and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 01/29/2010 2:15:53 AM PST by Daisyjane69
On March 31st, NUMMI, the UAW-represented joint venture between Toyota and General Motors, will be closing its doors in California, throwing another 4,700 United Auto Workers out of work.
With 80% of the UAW members upset with their union, this past Sunday, the Union of Ailing Workplaces (aka UAW) held a membership meeting that turned into a shouting match between rank-and-file members and their union leadership.
At one point, one UAW leader (identified as Javier Contreras) yelled at the crowd, telling them to “…Shut the f*ck up, you motherf*ckers!…”
Things got so bad, that UAW leaders had to call the police to restore order.
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In detroit, the mayor halted this practice. Unionized city workers now have to pay the dues themselves. Man, the union heirarchy had and continues to have a major cow....hilarious
I would dare you to go into NYC and try to work.
LOL....after he says that, one guy is yelling to "beat his a$$".
LOL,,,We ain’t bringin’ no blueberry muffins neither,Daisy.
Now,,,I’ll have to give it to the unions that pushed the
Mine safety laws,,,
Too many men died before they were passed,,,
China comes to mind...
Maybe so, but I don't see the tough guys who run the UMW rushing off to China to organize the miners there. I wonder why.
“I posted it because the vitriol was just shocking.”
Shocking, my beutress (as they say in UN talk). But it is informative to anyone buying a car. Somehow I don’t think people have those attitudes at Japanese plants, or non-union US plants.
But the unions are like an evil, destructive force - and will always be that way.
But that’s the sad thing about it.
Like so many good ideas, they start out with the best of intentions.
Unions had and have a legitimate place. They safeguard the rights of workers, and ensure safe working conditions. No one is against that, even here on Free Republic.
But somewhere along the way, the unions decided that they were just important as the financial risk-takers, when they themselves put no skin in the game.
Once they decided they were entitled to the rewards of the industry, with zero exposure to the risk...game over.
And I think that’s where we are.
and placed right below the “Live better/ work union” ones.
I know a bunch of FORMER UAW members in the Mansfield, OH area who would love to have an up close and personal conversation with Javier Contreras.
Maybe so, but I don’t see the tough guys who run the UMW rushing off to China to organize the miners there. I wonder why.
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Mite be because China will KILL them ?
Mite be because they can’t make any money ?
I really don’t give a rat’s ass what happens in China...
stoopid firewall!
pinging for later
“They think they’re goodfellas.”
They are, at least by association, and probably by having financed many a wiseguy’s income with their dues.
John Dos Passos, a noted radical author was so dismayed by the corrupt union practices of the post-World War II decade, that he wrote the classic “Midcentury”. It is still the best novel on American unions. And nothing much has changed in the half-century since its publication.
And if you are a Beck objector, you get no union benefits like representation in disputes or the right to vote on contracts.
And if you DON’T join the union and seek employment in a “union shop”?
What happens?
And if the law does nothing about intimidation, threats, and violence,
then it is de facto approving of these actions.
The unions turned it into one big “Money Grab” many years ago.
Unions are very like the ACLU,
they came into existance because there was a problem,
but the problem is now solved, obviating their existance,
but they will not go quietly into that good night.
No, they have to keep drumming up more “problems” to solve, and increasing their power.
One of the big changes that I have noticed is that many of the larger unions started to hire liberal arts graduates or labor studies (read left-wing studies) to administer many of the programs, monitor contracts etc. These new staff members were never part of the craft, never went through the apprenticeship/training programs.
The membership for the most part were Reagan Democrats as you point out; the leadership and staff were leftwing and now moving to hard leftwing fascists.
FWIW, my son (union carpenter, working in Manhattan, NYC) gets his paycheck from the company he works for, but has to write a quarterly check to the union for dues.
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