Arkansas Blog

RIGHT ON BROTHER!

The entire raison d'être of privatization was to further the Reagan war on unions. I say anything that thwarts that goal is to be supported by all liberals.

Union now!!! Union forever!!!

Ask the members of the United Auto Workers in Arkansas what the Union has done for them and they will tell you absolutely nothing. Plants have closed in Batesville, Malvern, Melbourne, etc. etc. etc. all with United Auto Workers representaion. UAW took thier dues and they lost thier jobs with thier plants closing all while the UAW Rep. was riding high in his UAW Provided Lincoln with his 100K salalry. Thats the Union business for you. The union boys at the top always come out smelling like a rose, while the poor grunts lose thier job.

Billo,
Wait to see if Waste Management can outsource their lousy paying jobs to China and Mexico. That's the only leverage that GM-Ford have over UAW.

In case you haven't been paying attention American industrialist have found that if they cannot send American jobs to Third World nations they bring the Third World to the U.S. and are quietly converting the U.S. into a Third World Nation unless you have a good gubbermint job or contract.

Were it not for Unions millions of elderly today would be starving and without homes or shelters. But I forget, perhaps you would find joy in that.

Hooray for unions!!!!!
Were it not for our union checks every month we'd be living under a bridge with our
SS checks.
Jazzy,,,IBEW 728

Yeh, I knew several GM empmloyees that were members of the Union. They use to laugh and tell stories about making dog houses, wind chimes, grills, etc. at work on the company time and the Union couldn't do anything to them, "Cause we have a contract". Now they don't have a contract and they don't have jobs. But that old Union Rep. is still driving his Union financed Lincoln and drawing that 100k from those union dues those old boys paid to protect those jobs.

Yeah Bill'o, if only that union rep riding in his Lincoln and cashing his $100K check had not kept cranking out the gas guzzling trucks maybe some of those jobs could've been saved, even the CEO of GM might've kept his job - oh wait he did.

I have an uncle who did 18 years at a unionized GM plant just outside Malvern, AR. He mentioned how their breaks were monitored, how they were expected to get so much done per day. The company was pushing him to lift more material on his lathe cart so he did and ended up disabled. The UAW went to bat for him on his lawsuit. GM detectives followed him around for a year with cameras shooting his every move.
He finally won. So, I don't know where you get the bit about chimes, bar-b-que grills made on the company clock and the other hogwash you spew out.

My former brother-in-law was K.C. area rep for CWA and he was busy day in and out. He took grievance calls all hours of the night from fellow union members. He drove a union-furnished chevy.
In his spare time he sponsored a little league team, and raised money for the school band.
He made $79,000 per year. He truly earned it too.

Still no excuse, the UAW didn't do shit for its works, excpet negotiate them right out of thier jobs.

Got it wrong again Bill-o
The stockholders moved them right out of their jobs, wanted mo money on their investments. Just like the no-union Briggs and Stratton plant in Rolla, MO which closed last year while the company shifted it's engine producing plant to Shen Wang province in China. Mo money for the stockholders. There were no unions around in a Briggs-Stratton plant. High wage earner was making $13.50 hour. In China and Mexico the wages are $2-3 per day. Chinese workers get a free bowl of rice with broth for their 10 hour day.

Won't it be great when half the workers in America are living in workers' dormitories and earning $8 day!! Will Raygun's wonders never cease!

So why screw with the union, if they can't do damn thing either, but take union dues from folks who can't afford it.

Bill-o I noted a shift in your pov. First the unions were doing nothing but negotiating them out of their jobs. Now you admit that unions cannot do anything . Which version will you stick to?

ewood,

either way the unions are worthless as shit!

either way the unions are worthless as . . . Posted by: Billary
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Well, not in our neighborhood - The unions teach the sanitation workers how to discard each dumper in a different manner - flat on its back, tilted on the side, laying on the curb, standing in the street, laying across the curb, occasionally upside down. . .

That can't happen without a lot of effort!