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UAW Workers Walk Off the Job
#7447582 - 09/24/07 12:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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DETROIT -- United Auto Workers union members walked out of General Motors Corp. factories in the U.S. Monday morning after bargaining over a new national labor agreement failed to produce a deal by an 11 a.m. deadline – but union leaders said they planned to return to the negotiation table this afternoon.
The work stoppage was the first time in more than 30 years that the UAW has staged a mass walkout in connection with companywide contract talks.
In a sign of the complex forces at work in the Detroit auto industry, GM shares were trading higher Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, as investors cheered signs that GM management might be willing to resist UAW demands to sweeten the contract terms.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119061578440137140.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger holds a sign demanding socialized health care, at a UAW rally Detroit, July 23, 2007.
What the fuck does Universal Health care have to do with the United Auto Workers????
Idiots.
Bring on the scabs!!!!
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7448298 - 09/24/07 04:36 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> UAW President Ron Gettelfinger holds a sign demanding
Soooo... does he get the same pay as union strikers during the strike? I somehow doubt it.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: Seuss]
#7448432 - 09/24/07 05:25 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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GM/Ford already have operational plants in Mexico.......This is a double suicide. (American auto industry and the union workers)
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7449329 - 09/24/07 09:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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So are you oppossed to unions or general or just the UAW, and why?
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: gluke bastid]
#7450571 - 09/25/07 05:17 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> So are you oppossed to unions or general or just the UAW, and why?
I'm opposed to the concept of unions, not to the people in unions.
In 2006, Ron Gettelfinger (president of the UAW) earned $145,126 in salary and received $13,405 in allowances and official expenses for a total compensation of $158,530. In 2006, the UAW reported net assets of $1.23 billion. In 2006, the UAW spent $9.6 million on lobbying and political activities. There are 538,448 total members in the UAW, the lowest since WWII. The UAW paid its employees $90 million in salary in 2006. Its officers made $2.9 million in 2006, with 22 regional directors, vice presidents and other officers getting more than $100,000 each.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7450576 - 09/25/07 05:20 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: GM/Ford already have operational plants in Mexico.......This is a double suicide. (American auto industry and the union workers)
Agreed, but if talks dont resume its still going to cost GM an additional 8 billion in profits every month, if its wrapped up soon its a complete non-issue.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7450643 - 09/25/07 05:55 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dislike Unions. Great for when they were being abused by the corporations, now it seems to have done a 180. They earn more, work less, get more benifits, and still bitch, when they can be replaced with robots. Genius.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: Seuss]
#7450793 - 09/25/07 07:57 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The UAW seems to not understand that GM is close to going down the shitter and the company can't afford to give the workers all of this stuff that they want. If the company goes bankrupt because they are paying their people $30 an hour with a zillion benefits then nobody is going to get anything.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7451039 - 09/25/07 09:32 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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From what I understood in the article, the UAW is not striking for higher wages or more benefits. In fact the UAW just made a concession to GM on the health care front that would reduce GM's payment to workers by $12 to $14 an hour.
Apparently the UAW is now striking for contracts that would guarantee some sort of job security, so their jobs don't go to Asia.

All I'm sure of is that globalization is screwing over the American worker. But when has the American worker not been screwed over?
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7451067 - 09/25/07 09:40 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: In a sign of the complex forces at work in the Detroit auto industry, GM shares were trading higher Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, as investors cheered signs that GM management might be willing to resist UAW demands to sweeten the contract terms.
Fuck the investors. This quote symbolizes all that is wrong with Western civilization.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: gluke bastid]
#7451119 - 09/25/07 09:51 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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gluke bastid said: From what I understood in the article, the UAW is not striking for higher wages or more benefits. In fact the UAW just made a concession to GM on the health care front that would reduce GM's payment to workers by $12 to $14 an hour.
Apparently the UAW is now striking for contracts that would guarantee some sort of job security, so their jobs don't go to Asia.

