Who will defend auto workers if they don't do it themselves?
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In the face of this unprecedented attack, the UAW has continued to maintain its silence. There is little doubt that the union bureaucracy has already agreed to all of the concessions demands involving the wages, benefits and working conditions of the almost 90,000 UAW members at GM and Chrysler. This would be in line with its decades-long policy of labor-management “partnership,” in which the UAW has given up most of the gains won in generations of struggle. The only real concern of the UAW is the tens of billions owed by GM and Chrysler to its retiree health care trust fund, which the union bureaucracy had counted on as a lucrative source of investment revenue to offset the income losses resulting from the loss of two-thirds of its dues-paying membership.
Behind the scenes the union bureaucracy is in intense negotiations with the White House over what it can gain from the carve-up of the auto industry and its collaboration in the brutal exploitation of auto workers. This includes a major ownership stake in the “new” auto companies, whose share values would presumably rise sharply after they dispensed with their pension obligations and other debts and had secured a sweetheart contract from the UAW.
Among those included on Obama’s auto task force is Ron Bloom, a former partner at the Wall Street investment firm Lazard Freres & Co. Bloom has worked for the United Steelworkers bureaucracy since 1996, advising the union as it collaborated with various billionaire asset strippers during the dismantling of the steel industry.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/auto-a16.shtml
No one. The workers are on their own. The sad part is that they have very little options. They can strike, but many won't out of fear of losing what small bit of security (health care, semi decent wage) they have. They have been sold out by everyone, even their own leaders. If all workers, union and non union could pull together for just one week, we could shut this country down. I believe that is what is needed.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
obama will
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April 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
The concerned and caring administrators at the auto companies. And if that doesn't work, Chuck Norris.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm
first thing they need to do is fire the unions / they are the worst money grubbing toilet bugs
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April 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
No one. The working class in America has been construed as lazy and undeserving of living wages.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
The government will give GM to the UAW.
Satisfied?
And then I will never buy another GM product again!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I think a much more appropriate question would be who will protect the american people from the UAW. And what about all of the workers who aren't unionized? Unions are a monopoly and a cancer on american businesses. They're really not much different from government employees, and we all know how productive they are.
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Economist
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
The UAW is as much to blame for everything happening to the auto companies as anyone else.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
No one will defend the American auto maker and its workers. God bless those guys because their on their own and its going to be a looooooooooong road for them
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April 23rd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Yeah, and Obama is looking at a FOREIGN company to take stake in an AMERICAN company. Government has NO business in running private companies. This is a SHAM. ELITIST SHAM. Just because the workers do not have college degrees, doesn't mean they should get paid pennies. My husband lost his steel job ($17 an hour in 1981) when the steel companies were overrun by foreign interests. No government bailouts then. Now, he in once again losing his job because the GM dealership is slated to close under the government deal. He is a finance/sales manager, with no 4yr college degree. His job options are slim.
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THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
The unions are have no problem in muscling companies and workers to do their bidding. They have priced themselves out of business because they no longer exist for the worker but just to put money in the union bosses hands.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
No one. The workers are on their own. The sad part is that they have very little options. They can strike, but many won't out of fear of losing what small bit of security (health care, semi decent wage) they have. They have been sold out by everyone, even their own leaders. If all workers, union and non union could pull together for just one week, we could shut this country down. I believe that is what is needed.
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EDIT: I can't believe some of the insane mis information I see on here.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
you answered your own question, no one is going to defend them from a non-union standpoint…and apparently neither is union management. which begs the question, just exactly what are the benefits of organized labor if labor can't trust or depend on their leaders, their leaders care no more about them than government cares about it's own citizens. just as with the steel industry in this country, the auto industry is now reaping what it sowed. they will have to decide on their own just how willing they are to save their own jobs and livelihood and whether or not there will ever be "a big three" in world competition. this is another example of never depending on others for your own accountable actions. i truly sympathize with all the families and workers involved, but i now wait for their next move.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Ever worked w/in a union in the US?
The Mob will be offering to 'protect' the government if it simply allows the unions and their bosses to disappear because they will not be made unemployed and they won't have to pay anymore taxes!
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
All laborers need to defend the UAW, or be prepared to become like the Chinese Laborers.
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