UAW Plans To Assault Asian And German US Operations In 2011
UAW President Bob King said the union intends to launch a campaign in January to organize the U.S. manufacturing plants of Asian and German automakers.
In an exclusive interview, King said the UAW has sent letters to the global CEOs of the automakers with U.S. transplant operations, saying the union wants to organize their plants and cooperate to improve operations.
King declined to say which transplant automaker the UAW would target first or to reveal how the automakers responded to the letter.
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Lexus -
12/22/2010 2:22:08 PM
+16 Boost
Ah...ha...ha...ha... Thank you for the good laugh king = ) ha...ha...ha... He's freaking kidding right? Does he seriously think those automakers are going to let him unionize their company and end up like GM?
ha...ha....ha...
MorePower -
12/22/2010 11:59:27 PM
-8 Boost
GM did not end-up where it is because of unionized workers! GM is in the position where it is because of bad decisions made by the board of directors & management. Unionized workers did not design the cars they build nor made the decision to pursue marketing & selling high profit, gas guzzling large suv instead of building cars that could compete on a world stage.
All of you get off of your all unions are bad high horses. Bad management decisions destroyed GM, not over-priced labor!
85bmw745i -
12/23/2010 11:47:56 PM
+2 Boost
Morepower, I have been to the GM plants, I used to repair their equipment like forklifts, man lifts, ETC. After seeing what I have seen in that plant I will never own a GM product. Workers that are high, people messing up on assembly and just letting it ride down the line, missing parts, parts not installed correctly, and they stress that they don't give a $hit about the car because it isn't their car and not their problem.
uaw_lax -
12/24/2010 4:23:31 AM
-2 Boost
What a lair or equipment is sent out. just stupid to post dumb shyt like this.
gkearns56 -
12/22/2010 2:43:39 PM
+14 Boost
Maybe the UAW kronies also want to negotiate drinking and pot smoking into their contracts. I doubt very much this will every occur. Let's see: unwanted strikes, COLA increases, major health care cost, poor quality vehicles and yes, the demand for pot dispensing machines in the break room. No way!!
HSCenterconsole -
12/22/2010 2:54:35 PM
+11 Boost
After driving GM and Chrysler into the ground, it's time for the UAW to move on to the foreign manufacturers now. Luckily, most of these plants are in the South, where unions have historically had far less traction and sway.
HSCenterconsole -
12/22/2010 3:57:43 PM
+9 Boost
Many of those states are right to work states as well.
knowitall1985 -
12/22/2010 3:21:06 PM
+9 Boost
It's a ploy to destroy your competitors from the inside. Brilliant!!!!!
Whelan -
12/22/2010 3:25:53 PM
+10 Boost
What will be funny is when he tries to push against the companies and they respond by firing all employees except for some management and install fully automatic car building operations. Robots are already in place, it's only a matter of time before the UAW is dissolved as companies trend towards full automation.
He must have gotten very scared when he saw Minority Report.
bfghemicuda -
12/22/2010 5:26:48 PM
+11 Boost
I laugh at how the union uses the word "Organize". This is a Union term for force our way, manipulate, use workers for our gain, etc.
Lexus -
12/22/2010 5:49:21 PM
+12 Boost
Keep that shit up King and than you will scare all the automaker away and when they move to another country and lay off American workers than we really be screw. What else do we as an American make or produce? Not a lot of thing. We use to make everything over here, but now we buy everything oversea.
That is the problem with America now days, everyone think they're entitle to everything. And the UAW wonder why they're are NOT popular with the majority of American people who work their a$$ off to support their family.
It must be really nice just to have a high school diploma and make $100,000 a years. This bad example is really making a lot of American kids dumb. Because the kids said to himself, my uncle or so and so did Not went to college but work for an auto company and make $100,000 without a college degree. Why should I go to college, get the point?? And people wonder why the test score are going down the hill not up.
Steve -
12/22/2010 9:26:27 PM
+12 Boost
I can't wait for these UAW Dinosaurs to go extinct :-(
MorePower -
12/23/2010 12:08:36 AM
-6 Boost
Good luck UAW, you're going to need it. In this economy, do you people are going to willing to risk their jobs to join an organization that many think, wrongfully, was a contributing factor to GM & Chrysler's downfall.
For the record, GM's downfall was due to horrible management decisions and Chrysler's was "merging" with MB.
gkearns56 -
12/23/2010 7:50:05 AM
+9 Boost
I believe there is plenty of blame to sprinkle around. It wasn't "all" management's decision that caused these companies to fail. When you have to pay UAW retirees large chunks of money to buy them out, or pay for their contract demands,regular COLA increases and outrageous health care coverage, this doesn't all fall in the laps of management. My dum-a$$ brother (yeah - I called him that), would always tell us, "As long as I get my iron out". I'd reply to him, "no wonder nobody wants to buy the junk you're putting out". I haven't bought a UAW built car in 32 years because of his dinosaur UAW mentality. He would tell me if there was a bin of parts needed, and it was 20 feet away, they'd have to get someone who "specialized" in moving those parts to his station.
I'd laugh and say so they called in the person with a high school diploma to get on the high-low, in order to move the parts you needed. I have absolutely no sympathy for these UAW workers who will eventually make outrageous demands from the company. We're better off without them.
Spectator -
12/23/2010 11:07:07 AM
+5 Boost
There is another goal for King, other than money(even though it all is about money) for him to do this.
With the laying off and downsizing of Union jobs up North, what King is attempting to do with the Unionization the workforce of the south is to create a gateway...therefore creating a legal loophole allowing him to tranplant his constituants that have been laid off in the North to the Southern states.
Under the current administration a Unionized workforce is looked at very favorably. Which would in effect force every worker to accept being a Union employee or lose their job to a transplanted Yankee. Its a Win Win for the Union no mater what...and a possible Lose Lose to all southern workers who did good work and liked the companies they work for.
The sad thing is as rediculous as this sounds, this could end up happening. Well if the automanufactures can hold out 2 more years this might not happen.
delan -
12/23/2010 5:02:29 PM
+4 Boost
"King said ...... the union wants to organize their plants and cooperate to improve operations"
Oh, because you know their factories are worse than the fiery pits of hell I tell you. If nothing else, we all got a good laugh.
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