everything. All of the problems GM and all the parties can be fixed by rewriting the paper contracts they have. They need to live within their income. It's not the taxpayers problem to guarantee the excessive promises that were made between GM and its workers (past and present).
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 13, 2009 7:48 am) Same for carspace pages.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 13, 2009 7:48 am) Mine would say..."I thought I told you NOT to use any of the bailout money to invest in Madof's fund?? Now we'll get pennies on the dollar but at least it's easier to hide the loss this time!. What do I ride in on my next trip to Washington to ask for more funding in March? The Camaro is delayed, you Dolt!!" Regards, OW |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jan 13, 2009 8:09 am) Nice captions y'all but the idea is to post them in the blog. Otherwise Sneakers will yell at me. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 13, 2009 8:43 am) My condolences. Maybe Microsoft could unionize and the UAW could write the next verison of IE? 
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Replying to: tlong (Jan 13, 2009 9:01 am) The UAW wins one. Only took six months or so (plus a year long work stoppage before that). I have no idea if this plant is making ball bearings for the auto industry or not - looks like a lot of Ag stuff, but maybe they do some car transmission bearings. |
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 13, 2009 8:05 am) |
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http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-autos/idUSTRE50A2VM20090111 I guess nothing is going to change until total failure results. The UAW is just not going to back down from their beliefs in their entitlements.
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Replying to: tlong (Jan 13, 2009 11:03 am) I can hear the whining and crying now when the retirees get their pension cut and have to go on Medicare like the rest of US poor retirees. It is not like they have not had plenty of opportunity to help GM right the ship. They just keep going on strike poking more holes in the sides. The UAW is protesting the bailout that will keep GM from C11 another couple months. The UAW is giving Unions a huge BLACK EYE. People see their ignorance and think all union workers are that ungrateful. UAW stupidity |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 13, 2009 11:21 am) http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/detroits-downturn-its-the-productivity-stupid/ This from a supervisor of UAW employees. One afternoon I was helping oversee the plant while upper management was off site. The workers brought an RV into the loading yard with a female “entertainer” who danced for them and then “entertained” them in the RV. With no other management around, I went to labor relations for assistance. As a twenty-five-year-old woman, I was not about to try to break up a crowd of fifty rowdy men. The labor relations rep pulled out the work rules and asked me which of the rules the men were breaking. I read through the rules and none applied directly, of course. Who wrote work rules to cover prostitutes at lunch? The only “legal” cause I had was an unauthorized vehicle and person and that blame did not fall on the union workers who were being “entertained” but on the security guards at the gate. Not one person suffered any consequence.
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