Harry Bennet
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I couldnt agree more , the current leadership does nothing to address any rumors at all , and lies have become an art form and noboby speaks up its a shame . The company and the union should come to our defense. They expect us to do it for them its time for them to show us alittle LOYALTY .
For once I agree -NOBODY stands up for the actual people who put together engines and trucks.
The CO. don't care and Solidarity house is more interested in Casino workers
'We're not Bankers' is a horrible counter measure - After I read it, my very next thought was, 'yeah bankers only make $25 an hour'
'tough as steel' is much better
But what really turns people against the UAW and the Detroit Big 3 is EVERYONE has a story about a bad car or truck
Maybe some stories about workers fixing cars before they leave the factory or saving the company money by reducing work-- instead of some story of a drunk chairman or some worker's 8th trip to rehab
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Did anyone else catch the opening of Saturday Night Live last night. It was pretty humorous watching them make fun of the big 3 hearing last week.
-- yes --
we have a whole factory that makes nothing but lemons
HA HA HA
Go UNION!!!
HA HA HA
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Why is this guy allowed to continue to post in an Employee only forum? Someone ban his ass!
Because I work at Ford. I just get my KoolAid from a different fountain
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#1 there is only about $1 billion in the strike fund.
#2 If the UAW would have demanded GM and Ford to keep investing money in the U.S. instead of building new plants in China, India, Russia and the list goes on, Ford and GM would have $30-$50 billion each in the bank. Add up all of the money Ford spent on Jag., LR, Volvo, Mazda and the new plants in China, Latin America, Russia, Turkey and you will soon find that Ford spent over $30 billion and have little to show for it. Ford never made any profit on Jag. but spent over $12 billion buying and upgrading Jag. This is when they let the American plants that made Ford the profits Atlanta, Norfolk, Twin Cities, St. Louis starve for funds to continue to operate. Look at Twin Cities the Ranger is 15 years old without a model change because Ford wants to bring the new small truck from Asia. When is the union going to stand up?
Sooooo. .
Saving GM is a waste of the UAW's money?
the UAW has better use of the rank-and-files' money than saving GM?
like what? organizing more casinos and graduate students?
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File under: Put yer $$$ where your mouth is.
If the SOLIDARITY House wants to save GM, let Gettelfinger throw in the strikefund!!
Is there going to be a strike? no
so let the UAW save GM
If the UAW thinks GM won't pay them back, then they should hold onto the strike money
DARE YA
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Of course I disagree. The US taxpayers on the 2 coasts and the South don't care about the UAW or Detroit. The USA, outside of the Rustbelt, know the UAW is a place where people who can't read or pass a drug test get $29/hr with no co-pays. The Big 3/UAW worker makes about the same as a cop, a teacher, or a nurse. In California, NO ONE would pay a roofer $29/hr and that's how they see the UAW - just manual labor.
When Gettelfinger says the UAW won't budge, its just MORE BAD press for the UAW. The taxpayers will get in their Camrys and Accords and drive away
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the perfect bail-out would be for the detroit 3 to be merged together, renamed UAW, and use ALL the VEBA money to run the new auto company
I am sure that the UAW can design, build, and market better cars than Chrysler, Ford and GM
I dare you to put your money where your mouth is
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Chicago assembly plant is going to one shift nov 3rd. can union brothers that have experienced this share some information with us. how are jobs going to be set up. who retains what jobs. specifically jobs like, QOSC's, FPS, SPC's. and also will day shift group leaders be replaced by their night shift counterparts, if the night shift person has more seniority? will some union elected officials go back to the line or some type of job pool. all your input is appreciated...for a lot of us at CAP this is a new experience.
QOS,FPS, SPCs were NOT already cut??
I'd expect that would have been cut out long before going to 1 shift.
I'll call over there tomorrow and get that cut.