All I'm sure of is that globalization is screwing over the American worker. But when has the American worker not been screwed over?
This strike should help their cause....
On its Web site, GM stated that hourly workers at the company in 2006 received about $73.26 per hour worked a combination of $39.68 in cash compensation and $33.58 in benefits and programs required by the government.
http://media.gm.com/manufacturing/handbook/other_benefits.pdf
Those figures indicate that without benefits, the average hourly worker takes in $82,534.40 per year, or $152,380.80 when factoring in such items as health care and five weeks of vacation.
FUCKING INSANE! all they are doing is watching a Robot do there job!
Down here (san Antonio) the Toyota plant workers average $44 in wages and benefits. (BTW the Toyota plant is going to be expanding creating more jobs!)
Hmmmmmmm $74 and hour compared to $44
can you say cost differential! HUGE cost differential......plus the made in America Toyota runs better than the made in china GM. (only assembled in America)
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: gluke bastid]
#7451215 - 09/25/07 10:17 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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gluke bastid writes:
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Apparently the UAW is now striking for contracts that would guarantee some sort of job security, so their jobs don't go to Asia.
So it would seem. From the inimitable Scrappleface we see --
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Union Plan: Cut GM Profits to Boost Job Security
by Scott Ott
(2007-09-25) — As the United Auto Workers (UAW) entered their second day of a nationwide work stoppage against General Motors, union president Ron Gettelfinger hailed the success of his plan to increase job security by slashing company production and profits.
“Our union members deserve steady employment for life as much as the autoworkers of Europe do,” said Mr. Gettelfinger. “By not producing any vehicles, the UAW proves we can compete in the global marketplace with anyone…for example, with France.”
The union boss said the strike will “send a clear message to the corporate fat cats that their primary purpose in life is to provide employment, income and health care for 73,000 Americans.”
“If they happen to make some cars and profits in the process,” Mr. Gettelfinger added, “so much the better. But G.M. can’t take their eyes off the bottom line, which is lifetime job security for union members.”
A spokesman for G.M. said, “As our factories sit idle, and sales figures begin to dive, it inspires us to look for ways to reward the people who are crippling our company and to stop looking overseas for a stable, productive workforce.”
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: Phred]
#7451223 - 09/25/07 10:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Darn dude, I'm in the wrong line of work....
Of course, I already knew that.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: Phred]
#7451278 - 09/25/07 10:43 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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whats not funny is the ultimate ending.
Taxpayer Federal Bailout....
GM currently provides health and income benefits to 461,500 retirees and their surviving spouses. GM retirees and their dependents outnumbered the company's active workforce by three-to-one. This imbalance will continue to grow as more and more retirees are supported by fewer and fewer workers....
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7452076 - 09/25/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: GM currently provides health and income benefits to 461,500 retirees and their surviving spouses. GM retirees and their dependents outnumbered the company's active workforce by three-to-one. This imbalance will continue to grow as more and more retirees are supported by fewer and fewer workers....
That's what the real albatross around GM's neck is. They are forced to pay for a bunch of shit for the retirees and GM just can't afford it. This is where unions cross the line; when they demand so much that they render the company unable to compete.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7452209 - 09/25/07 03:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Do you think the UAW’s auto-plant shutdown and a looming state-government shutdown are more than a coincidence in timing???
In the state capitol of Lansing, a Republican legislative minority is at loggerheads with Democratic governor and staunch union ally, Jennifer Granholm. Gamholm insists on plugging the state’s gaping $1.75 billion budget hole with an 18-percent income-tax increase.... The GOP insists that the Dem's must give ground on teacher pension plans, health-care plans, and privatization issues.
Michigan is Fucked.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: Seuss]
#7452259 - 09/25/07 03:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Seuss said:
In 2006, Ron Gettelfinger (president of the UAW) earned $145,126 in salary and received $13,405 in allowances and official expenses for a total compensation of $158,530.
Not to be a dick but that's hardly anything for a man in his position. That's actually quite a reasonable salary I think.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7455074 - 09/26/07 09:46 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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GM-UAW reach deal to end strike
UAW union to assume more than $50 billion in retiree health care costs.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/news/companies/uaw_gm_deal/?postversion=2007092610
The Union bosses get control of $50,000,000,000 for retiree health care trust fund....
I thought this strike was about job security?

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger holds a sign demanding socialized health care, at a UAW rally.
"What the fuck does Universal Health care have to do with the United Auto Workers????"
Now i understand why Gettelfinger holds a sign demanding socialized health care.....
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: lonestar2004]
#7455146 - 09/26/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: GM-UAW reach deal to end strike
UAW union to assume more than $50 billion in retiree health care costs.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/news/companies/uaw_gm_deal/?postversion=2007092610
The Union bosses get control of $50,000,000,000 for retiree health care trust fund....
I thought this strike was about job security?
Sounds like GM is getting just what they wanted, and the retired workers are getting taken care of.
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Re: UAW Workers Walk Off the Job [Re: gluke bastid]
#7455235 - 09/26/07 10:43 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> Sounds like GM is getting just what they wanted
What, the UAW disbanded? Wow!
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