GM Workers on Strike

[1969z280]

What kind of low brow comment is that? I thought this was an intelligent thread discussion.

[Salvatore]

I agree with you Edman. Many good points. As for our Kwizz..... he may be just pickin on me!

[TDW]

Local news says they have an agreement. Strike is over.

[bad1racing]

Hopefully it's over so I can get back to filling peoples needs at our dealership.4 cross-dock parts yesterday,none today.Buying parts out of Indiana,and South Carolina trying to keep them happy.Strikes suck,but I guess thats what they have to do.Never worked for one and hopefully never will.
Kendall

[Keith Tedford]

I didn't see any mention of keeping production in North America. The unions controlling our money/benefits. Someone had better keep a close eye on the money. It always amazes me to see people get ugly when someone makes a decent wage. A little bit of jealousy? I made decent wages for a lot of years. I, like many others, spent it locally and helped everyone around here. I'd hate to see the locally economy without the GM input. The numbers seem to show that the very rich are rapidly getting richer and the rest of us are getting poorer. Thanks to the WTO (Super rich) we are being played off agains the Chinese and others with their 25-50 cents an hour wages. The Canadian Auto Workers Union has been pushing for Fair Trade as opposed to Free Trade. When these countries want to freely sell their products here, but block our products in their market, something is wrong. The next few years are going to be interesting.

[Salvatore]

Keith, You and Schonye say it best. NAFTA, CAFTA ??? Maybe they don't work for us

[Chevy454]

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When these countries want to freely sell their products here, but block our products in their market, something is wrong.

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No doubt...I know I'm just a hillbilly, but that never made sense to me? Seems to me that they depend on *us* more than we depend on *them*, so shouldn't *we* have the leverage? Yet we're letting these podunk countries bend us over??

Funny story I thought of this morning about one of my best friends...this isn't to stereotype or cast the same shadow on *any* union/strike folks, but I chuckled when I thought of it. Anyway, my buddy worked over in West Plains at a factory that machined parts for military vehicles...well, every so often they'd renegotiate their contracts, and each time they'd put it to a vote among the union members to see if they wanted to strike or not. Well, each and every time my buddy and his buddies would vote to strike, because they would still get paid while they were striking, but instead of picketing they'd go cut wood, or go fishing, or just lounge around the house...the funny part of the story is, I think he said they were required to picket like a shift of 1/2 hour each, and of course the day my buddy takes his turn is the day a TV crew shows up, and out of all the hillbillies walking circles the reporter decides to talk to my buddy, who promptly tells 'em he's "enjoying his paid vacation"! Well, his union reps didn't see the humor, and he got a pretty good brow beating, but they were all back to work in a day or 2! I still give him static about him having to be the ugliest or dumbest hillbilly there, because that's who the reporter *always* chooses to interview!

[Belair62]

Union workers usually only receive "strike pay" which is not full salary. The downtown Union officials are the ones who keep their pay. At least thats how it worked up here