[Hot Tabasco]

No they weren't, the decision to ban soldiers with foreign cars was issued by Solidarity, not activists and supported by Gettlefinger himself. Gettlefinger eventually backed down from his initial position but only after the damage was done. The commandant of the facility had found another accomodating business who was willing to allow the military personnel to park in their lot and basically told the UAW where to stick it!@.

Here's a link to the orignial article:

www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0503/13/C01-115531.htm

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

No they weren't, the decision to ban soldiers with foreign cars was issued by Solidarity, not activists and supported by Gettlefinger himself.

When I speak of union activists, the 15 percent who take the Kool Aid, I mean the union bosses (Gettlefinger) and their henchmen -- the union president, the business agents, the shop stewards, and the featherbedded hacks who hold the picket signs. The rest, the chumps, are there for the money.

All unions are power organizations run like mafia mobs. Most of the union members are chumps who need to make a living. My point is that the socialist-communist national organizations have ursurped loacal union leadership. That's why all this crap about homosexuals is now part of union politics. The basic union chump does not care for this. Expect a change. The change will blow the national leadership away once the chumps find all their pensions have been stolen. It's coming as sure as the sun rises and sets.