Saving the US Auto Industry

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Brianna

if an IEU member (our plant was International Electricians Union) got a speeding ticket in the city the plant was in, a union member went to court for them to get the ticket thrown out. I know you think I'm making this stuff up, but, honey, you couldn't make this stuff up!!

I assume it was a union official that got the ticket squashed, for the member. Good, don't you wish the people you voted for would take care of you?

Oh, from another forum...

I'm laid off again, about the 14th week this year. We just laid off another 250 hourly employees permanently! We now have laid off, permanently, more employees than we currently have working in the plant. We also let go a very good maintenance supervisor, so we could move a supervisor with no maintenance experience to that position, because he has the right friends. Why worry about keeping highly productive, quality people when you need to make sure the popular guy stays?

G.M. top dogs came in to evaluate our progress on our new 010I Duramax Project. This is their way of thinking. We machine our own heads, cranks, rods, and blocks here in Dayton, Ohio. They want us to package them up and ship them to Detroit, so they can have their "experts" inspect our quality. Then they will repackage these parts and ship them back to us for assembly. It is nice to know people actually think my insurance and benefits are what is killing G.M. and not the idiots that throw away ten times that amount of money taking care of their buddies in management.

My plant has had competitive wage and benefits agreements given to them by the union in every contract since before I hired in, yet G.M. has done nothing but waste those savings!

All together now... 85% of all...