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Big Three hitting the big bottom

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Emory

This article is simply denial of what is wrong with Detroit. There was a time and place for the UAW. That time has come and gone. UAW stands for Hypocrisy with bling and two blind eyes. How many of Detroits suppliers to the UAW are Union? Does anyone believe the union cares about their suppliers who import parts? If they did, all the suppliers would be union and parts made in the USA. Detroit has turned into a joke in the auto industry. Buy Toyota stock. Do you think Detroit can compete? Detroits competition is less labor intense and will stay that way until the UAW is gone, period. Let them fail, restructure with a competitive labor environment and lets get on with it. I would bet Warren Buffet is not afiliated with Detroit simply due to the labor cost. Let the UAW go. Come on into the 2000's and get competitive.
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Happy New Year to the UAW’s prosperous officers Ron Gettelfinger, General Holiefield, Bob King, Cal Rapson and James Settles …from over 500,000 betrayed UAW retirees. These union officials call themselves negotiators. In the few short months of Gettelinger’s depressing tenure how much negotiating skill did it take for them to say yes when they should have said no as they gave back 70 years of hard won worker gains that are now lost forever? At Solidarity House these union officials promote the Reuther brothers who set the standard for working class Middle America. For a factual look at what the Reuthers actually thought of their bogus brand of unionism consider the second link below. It is the words of Victor Reuther talking about the new age concessionary UAW leadership at the huge 50th anniversary Rally of the UAW in Flint in 1987. I moderated this large historic event and it was sponsored by dozens of top UAW local leaders from across our nation. Today defenseless UAW retirees are being treated as America’s irrelevant underclass. They have been sold-out by government politicians, corporate leaders and especially these top union officials. As many of these elderly retirees suffer from cancer and other serious work related health issues related to auto production their “life and death health care benefits” have been labeled as sacrificial legacy costs. They have become negotiable political pawns. Retirees legally owned their health care benefits until these union officials went to court to attain the ability to negotiate them away. These negotiated benefits were paid for over a working lifetime of worker earnings deferrals and hourly contributions. Union officials refused to vest these negotiated monies and frittered them away into profoundly less important areas. Just as significant is the glaring facts that UAW negotiated 30-year auto pensions are overwhelmingly unequal. UAW officials refused to keep pensions up with the cost of living Increases over the years, which allowed older retirees pensions to fall dangerously behind. These UAW retirees who have given so much to our nation have become America’s elderly poor and are tapped-out with living costs. They have also been denied the pension building tools available to today’s retirees and simply cannot afford to buy healthcare on their meager pensions. It is an American tragedy that these elderly retirees would be targeted and betrayed. Share the following links… http://unionreview.com/insights-analysis-uaw-betrays-autoworkers http://westfallmike.tripod.com/Page12.htm http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/08/11/interview-with-whitey-hale/ http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/westfall.htm http://www.speroforum.com/site/print.asp?idarticle=16991 http://michaelwestfall.tripod.com/id6.html http://www.uawndm.org/ndmportal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=157
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