Do the UAW factory rats now get the cheese?

Or should they line up for bread?Do the UAW factory rats now get the cheese?
You have apparently never had to punch a time clock for a living.The people who make remarks like you or either rich, a business owner, or poor and ignorant of why it is important for labor to have a voice and protections.





In the 1950,s one out of ten jobs were Union today its one out of thirty. I contend our society as a whole has suffered under this demise.The killing of the American dream, began with the undermining of Unions.





If Unions were able to have maintained that strength of the 1950,s we would never have had NAFTA, and all these other job killing so-called free trade agreements.Do the UAW factory rats now get the cheese?
side note: I love that book, ';Who moved My Cheese?';





Anyway, the UAW has a mission statement which preserves a prehistoric, poorly run, unprofitable private corporation. Obama's ';car czar'; is a union supporter. You don't coronate a ';car czar'; for kicks.





The president handed the United Auto Workers, (a rock-ribbed political supporter), a sweetheart ownership deal for pennies on the dollar.





If Obama has no interest in running GM or the car industry, why did he support onerous and expensive social engineering via fuel standards at the time when the auto industry and consumers were suffering most...





If Obama has no interest in running GM, why did his administration bankroll and nationalize the company while perpetuating the myth that it could save it, after nearly every expert on the planet understood its fate was bankruptcy...





If a car made in this country is worthwhile, efficient, comfortable and safe, Americans will buy it. But the very presence of a nationalized UAW-GM undermines a truly competitive car market. Honda and Toyota, which have taken no taxpayer funding, no doubt will find it immensely problematic to compete against a company that can print money and take losses in perpetuity.





Or, I should say, we will be taking losses in perpetuity.
It's pretty clear that GM and Chrysler would not have failed but for the crushing cost of health care for current UAW workers and retirees. It damaged GM and Chrysler's operating margins and prevented it from considering a number of strategic options that might have led to well designed fuel efficient cars years ago.





The central problem that GM and Chrysler could not avoid is the same problem that most businesses cannot avoid, even those that are not nearly as labor intensive as an industrial business, and that is the skyrocketing cost of health care which in this country, unlike all other industrial countries, is provided by employers or paid for by individuals. The prohibitive cost of high quality health care means that businesses have less money to spend on more productive investments in their business enterprises, must compete in the global environment against firms that are not burdened by such costs, and have little to no options to consider, like a public health insurance option, outside of the monolithic American health care insurance oligarchy.





I'm well aware that you just don't get it. You're intellectually limited, and the one or two things that you do know don't work. It's like watching a kid try to pound a square peg into a round hole and thinking that's the way its supposed to work, and then getting a ';neutral'; commentator explain that's the only way it can work if we want to remain true to our free market principles, and, by the way, the problem isn't a problem for people who work hard and those who don't work hard don't deserve decent health insurance as an economic and moral matter, and that usual line of same old same old economic and philosophic crap.





That's why you don't get it. The question is whether people smarter than you, and I admit to setting a low bar in this regard, whether these smarter people who are responsible for leading a country get it. Will they support the thesis that affordable high quality health care is in the nation's best interests, or will they let the private health care industry define the debate for them in ways that will protect their bottom line first and put all other considerations last?





Have a great Rush-free Wednesday my friend!
Only if they can get it from the cow %26amp; produce the product ';cheese';Honda gets subsidy from it's government as Toyota receives money from ours. Our local dealership %26amp; local money last year 2 million while the Chevy dealership received none %26amp; now both are out of business. We made and are capable of making the best car ever made now or in the future. It's the satisfaction of seat belt laws , vanity mirrors, emission control ,mileage requirements , financing restrictions, poor management decisions in being compliant that has caused Chernobyl Listening to the paper pushers say it will be alright. to produce a car without quality steel, more plastic %26amp; a designed obsolesce or the demand for a throw away car.
Hatred is bred by either fear or jealousy. I suspect you are jealous of UAW workers. I know I'd like to make the money/benefits they do, but


more power to 'em. (By the way, mark my words, GM will be gone within 10 years).
Typical ';union'; answer from the first poster -------------Union rule number one -Rule with intimidation and fear Number two----------Don't work to hard now you will make the rest of us look bad Number 3------Act like a big fat idiot
They will soon be lining up for bread. I would never purchase a car made by our govt.
Wages will drop now. They'll find out what their greed did to break the auto companies bank accounts.
Walk into a factory rats bar and spew this bullshit put on some balls I dare you. In reality your balls wouldn't fill a fking shot glass. Then the joke would be on you.