Posted on 09/22/2009 6:47:29 AM PDT by Abathar
UAW Moves St. Louis Workers To Ind.
KOKOMO, Ind. -- Nearly 200 Chrysler workers in Kokomo will soon be out of work again as part of a union agreement that will allow out-of-state workers to take their jobs.
The move comes after a plant in St. Louis shut down. According to a United Auto Workers contract, 178 of the workers with the most seniority will be offered positions in Kokomo, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.
President of Local 685 Richie Boruff said that local members fought hard to prevent the move, but eventually lost the fight.
One worker told Carmack by e-mail, "Why should Hoosiers who have lived and worked here most of their lives be thrown into the street to make room for people who will work here a few years then go back to St. Louis?"
Others said they understand that times are tough all over.
"Yeah it is fair. It's in the language of the contract. It's something we have to deal with and go on," said worker Kevin Baumis.
Sylvia Gromko, who has been laid off from Chrysler in Kokomo for more than a year, said she hoped she would be among the next workers called back.
"Obviously, it makes me unhappy that they're coming here, but at the same time, they've got a lot of time in, and they're trying to retire, and everyone's trying to find work," she said. "It's not that it's not fair, it's just hard to take."
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Perhaps it's a good time to buy stock in pick-axe handle makers...
Well they voted for ‘hope and change’ now they’re hoping that the change won’t be the end of their jobs.
The union hope and change. Fighting over scrapes instead of rebuilding the industry.
History shows men of determination drew blood,and made mayhem against their foe.
We may just BE hopelessly lost when we construe a bunch of talk for fight
I like the idea of a boot ....
You come out and find a boot on your car ... furious, you head for city hall to pay all those fines you owe and just TRY to find officer Friendly, the one that locked the boot on your car.
The boot prompted you to action.
Why would you be furious? You accept the national contract that is bargained for you but wouldn’t accept a national union move like this. If you accept one, you have to accept them both.
You don’t have to like it.
The truth is, they really don’t work for Chrysler - they work for the UAW.
Exactly my point, this is why I would never want to work in a union shop.
It's starting to look like Mr. Hope and "change the nation from a the most free and prosperous one in the world to a 3rd world communist dictatorship" is working towards the end of their jobs, and accelerating that reality by starting trade wars with China, who are threatening to put levies of their own on the car parts and cars exported to China, which is worth around 10 billion a year.
Mind you, it's this very same union that is running "buy American" campaigns and demanding that Obama place tariffs on Chinese steel and tires, because they are too stupid to understand that American consumers couldn't possibly support 1/2 of the current work force, which has already been reduced by more than 4 million jobs, and more than half of what is still being produced in this country is exported. Starting trade wars will only cause other countries, as China has demonstrated, to enact "buy Chinese' programs of their own, which would devastate millions more jobs. Plus, unemployed Americans, even if they wanted to play "buy American"- couldn't, because they have no money.
The truth is that they work for the US Government.
You nailed it! In fact, when will a company embrace that concept, tell the union that henceforth operations will be outsourced to the union if they are willing to compete for the services contract and that we have employees no longer.
Unions are anti-reason, anti-freedom, and anti-American. The fact that these workers seem to be just fine having people 500 miles away come in and take food off their tables out of some sense of “fairness” is amazing to me. These aren’t men, they’re sheep. No wonder they love zero.
That was my exact point people fail to see here. These workers are told they will be laid off so others can take their place and feed their families AND THEY ACCEPT IT!!
If this was tried on a large scale there will eventually be a backlash, but it seems since only 200 people were hurt they can live with it.
Unbelievable.
if a Kokomo GM worker had seniority over someone in, say, Saginaw, Michigan, he’d have no qualms about taking the gig and moving up there. In my experience Union guys just like to bitch, no matter what kind of deal they’ve got.
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