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Posted on 09/23/2010 7:29:51 AM PDT by Scythian
An older buddy of mine spent his career at the UAW organized Allis-Chalmers tractor plant. One of the stairwells in the plant was just for sleepers. No one went there unless to catch a nap.
Now that’s funny
LOL. Good one!
Oh, excuse me, were you asking a serious question? /sarc
You would never go broke owning a party store across the street from an auto plant.
They just go in for a sandwich and a pop, right?
The Omni/Horizons were coming off the line at the rate of one every 55 seconds. Later, they made the vans and this slowed things down a bit.
The difference is you can't get rid of the union screw-offs.
I will bet you will not see any footage from the video in a 2011 Jeep Cherokee commercial.
Brian Bosworth, the University of Oklahoma football player related some
of the similar BS at the GM plant in Oklahoma City (now closed!!!).
When he worked during summers, he said it was not uncommon to have
workers place pop-cans inside the door panels or suspend an nut/washer on
a string so the car would have knocks/noises.””””
Both myself & my first husband worked at American Motors in Kenosha under George Romney—Mitt’s father.
I worked in the Accounts payable section of the offices & he worked in the axle area.
He thought it was sooooo funny that workers would put an old-fashioned Coca Cola bottle inside a door panel & button it all up. All his buddies in the union were giddy about who could find the best way to leave a rattle inside the car.
The rattle would drive a new owner nuts.
His perverted sense of humor is just one reason why I divorced him & never looked back.
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did they get a $6 billion bail out too?
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fox Television Stations, Inc..
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The cognitive dissonance in your post is amazing.
You're probably a union member. Couldn't cut it on your own ability so you had to resort to extortion.
Many of the folks that I work with are awakening, although slowly. I try to talk sense to as many as are receptive.
The problem is that there is no fixing stupid. When The dems cause the economy to crash, as is inevitable now, these folks are screwed. Many are starting to realize it.
You're definitely an idiot. Couldn't get someone to mindlessy bash in lockstep with you so you resort to ad hominem attacks.
These employees, while currently on suspension, will ultimately be reinstated under the existing Company/UAW bargaining agreement regarding disciplinary action.
While not defending the UAW, they are obligated to represent these employees and insure they get reinstated in accordance with the UAW contract. To not do so would open them up to lawsuits contending the employees were not properly represented by their union and that the company was remiss in not honoring the existing contract.
It's a Catch-22 unless the UAW is willing to renegotiate the disciplinary action language in their contract............
That's not likely to happen and all of this will blow over and life in the auto plants will continue on as usual............
I once owned a Chrysler LeBaron built at that plant; I remember that from the sticker on the new car. No wonder that car never made it to the 50,000 miles mark. And that was long before Chrysler was managed by the federal government!
Their "Culture" is one of the Union or a Collective Statist mentality where they sell their individuality for security and oneness to the New God ("The State"), the Demi-State or Apparatchik Wing of it the "Unions"...
Their are tons of good ones.
I'll save the horror story I have heard from good friends, yes the dysfunctionality of substance abuse exist, but the Unions are the enablers....
Well, this ought to separate the medical marijuana libertarians from the conservatives around here. ;’) thanks grellis.
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