[Gabrial]

I worked in an auto plant in my youth. The UAW had a portion of the grounds where “Management” was prohibited from going. The union workers would go there on their lunch break. Many would smoke pot and come back into the plant to assemble axles for Chevy vans and trucks.

I have never owned a Chevy van or truck because of what I witnessed firsthand.

[Ev Reeman]

No friggin wonder Chrysler needed a bailout.

The government should have allowed them to go under and die without a single bailout and without a single dollar of taxpayer money.

[wmileo]

HOPE and CHANGE @ WORK means CHYRSLER UAW Employees are DWW(Drunk While Working).

I can hardly wait until those 2011 Grand Cherokees hit the road, can't you?

I hope they all stay @ the Dealer Lots since they won't be road worthy.

Insist that the Employees take one each instead of lifetime health insurance. great deal for the taxpayers since everyone of them will need a liver transplant by the time they are ready to retire.

[unbiasedtruth]

I see a UAW grievance coming against Chrysler. These employees need a place on the assembly line grounds to drink and smoke pot. And this needs to be a place away from the TV cameras.

Maybe Chrysler can get some more government money to make this happen.

(I’m not advocating this, btw)

[TheBattman]

All behavior that The One fully endorses. Foot - he might have attended their little lunch-break party had they had a line of coke for him and a manwhore like Larry Sinclare for entertainment....

[RabidBartender]

Hahaha!!!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

They just fired a guy where I work because of drug use on the job. I’m surprised they even bothered to check on him because it’s not a union shop and only union members ever screw off on the job /s

[TSgt]

My father-in-law is a die hard Teamster/UAW guy. He recently lost his job after Chrysler shut down an under-performing distributing facility in Michigan where he picked up parts for transfer to Mid-West dealerships.

He often commented how lazy the workers were yet still defends the union though it cost him his job.

Is a lobotomy part of union membership?

[VOA]

In the early 1980s, I met a fellow that had been a Chrysler worker in
Michigan before coming to Oklahoma (a common thing during our oil boom time).

He said that it was very common for senior workers to go to local bars
(while on the clock) to have a few beers and check their stock portfolios.
He said he was irate with this “standard operating procedure”,
but what could one guy do?

[grjr21]

In no way am I condoning this but the worst that can happen is a bad car on the other hand when you get a drunk Democratic Senator you get bad laws

Senator Max Baucus Drunk / Intoxicated on Senate Floor

 

 

[Grunthor]

These are the people that unions protect.

[servantboy777]

Now that’s funny

[Springman]

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?

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

[Stoutcat]

[taildragger]

On the flip side, I got to meet a very diginified African American gent a Ford Retiree a few years back at a Ford Dealership brimming with pride that his kids had good careers @ Ford and his grand-daughter had recently been hired (3rd generation) as an auto engineer after getting her degree. He was a sober as a judge.

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....

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post; ping.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! DRINK BEER! SMOKE POT! GET HIGH! GET PAID!

(sheesh, where do I sign up? /sarcasm)