UAW Promises To Brand Foreign Automakers That Don't Unionize As Human Rights Violators

This guy is nuts!

@ Agent009: Notice their T-Shirts say: "Organize, Build Power & Win Justice". Can we please have a blog about renaming what their T-Shirts should REALLY say in this UAW picture.

Please tell me this is a joke!!

I wish I could demand that people who didn't pay me money were violating human rights.

They really voted in a hard core leader. The sad thing is that the companies he is targeting do have unions.. Just not in the US.

"They really voted in a hard core leader. The sad thing is that the companies he is targeting do have unions.. Just not in the US."

With that being said what cant these car companies give the same rights and wages to working Americans as they do to the workers in their home market?

They do! They have the right to vote in a union if they so choose. They always have had the right, but they haven't chosen to do so up to this point. The union leader only cares because he wants a cut of the money he's not currently getting from those workers.

Not true. This is what King is asking for, the right for the workers to decide for themselves without suppression or persecution no matter the outcome.

UAW- Can't you see this is blackmail? "You do what I say or I will ruin your reputation whether it is true or not"

I hope you can at least see that.

Most non unionized employees of Honda and Toyota already get paid the same(or better) than UAW employees....why would they want union representation. And yes these companies are against unions...who wants to be held hostage like the big three have in the past?

I'm not happy to hear this. Obviously the UAW is anti business. One rule should be put in place. That there should simply be a rule that says either "all" automakers in the US (including transplants) must hire 100% UAW workers or no UAW workers at all. There should not be a situation where one car company is saddled with UAW an another not. Further I don't beleive there should be separate agreements with the UAW and individual automakers. What ever agreement that is made should stand for all automakers in the US at the same rate or none at all.There can no longer be this inequality. Personally I think the UAW should just go away. But if it is here to stay then it should be Federal law that requires the UAW to have the exact same agreement with "All" automakers doing business on US soil.

What does this thread have to do with Obama? Some people will bash and blame Obama for everything, even if the subject isn't about Obama. You "fear"? That explains everything. Why do you "fear"?

last I checked this is a free market economy. No one should be forced to do ANYTHING. THose that choose the UAW can have it (I'm not sure if this has really EVER happened. I worked for auto companies and I know there is pressure to join the Unions. I never, adn will never join). If foreign company workers choose not to join the UAW, it is criminal to brand them human rights violators, after all, they are CHOOSING to not join. So explain to me Mr King how this violates ANYTHING?

What does the UAW have to offer? the destruction of Detroit, drunken and drugged workers? overblown tax-payer bailed-out pension plans?... its not like you even DESERVE the benefits. Most cars coming out of Detroit have underperformed for DECADES!!!!

Lexsucks, watch what you write.... by the same token, what does Obama have to do with fear? some people will defend Obama by calling the fear card!

MeanVulcan,

I didn't associate fear with Obama, Sportsbike80 did.

Sportsbike80 said: "I fear Obama is going to lead the UAW charge and unionize all car makers, hospitals, teachers, McDonalds employees, and Janitor at Walmart."

All I did was ask him why does he fear.

I fail to get your point. Or the point you were making doesn't apply to what I said.

"free market economy"

- An Oxymoronic term. The only thing free about a free economy, is the freedom that corporations have, to increase their bottom line by gutting the middle class.

Sportsbike, Obama may be pro union, but I don't think its in his plan to unionize all labor. He has not made any mention of it during his campaign and in any of his SOTU addresses. Plus it would be his political death knell....and if you're watching closely, he tries to lead from the center.

Wow...and I thought Gettlefinger was a moron. King is just a lunatic. Way to pick your leaders UAW.

Give me money or I will blackmail you. Great plan UAW. They'll just move the factories to China.

Unions are dying and all that help from dems is not going to save them.
They are dinosaurs,the quicker they disappear the quicker the economy gets stronger.
Godd riddance to all the unions.....

Crazy unions. One of the reasons I purchased my car is because it was not produced in a union factory. I'm not giving any of my money to support union officials and their ways.

The dude's glasses, haircut and wardrobe count as human rights violations. Then he opens his mouth and it gets worse.

The Unions are just as corrupt as the Corporations.

The thread is about the UAW's President Bob King. But somehow, some retards found a way to bring Obama into the conversation. What a bunch of losers.

That video still doesn't have anything to do with the subject of this thread. This thread is about Bob King and the UAW. I'm not sure how you can confuse Obama with Bob King and the UAW?

Ohh I get it now. Obama is working with Bob King to unionize all of America? Not sure how you came to that conclusion, but I've heard crazier.

Again - "predicatable" uaw_(ex)lax on a UAW blog topic. And again many negative responses. Are you a present or fomer UAW FACTORY worker?

Their T-Shirts say: "Organize, Build Power & Win Justice"

I think they should swap those T-Shirts for: "Will Strike; Smoke Pot & Drink on Lunch".

Lead by example

Is it me or does this guy look like woody allen?

Are we still listening to the UAW? It's not like they really helped keep the car companies in business, they were some of the main causes forcing the car companies to take the bailouts.

Big deal UAW, GM tried to market itself in the 80's & 90's as building reliable transportation that was stylish and a true competitor to Japanese & European brands.

Marketing means nothing if consumers do not buy the message.

UAW=Terrorists

Ugh, autoworkers earn $40/hour average (per GM) and another $30/hour in health/pension benefits - for assembling a freakin' car? Geeeze. No wonder they love their unions, so uncompetitive.

German, French, and Canadian health costs are borne by the goverment. Lots of our labor cost disadvantage comes from the world's most expensive health care system, a system entirely divorced from the "free market," but maintained by tax law and absurd insurance regulations.

Is that "Cedric The Entertainer" in that pic?

Ced?? THAT is funny!!! And King if he does not get his way, could just leave a horse's head under their sheets to drive home the point!!

I don't care which way you like it, a single country cannot have a two-tiered labor market and compete in the world-wide market.