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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 13, 2009 12:21 pm) 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 12:55 pm) "Hey, we don't suck as much as we thought we did."..... |
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Replying to: mikefm58 (Jan 13, 2009 12:55 pm) 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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is rocky???...he needs to keep telling me how "well-trained" and "skilled" and "intelligent" these UAW workers are, because from what I see I can assure you I will forget unless he keeps reminding me... The UAW is putting on a show for the rest of the nation, and they are too stupid to see how ridiculous they are...a stupid politician, if not in my district, I can't vote out...but the UAW???...all I have to do is look Japanese next car, and they are one step closer to history... Talk about the "sheep" or "lemming" mentality, they are truly reinforcing what I learned about them in the 1980s...and, no, I am not living in the past...THEY are living in the past, as the world really has changed, and they are, to put it mildly (and not insult the mentally handicapped) acting like spoiled brats throwing tantrums... Don't be surprised if this BS of theirs loses them even MORE customers, when even the ignorant layman (not us intelligent car-guys/gals) realizes what the union is and what it is good for...nada...
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jan 13, 2009 8:35 pm) It's the UAW way. They are rallying the hatred already....instead of spending time developing themselves for new opportunities. The US auto industry is not where I would be spending my time defending a career right about now. Instead of being grateful to get a handout, they blindly fight for a lost cause. The bailout is really cloaked bankruptcy and yet they rally around fair wages when cuts are the new game with new rules delivered by Uncle Sam. Regards, OW
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jan 13, 2009 8:35 pm) I love my Toyotas! |
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Replying to: circlew (Jan 14, 2009 5:31 am) |
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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)? Right on. he needs to keep telling me how "well-trained" and "skilled" and "intelligent" these UAW workers are, because from what I see I can assure you I will forget unless he keeps reminding me... I say: if the UAW workers are "well trained", "skilled" and "intelligent", then I am "genius" "superman" and "god"  I'm looking forward to another strike by march 31st. |
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