Ain't No Party, Like A Detroit Auto Worker Lunchtime Party-Union Workers Caught Drinking And Smoking Pot DAILY!

Why is that guy going to a party store so much?
Don't they sell booze at gas stations in Michigan?

No excuse. The UAW should have been eliminated or their contract modified as part of the bailout to disallow this.

We need more of this.

We need more bailouts for huge, faltering enterprises, where tax-payers' hard-earned income is redirected to keep dinosaur corporations on life-support, and to give their executives fat bonuses.

We need more labor unions, to ensure that American workers can take in as much money as they can extort by proxy, rather than earning what a free market dictates, or having to better themselves and learn new skills as the world around them changes; Even if this means producing shoddy products, or ones that can't compete against others in a global market, or ones whose profit margins are too thin to be sustainable due to high domestic labor costs.

We need more and stronger government to protect our working classes; To guarantee them a livelihood, and to be obligated to provide them with the necessities of life.

We need to close our borders to prevent products that are less expensive, and with fewer defects, from being sold here, as they threaten The State's ability to keep our own workers employed. Failing that, we should charge high tariffs on those products, not to punish the more creative, productive, or efficient, but rather, to defend our laborers' way of life.

Eventually, when things get so bad that we believe they can't get any worse, we will make changes. We'll toss out labor unions, and workers will find employment based on their own merits and market conditions. Some of us may even discover that if we change our thinking, we can become entrepreneurs and possibly make our own fortunes, rather than being laborers, working for others. The dinosaurs will die out, as is the natural order of things, and those small furry mammals will evolve into a wiser, more capable, dominant species.

But until that day comes, get used to what is. We are still on the downward slope as GM pats themselves on the back for their amazing recovery.

Will we or will we not see our fool UAW_(Ex)LAX blogger. He's a turd who will have some spin on this. We'll hear: "The UAW worker builds a better car than Foreign auto companies because......". No wonder I haven't bought a UAW made product in years. Must be their new quality control policies.

Steve : very smart Steve..As Darwin would say : Natural Selection. the survival of the most suited...ha ha....but in the process USA will be replaced for other countries as leader of the world. I Guess China or India or several other coutries as Korea, Sigapur, Japan, Malasia, China.
for now the only one thing that makes USA competitive is: Weapons.

Yonder7, it is perfectly natural for a nation to "pass the torch" of world leadership to another, though possibly reluctantly. Prior to the US, the United Kingdom was the industrial powerhouse and colonial dominating force, world-wide. The sun never set on the British Empire. With the death of colonialism, the UK took a back seat to Ameica's mass-production machine during the Automotive Era.

Now, in the Information Age, where manufacturing is handed over to those who can do it for lower cost and "reasonable quality," America is having to rethink how it does business. Some parts, some based on brain power and ingenuity, are ahead of the curve. Apple Computer, for example, owns a tiny computing market share (<5%), but has taken the cell phone world by surprise with their design and software (though manufacturing is done in the Far East). Their cash reserves, in the billions, exceed Microsoft's! Not bad for tiny Apple.

The American auto sector, once the engine that powered America, is now hurting big time, for the most part.

Just as a data point, there is no union in Apple's design department, or amongst their software jockeys. Ditto with Oracle, and Google. No executive or manager in his right mind wakes up one day and says, "I need to be more cost-effective against competition, domestic and aboad; I need my workers to be more productive; I want higher product quality; I want to increase customer value... I need to get this place unionized!"

I am really curious to see what UAW_LAX has to say about this. There's really no way to spin this around.

They are Idiots. I'm not really surprised.

i work at Nissan and if you think people don't do the same thing their you are obviously just a idiot.all cars are made by very hard working people,foreign and domestic cars.get off you're lazy big mouthed asses and go on an assembly line,that should shut you're us chamber of commerce loving asses up.

@metalgod82. This happens to be a bailout company. Thats why. I'm sure they are doing the same thing at Nissan and probably every other company like you say. These are grown men that choose to get high and drink beer on lunch break at a drug free work place. They are idiots no matter how you look at it. Lucky they got suspended with no pay instead of getting hurt at work and placing the blame on someone else. All the while being protected by the Union.

Interesting that in her avatar photo, agent001 is quaffing a oold one (not on anyone's dime I assume). I think I would have changed that before hand lest I come off sounding mildly hypocritical. OK, more to the point, I think we need to keep this in perspective. I believe the majority of workers at Chrysler are straight ahead hard working individuals. If it turned out to be a case where it was revealed to be happening at multiple plants all the time then that would be a story.
For me this is simply an opportunistic and unfortunate instance of bad behavior too delicious for the FOX 'newshounds' to pass up, and certainly an opportunity for those who drool over their keyboards at the opportunity to kick yet more dirt at the domestic auto-industry to pass up.
Thing is, a quick drag on the dutchie or a quick shot o' spirits is endemic from the highest political office to your favorite sports figure to the guy out on the street and multiple points in between. As such use the same solution: get rid of the rot and avoid tarring everyone with the same brush -- lest we forget it was a fellow union worker who originally blew the whistle on this bunch of louts so the anti-union blather really doesn't vut it either.
By the way its been done before: http://www.mackinac.org/10206 (and this was but a second on Google. I'm sure there's more.

