Posted on 08/19/2010 10:24:04 PM PDT by Rashputin
UAW Sells Out Members, Holds On To Black Lake Resort By Edward Niedermeyer on August 19, 2010
Since taking office in June, UAW President Bob King has ramped up the rhetoric level at Solidarity Hall considerably, as he seeks to portray the union as a defender of the American middle class. But, as the old adage goes, actions speak louder than words… and King’s actions this week couldn’t paint a clearer picture of the UAW’s priorities.
On Tuesday GM announced that it would close its Indianapolis stamping plant next year, after workers there voted against a UAW-sponsored contract that would have sold the plant to Chicago-based Norman Industries and cut worker pay by as much as 50 percent. Local union members were so incensed by the UAW’s efforts to make them accept pay reductions, they shouted representatives down at angry meeting last Sunday (starting at 2:45 in the video above).
And if you think they were angry on Sunday, imagine how pissed the members of Local 23 were on Tuesday when the partially UAW-owned GM announced that the plant would cease production next June, and close by the end of 2011. Especially because they have no recourse, as the UAW agreed to a no-strike clause (ending in 2015) in exchange for its equity in GM and Chrysler.
To get the bitter taste of squelched brethren out of his mouth, UAW President Bob King took the union’s $33m Black Lake golf retreat off the market. Priorities.
It’s so madcap when cats fight themselves.
However, these are conditions that the UAW members and other union members, to a degree, bring upon themselves and tolerate. The UAW has its convention at exotic spots like Las Vegas and provides 1st class airfare and accomodations to the attendees, but not the dues payers. The idea of the equal noble workers marching shoulder to shoulder for the common good is a joke, probably in all unions.
I am hearing starter homes in Warren that went for 100k in 2006, are now going for $20 grand. Quite frankly, they are screwed, I do not see them unloading this asset for quite some time.
Just another classic example that union leaders have no place in any kind of business. How many years has it been now that any astute businessman would have instinctively known the market was not there for such a transaction?
Looks like they got shamed by the used car salesman that now occupies the White House.
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