The salvation of the American Auto industry is "Right to Work."

[Sgt Staples]

Courtesy of the UAW caused bankruptcy which resulted in the $83 billion auto bailout - on which we are already poised to lose more than $40 billion – We the Taxpayers are stuck with 26% stock ownership of General Motors (GM).

Right to work, not being forced to join a union, and or pay dues, will ultimately save these industries and more and more workers are beginning to realize it and are shunning union membership.

Workers are finally starting to realize that all unions do is to cost them their jobs, bankrupt their companies and send industries over seas or to the right to work states like Tennessee, South Carolina etc.


They are dinosaurs, no longer need, have outlived their usefulness and will go extinct.

They capitalism's version of the DO DO Bird.

But this will have to happen first...an actual real bankruptcy and restructuring.


>>>>A New York federal judge may rule imminently on a case that could reverse the General Motors (GM) bailout and send the company back into bankruptcy, according to sources close to the case.<<<

>>>At issue is a backroom deal hatched by GM to fulfill the Obama administration’s demand for a quick bankruptcy, draining the automaker of nearly all of its cash on hand and leaving it in worse shape than it was when it collapsed in 2009.<<<

http://freebeacon.com/bailout-on-the-brink/?print=1

 

[Sgt Staples]

Courtesy of the UAW caused bankruptcy which resulted in the $83 billion auto bailout - on which we are already poised to lose more than $40 billion – We the Taxpayers are stuck with 26% stock ownership of General Motors (GM).

Right to work, not being forced to join a union, and or pay dues, will ultimately save these industries and more and more workers are beginning to realize it and are shunning union membership.

Workers are finally starting to realize that all unions do is to cost them their jobs, bankrupt their companies and send industries over seas or to the right to work states like Tennessee, South Carolina etc.


They are dinosaurs, no longer need, have outlived their usefulness and will go extinct.

They capitalism's version of the DO DO Bird.

But this will have to happen first...an actual real bankruptcy and restructuring.


>>>>A New York federal judge may rule imminently on a case that could reverse the General Motors (GM) bailout and send the company back into bankruptcy, according to sources close to the case.<<<

>>>At issue is a backroom deal hatched by GM to fulfill the Obama administration’s demand for a quick bankruptcy, draining the automaker of nearly all of its cash on hand and leaving it in worse shape than it was when it collapsed in 2009.<<<

http://freebeacon.com/bailout-on-the-brink/?print=1

 

[GordonGecko]

Too bad the law is going to be overturned in court, huh?

http://www.senatedems.com/news/article/analysis-of-flawed-right-to-work-legislation-shows-governor-republican-legislators-had-never-reviewed-language-prior-to-signing-it-into-law

 

[Sgt Staples]

Too bad the law is going to be overturned in court, huh?

According to who? OHHHH, the Senate Democrats. Seems to me they said the same thing about the Wisconsin Legislation.

 

[EatTheRich]

Wages are always lower in states that outlaw the closed shop. That's why they call it "Right to Work for Less." If the auto companies can't turn a profit while dealing with the UAW, they should be nationalized and managed under workers' control.

 

[fairsheet]

Cool thing is....on the year, OUR GM is outselling Staples's Toyota.

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

Scientific classification of Sgt Staples: Raphus cucullatus

 

[fairsheet]

Update - Ford, GM, and Chrysler are ALL showing double-digit sales gains on the year. Toyota is down 1%. VW is down 10%.

 

[fairsheet]

Update - Ford, GM, and Chrysler are ALL showing double-digit sales gains on the year. Toyota is down 1%. VW is down 10%.

Uh-oh....Toyotas and VW's are built in "right to work" states. What's up with that?

 

[jammer]

Sarge you blame generations of autoworkers for the failure of the corporations to fund the pension plans they agreed to and signed contracts saying so. If the heads of these companies didn't agree to the contracts, why did they sign something they had no intention of honoring? Were they lairs all along?

Your so called "right to work" crap has lead to lower wages, the working poor, less benefits, and more people living below the poverty level while still working one or two jobs. Blow it out your piehole.

 

[OldGaffer]

 

[Sgt Staples]

]Sarge you blame generations of autoworkers for the failure of the corporations to fund the pension plans they agreed to and signed contracts saying so. If the heads of these companies didn't agree to the contracts, why did they sign something they had no intention of honoring? Were they lairs all along?

While it's true that the American auto industry negotiating contracts that would eventually spell their death knell, they did it under the duress of the threat of strikes that, if they went on long enough, would put them out of business.

General Motors currently has a 108 billion dollar pension liability that it has no way to pay for. Which means of course that they will most certainly go bankrupt again, the only thing uncertain about that is when.

Your so called "right to work" crap has lead to lower wages, the working poor, less benefits, and more people living below the poverty level while still working one or two jobs. Blow it out your piehole.

Really. we have two non union auto plants here in Tennessee. Both have starting wages in the neighborhood of 17 bucks an hour, full health care benefits, and an employer matching 401 K pension plan. After a couple of years the wage increases to 20 bucks an hour.

The latter system is sustainable, the former system is not. That's probably why the workers at Snap On Tools, the biggest employer in this area ran the union out town when they tried to intimidate them into joining.

We don't much care for communist organizations down here.

 

[GordonGecko]

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Funny how 75 years later....the same type of folks advocate the same things, huh?

 

[OldGaffer]

Funny how 75 years later....the same type of folks advocate the same things, huh?

Yep, you can take it to the bank.

 

[fairsheet]

Both of my morning papers' front pages, ran stories about how Ford, GM, and Chrysler are cutting their traditional 2 week shutdowns in half, AND planning to expand capacity - physical and human.

The top=shitter is working from a 10-year old script.

 

[OldGaffer]

Wingers and Baggers want to bring back the "good old days"

 

[EatTheRich]

UAW workers make $10.73 an hour more on average (median) in wages and benefits than nonunion workers. You say union labor is unsustainable because the drive to compete by squeezing labor costs forces the capitalists to break their union contracts--I say capitalism is unsustainable for that reason.

 

[4/15]

The real problem is Americans do not buy American, they buy cheap foreign crap!

 

[EatTheRich]

Unemployment isn't an American issue. It's a built-in part of the capitalist business cycle and occurs worldwide. Class war isn't an American issue either. The enemies of American auto workers aren't Japanese auto workers, they are American auto company owners.