I have seen the same behavior in every big company that I have ever worked. Nothing unique to Chrysler or the automotive industry.

Just ask anyone who's ever worked at Boeing. Yep. Its best to assume that all of those 747 rivets were done before lunch - otherwise you'd never get on an airplane.

the point is not the quality of the product since every component gets tested before it goes out the door, sure it would mean more rework given the poor initial quality.... the point is ANYONE at any DECENT job working for any decent company would get fired instantly if caught smoking pot during work hours, and probably reprimanded if drinking any alcohol as well. So why should these union people be any different, SPECIALLY considering the fact that Chrysler owes part of their poor quality to them, and they were extended BAILOUT tax money from US.

This happens everywhere: schools, court, offices, stores, hospitals, boardrooms, everywhere!

This is a non-story that is focusing on the autoworker's union and the car companies to cause non-warranted outrage. Nowhere did they mention the size of the shift that those workers belonged to, where they worked or if the amount of people who did this was greater than the three to five groups of people that were doing this.

Wake up people! On this planet, there are those people who are called "functioning alcoholics". They exist in every level of our society and in every culture. Would we be having this conversation about drinking on the job 40 - 50 years ago, . . . probably not!

"This happens everywhere: schools, court, offices, stores, hospitals, boardrooms, everywhere!"

I can't recall the last time I saw a bunch of teachers judges or doctors openly getting high in the parking lot, can you?

These idiots should be fired.

Just because it does not appear on the news or even Fox news, does not mean that it does not happen! Whether it's a bus driver reading his kindle while on the job, construction workers buying cases of beer before work, cops stopping by cop bars while on duty, this happens every day, in every culture on the planet!

I rather see a bunch of guys getting drunk at work and building cars than a politician selling out his/her constituents for pharmaceutical, investment, or other campaign contributions. Pick you battles people!

To answer your question, I have been to restaurants where groups of teachers, doctors or cops have been drinking on the job during lunch.

What's worse, a tall boy or two Goose tonics?

I am in no way sanctioning this behavior! Controlled substances, heavy machinery, and precision do not mix. These men are grown adults and should suffer the consequences if caught intoxicated on the job.

My point is that this type of behavior is widespread and effects all industries: blue or red and regardless of receiving government funding/bailout or not.

Why doesn't Fox News do an expose on investment bankers, corporate lobbyiest, etc. and their drinking habits during lunch?

Is that uaw_lax I see in that video????????

I cannot believe management would be so incompetent as to agree to any contract that they cannot fire someone for complete misconduct. Management should be fired. As for these fools obviously they should be fired. As to whether we should have our workers compete with China for China wages, I don't think so. Germany certainly seems to do ok with good wages, great healthcare, great retirement etc... Why some people want others to be worse off is beyond me. With that attitude the country is surely headed towards 3rd world status.

No need for any comments. The picture speaks a thousand words. UAW is obsolete.

Hey "sportsbike80" - Our bloggers said he worked for Nissan. That's a lie. Reason: Nissan does't have a union in their "transplant" factory. The USA Today paper ran a story during the summer listing where EVERY model is made; what percentage of American made parts to Foreign parts are in each vehicle; where it's built and if they had a UAW union in the plant. I found that very interesting so I cut that out the article from the USA Today paper I had. Nissan does NOT have a union in their plant here. Some of these UAW fools actually had enough nerve to say, "We were on our own lunch hour and nobody should care what we do on our own time".

Listen up you UAW dum$%*, what don't you get. I can't remember the last company that incorporated/approved drinking and smoking pot as part of their company policies/handbook, especially when you are going BACK to work. UAW fans: You ever here of Drug Free company environment. They shows how ignorant UAW members are. I'd cut their pay to minimum wage.

metalgod never actually said he was part of the uaw. I think his point was that even non uaw plants can still have dead beat employees.

Rednecks,lol When I logged 17 years ago in northern BC I was the only person not stoned, they were stoned daily, even my boss, the working conditions were very dangerous... As far as these stoned employees are concerned, they should be given a chance for now and take some kind of drug course and agree to regular drug tests to keep there jobs.

Lets follow the CEO's of the banks that got billions around with and see how much powder they put in their nose. This is stupid why do you think Mexico drug lords are killing each over over this crap? America has a huge drug problem just singling out the UAW is stupid and pointless.