Earl (09-18-2019)
Trump's America: Profits First!
"The union has been fighting to stop GM from closing auto assembly plants in Ohio and Michigan, and arguing workers deserve higher pay after years of record profits for GM in North America.
GM argues the plant shutdowns are necessary responses to market shifts, and that UAW wages and benefits are expensive compared with competing non-union auto plants in southern U.S. states. In its statement, the automaker said its offer to the union included solutions for the Michigan and Ohio assembly plants currently lacking products.
A person familiar with GM’s offer said that could include producing a future electric vehicle in Detroit.
It could also include turning a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, into an electric vehicle battery plant or going through with the proposed sale of the plant to a group affiliated with electric vehicle start-up Workhorse Group Inc.
A new battery plant could give some UAW workers at Lordstown the chance to remain with GM.
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several Democratic presidential candidates said they backed the UAW, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden and Representative Tim Ryan. "
UAW workers head for picket lines in first national strike against GM since 2007
Buy no GM products until this is resolved. To do so would be unpatriotic and unsupportive of American labor.
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Earl (09-18-2019)
ThatOwlWoman (09-16-2019)
Cant be true, Trump is president.
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LOCK HIM UP!
PoliTalker (09-16-2019)
Didn't Obama save GM?
I mean he abandoned the law to screw bondholders for them
"GM’s offer said that could include producing a future electric vehicle in Detroit."
I don't think 'could include' is very settling language for those facing layoffs and plant closures.
If GM wanted to make commitments for that then that would be a different offer.
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Earl (09-18-2019)
ThatOwlWoman (09-16-2019)
Trump's America: Shafting workers left and right so the rich can get richer. In Trump's world, the rich come first, at the expense of workers...
Coal miners protesting getting laid off with no pay:
Angry about no pay, Kentucky miners block train loaded with coal
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Iolo/Penderyn (09-16-2019)
Dontcha suppose if GM had sales to support additional output they would move to meet that demand ?
Fact is their outlook is shakey.
I thought BO gave the UAW the shares he stole from investors. That would have them striking against themselves.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Gonzomin (09-16-2019)
Callinectes (09-16-2019), nolongertolerant (09-16-2019)
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Iolo/Penderyn (09-16-2019)
nolongertolerant (09-16-2019)
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
When the crash came , unions accepted steep clawbacks to keep the auto companies from going under. Since then, the companies have made huge profits and returned nothing to the workers. If the companies did it, this situation would not have arisen.
PoliTalker (09-16-2019)
Testing out new names for the UAW! Right now, URAW has my vote. United Robot Auto Workers. What say you all? Try to organize THEM, left ‘tards!
“The Communist party must control the guns.”
― Mao Tse-tung
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”-Generally attributed to Uncle Joe Stalin
“Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung
Minister of Truth (09-16-2019)
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Generous union goodies are part of the reason those companies were bailed out. Evidently the unions want to recycle this caca to give them a reason to exist. Those people pay 4% of their medical out of pocket, did you know that? I pay about 20% for my employer plan, and 8% if I use the VA! There are a bunch of other things GM was about to do anyway, but they may dig in now, because this is just a political stunt
“The Communist party must control the guns.”
― Mao Tse-tung
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”-Generally attributed to Uncle Joe Stalin
“Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung
Earl (09-18-2019)
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