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UAW strikes GM's Malibu plant in Kansas:

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The UAW on Monday morning struck a General Motors assembly plant that makes the hot-selling Chevrolet Malibu sedan. Members of UAW Local 31 in Kansas City, Kansas, walked out at 10 a.m. Eastern at GM's Fairfax assembly plant.

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Don't these people understand that the economy sucks, the dollar sucks, gas prices suck, and this stuff right now only makes it all worse? C'mon!
 
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Ok, don't get me wrong - Unions have screwed up more than a few things in the past....

I was brought up in a Union house. My dad delievered beer from 1954-1975. He then became a business agent for the Teamsters - save all your jokes, I have heard them all :BangHead:

He was able to provide for his family of 4, put food on the table (although a lot of meatloaf in the 70's when times were tough), put two kids thought catholic school, private high school (for me) and college degrees (BA and MA). He was able to do this partly because he wanted me and my sister to have better than he and my mom did, but mostly by having a good union job and strong financial management (his first credit card was long into retirement). I know that times have changed, but we cannot ignore the fact that unions made working conditions safe, wages competitive, and health insurance available.

Now before you start "quoting" me all over this board, sure a lot of people F*$^ed this up, but that is a microcosom of society - there are people every where who screw good things up for others - the unions do not have a monopoly on this. I have seen the unions lose their focus the last 10-15 years - hell my sister has worked two union jobs since high school and has seen the union leaders get greedy and lose sight of the best interest of its members (much like politicians have lost sight of its constituency).

Just because we want something - the "COT" of Camaros - is not grounds to bash something that has unarguably provided certain amounts of good to many people over the years.

If you really want to ***** - call your congress man/woman and ask them how the US Airforce gave a military contract building fighter jets to a foreign country and not Lockheed or Boeing, hence stimulating a foreign economy and not our own.

Sorry, I will get off my soapbox for now.
 
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If you really want to ***** - call your congress man/woman and ask them how the US Airforce gave a military contract building fighter jets to a foreign country and not Lockheed or Boeing, hence stimulating a foreign economy and not our own.

Sorry, I will get off my soapbox for now.
Since I was an Air Force Contracting Officer for 6 years, I'm curious as to which fighter jet is being built by a foreign company, considering Boeing got the F-22 contract and LM got the F-35 contract...So exactly WHICH fighter jet is being built overseas?
 
#10 ·
You know nothing and your opinion is based on complete ignorance of the system. Do you realize that they would have been in deep poo if they'd awarded to any American company after Darleen Druyun screwed it up for Boeing? There were two companies positioned to make this type of equipment. Airbus was the only other choice since Darleen and Boeing were "in bed" together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun
 
#11 ·
Back on topic:

We're talking about the strike at the Malibu and crossover factories. I'd like to know the logic for the strike on some of GM's best sellers.

"Neither GM nor the UAW would specify reasons for the strike"

If it's not important enough to come out and specify then why strike?
 
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"The cost of everything in this country is raising exponentially. The basic materials used in industries like the automotive industry have costs that are not controlled by just our Country, but by the world market. Steel and Aluminum have OUTRAGEOUS prices right now." -- Devryn

At least we agree on something.

As for the CEO's being educated and the members not, I will agree and concede that most union members are greedy and only want the money. But tell that to a teacher (who's union in Los Angeles is pretty f****d up by its own right) who does not have books or has 40 students, or kids who do not speak the language. The union is the only way to stave off problems.

I am not saying that unions are the end all be all. There time has passed - at least in its current form.

Finally, and I do not want to belabor the point :BangHead: - you have the right to you opinion (more than most because of your service to our county) and I have mine. The tough part for me with regards to management vs labor - I am paying $4 a gallon for gas and the Oil Companies are making record profit. I guess it is supply and demand. I could quit my current job and look for a higher paying job, as I do have 2 degrees, but I love what I do. Remember, all these CEO's have great educations - not without teachers, who seem to get the short end of the stick anyway.
 
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Teaching is not an industry, though I do agree teachers need higher pay, they'll never get it, because teaching isn't very high on the hierarchy in a capitalist society. Because they're not an "industry" they have no bargaining chip. They could try to walk out, but nobody is going to give them a stipend to help keep them afloat during a strike.

Oh, and I doubt your college professors were hurting for money.
 
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