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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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Replying to: mikefm58 (Jan 13, 2009 11:55 am) "Hey, we don't suck as much as we thought we did."..... |
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Replying to: mikefm58 (Jan 13, 2009 11:55 am) I supervised a loading dock and 21 UAW workers who worked approximately five hours per day for eight hours’ pay. They could easily load one-third more rail cars and still maintain their union-negotiated break times, but when I tried to make them increase production ever so slightly they sabotaged my ability to make even the current production levels by hiding stock, calling in sick, feigning equipment problems, and even once, as a show of force, used a fork lift truck and pallets and racks to create a car part prison where they trapped me while I was conducting inventory. The reaction of upper management to my request to boost production was that I should “not be naive.” The same thing goes on at Delphi with workers getting done in 4 hours and going home. I have no problem with piece work, as long as QC is maintained. But the UAW would scream if that was implemented. The lazy workers would make very little and the go getters would make the big bucks. That is what much of the construction industry does. My mom and grandmother worked piece work in a Union sewing shop all during the war and after.
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