Re: OT UNION BUSTING

One of the things that nearly killed finance is "easy credit".

Not a week went by that I didn't get pre-approved credit card offers in the
mail... in my "in-box".. over the telephone. Companies were desparate for me
to borrow their money.. "Take it!!! Please!!!".

I am uncomfortable owing money... many aren't - and they will constantly
borrow enough money to get in trouble.

While finance ius raking in big profits in interest and user fees. it is
upper management and capital investments that are the winners... The
"grunts" in the trenches... clerks, number crunchers, rank and file
employees don't appear to receive staggering wages....

However.... UAW assembly line workers.... their wage/benefit package is
reported to cost the manufacturer over $70 per hour... "Put tab A in slot B
is worth over $70 per hour"? This is nuckin' futs.... Based on this
principal, a packet of McDonalds french fries would be something like $10 if
not more.... but cooking fries is pretty dangerous what with all that hot
oil and the shop steward might shut down production at any time.

A task is only worth a finite value... to unionize in an attempt to make
that task "worth" more will only serve to artificially inflate the cost of
those goods... fuelling inflation along the way.

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On Dec 11, 7:05 pm, Millwright Ron <mw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
UNION BUSTING

Republican Senator Admits Opposition to Auto Bill is All About UNION
BUSTING

Why were Wall Street workers not asked for concessions?
Autoworkers stepped up to the plate to save the car industry. White-
collar workers, on the other hand, weren't expected to do the same
when financial firms went to Congress with hat in hand.

Its all those damn workers fault for trying to get pay raises and
this
crazy thing called "health care.

Millwright Ronwww.unionmillwright.com

It would make no sense to ask financial industry workers to make
concessions. The financial industries problems flow from bad
investments in the trillions of dollars. Cutting pay and benefits in
the millions or even billions would have no effect. By contrast, ALL
of Detroit's problems have to do with its assembly line workers.
First they have nearly destroyed the market for domestic products with
their crappy workmanship and their crappy attitudes, beginning with
the strikes of the Sixties and continuing at least through the mid
Nineties. Economic meltdown or no economic meltdown, the result of
these decades of crap products is that it is difficult to find anyone
under the age of 50 who will even consider a Detroit product. Second,
Detroit's assembly line workers' pay packages and work rules and
benefits put Detroit at a competitive disadvantage. That competitive
disadvantage is sending the industry to the bottom. Modifications to
the pay packages and work rules and benefits can have an effect on
that competitive disadvantage.

Now do you understand why financial workers have not been asked to
make concessions, while Detroit's assembly line workers must make
concessions or else lose their jobs completely? Moreover, your
argument is not against concessions, it is in favor of spreading the
concession mandate more broadly. Or, if I misunderstand you and your
argument is that Detroit assembly line workers should make no further
concessions, then you better start that job search right now.

180 Out

While I don't disagree with you on the points regarding the UAW's
culpability in the automaker's troubles, the rest is simplistic and in
error. Concessions from the financial industry workers is not the major
problem with this ridiculous bailout. What frosts me is that congress is
willing to throw Billions with no strings attached at an industry that
cannot stop living high off the hog. Some of these companies are using
taxpayer money to expand their business, continue to fund executive
pay/bonus packages and hold meetings at exclusive resorts. Congress has
done nothing to curb this except continue to fund these practices. Then
they have the gall to rake the auto industry over the coals and demand
some unspecified new business model in exchange for a few paltry (in
comparison) dollars. I find this totally obscene. For decades the UAW
(and all other unions) have voted for Democrats as the "party of the
working man". As these working men get left behind by congress, maybe
they will rethink their position on politics.

Mike




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