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If it was not for the economy ford would be profitable right now. The ford edge. lincoln MKS, focus, would all be best sellers in their segment. the 2010 taurus and mustang will take the country by storm. ford will be a smaller company, but a profitable one. some of us will not be here when ford becomes successful, but I will always support ford products. for many of you, it has been a long easy ride. that ride is over. more is expected from everyone.
if the economy was good, people would NOT be buying FOCUS. When the economy was cooking people bought Explorers and trucks
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Can the UAW keep its golf course?
Black Lake loses $10million
Should the UAW keep its country club?
anyone play there? Is it worth the drive??
wouldn't the UAW be better served with an education center members in metro Detorit could drive to in less than half a day?
Like in Warren or Ypsilanti?
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wasn't Wayne down to one shift last year ? now its going to 3
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if the book is not ready, how about an adobe file or some electric version?
it is 2008, why wait for the dead tree edition?
PROOF READING?
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a $100k buyout without the UAW??
awesome
that plant will never be organized
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1 unit
1 team
and 60 days after job 1. . .1 shift
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which one promised more down weeks?
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Don't worry for the UAW, it will be around long after the last plant is closed. The UAW just scored a big victory in smoke-free casinos in Atlantic City. and all this time I thought the UAW didn't care about customers
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I might have beleived you but I know real tradesmen bring their liquor into the plant with them!
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Curtis Newton, Safety rep at DTP has got to be close, 1958?
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30-and-Out -- use it or lose it
save a job - retire already
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Thanks
This is the best thread in a long time
Great points, intelligently made.
I am a bit scared for the economy as a whole, with the Babay Boomers retiring. I am nost so worried about the turnover of my tradesmen becuase I have faith in the training programs in place. I must give kudos to UAW skilled trades programs.
I still find the notion of UAW-Skilled Trades a paradox, its a union formed because everyone considered them UNskilled
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What's the problem with a North America Union?
I though most of the people on this forum were pro-union?
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we have met the enemy . . and it is US
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What happened? The compnaies where the UAW represent are shrinking, so the UAW itself is shrinking. Auto buildin is in the private sector so there is competition. In almoest all cases, non-union companies will beat out union ones, I think the only exceptions have been in the service sector, like airlines.. The consumer public, the customer, just does not identify with the people the UAW represents. Customers don't think twice about buying Toyota, Honda, Kia, or any non-UAW car.
The UAW has a huge image problem to the American public. Too many stories of crappy cars, rusty trucks, wife beating drunks keeping their assembly line jobs, nepotism, and 60 year people who won't retire.
That's what has happend to the UAW, image problem
Internally, I have no clue what's wrong with the UAW, except what you all write on this board, 'can't directly vote for President, Local chairman calling superintendent nigger, drunk chairman hangs out a bar all day,' you know, that stuff
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What happened to the UAW? Well, they WON! After they won 30-and-out, there was not much left to do.
So very much like George W Bush and Iraq, there was no plan for after the victory. The Big 3 were forced to succumb to the UAW, designs were picked to create jobs - not consumer demands. and with that noose around the Big 3, the imports were ready to crack into the market and steal it. It took 30 years but the UAW allowed it and the customers didn't care, don't care, and ain't never gonna care about $30/hr and not even required to finish high school.
People used to say"I could never buy an import, not after Pearl Harbor and WW2", now they say" I could never buy a union product, not built by those lazy drunks"
The customer left and is not coming back anytime too soon
And NO ONE in the UAW leadership is doing anything to get a single car sold!
That's got to prove to you that the rank-and-file mean very little at Solidarity house on Jeffereson Ave
The UAW is still winning-- there will be a UAW long after the Big 3 are gone. Today, the UAW is a law firm, you are member for dues only.
Someday soon, some other lawyers are gonna ask the UAW to give each retiree and buyout ex-memeber a little piece of the strike fund-- and that will be a fun day
Today the UAW represents a $14/hr job, just look at Delphi hiring in Flint
UAW rejects GM, Chrysler proposal in loan talks
in Ford Employee Forum
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Why doesn't the UAW take GM stock for the VEBA? If the UAW doesn't value GM stock then why should Wall Street?
If the UAW says no, its the end of GM