Posted on 02/11/2012 12:02:11 PM PST by madison10
The United Auto Workers plans to take part in more non-violent protests in its fight against what it calls right-wing policies that have hurt the middle class.
UAW president Bob King told a crowd of more than 500 at the 75th anniversary of union's first contract with General Motors that more direct action like such as the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 is needed today.
“They’re trying to shred the social contract,” King said at the event held in Flint.
“We don’t spend too much. This is still a rich country The problem is we’ve lost our moral compass,” said King.
“However, the right-frame wing framework used to run the country over the past 30 years has left workers struggling to hang on to a middle class standard of living. In Michigan, we started taxing pensions, while giving a tax break to businesses,” he said.
“I know a lot of people who could collect a pension but are afraid to retire...”
(Excerpt) Read more at theoaklandpress.com ...
>> I’ll Never buy one of their cars again.
Not directly, but the next Cash-4-Clunkers and Bailout will definitely put you on the hook... again.
Don’t you also love it when liberals say that Republicans are “shredding the social contract”? They make it sound like the contract is a thin little piece of paper. No, the contract is gigantic, runs for thousands of pages, and is bankrupting us.
Thanks!
Wow! Is that story true about sabotage at Willow Run? I can’t find any sources that mention it.
It used to be more well known, and you’re right: Not much about Willow Run specifically on the ‘net, though the general story of union sabotage during the Nazi-Soviet Pact is well known.
See post #18 for how I learned the story.
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