Record Bonuses Disappoint UAW Workers Claiming They Are Not Big Enough

A grand sense of entitlement, exceeded only by their greed and arrogance. Such is the UAW. The parasite seeks more blood, mere months after its host got a massive blood transfusion (tax-payer paid bailout billions, and shareholder investment billions at IPO, now valued below purchase price and heading south). Perhaps we should add "stupid" to the list of UAW attributes?

Yeah... All the new profits should only go to the rich folks (CEO's and shareholders).

Their point is they took concessions a while back and they want payback with interest. I guess it doesn't matter that no other industry has been able to do so.

Respectfully, oo9, I think someone needs to have a talk with the UAW in plain English, to the effect of...
Dude, you and your cronies managed to keep your jobs with a company that bled to death in bankruptcy, and was resurrected only by the grace and generosity of hundreds of millions of tax-payers, each giving their hard-earned money to you so you could continue to work, never having experienced the bitter hardship of unemployment that one in twelve worker Americans are experiencing at this very moment.

The UAW gives me a sense that they breed discontent rather than fostering more desirable traits, like gratitude and humility for being the recipient of tax-payer charity. Sort of like a pan-handler who gets your donation, and then gets surly because it ain't enough.

To state the obvious, the UAW is wildly out of touch with reality.

I hope this continues to fuel anti-union backlash. Unfortunately that hasn't set in yet here in Madison WI.

This will continue till all Automakers are located in China.

Sportsbike: I agree. My jacka@@ brother is a UAW member. These guys can't do jack without having someone who "specializes" in that department moving their parts' bin or refilling it. I'm just waiting for our misguided blogger UAW_(EX)LAX to tell everyone here why the UAW worker is so deserving of these big bonuses.

I'm so feed up with these UAW unions. Maybe these guys should join those teachers in Wisconsin. All their labor demands will simply increase the price on each car.

Where are those guys that told me last week that I did not know what I was talking about when I said Union employees are paid 45% more than the private sector employee. This is a direct UAW Memo that states that UAW employees gave up $12,000 in anual benefits and perks to stay with GM through the tax payer funded bailout. And now they feel their $4,300 bonus this year was to small. I can not think of to many hourly employees in the private sector that are getting bonuses right now. Where are those guys now when their own guy is talking about how large their benefits and pay packages are?? With out that $12,000 they gave up their benefits and pay packages are so much better than any in the private sector. So Please all you Union supporters, if you add the $12,000 back in like they want can you honestly tell me you are not being paid around double the private sector employee??? These are your guys words and not Fox News like the guys said I was spouting!!

Remember those spoiled brats back in grade school? Now you know what became of them. What a shame.

Don't worry, once all the auto company other big manufactured (if there is any left) move to all the 3rd or developing country, we all can apply for welfare, what bunch jackA###.

They should be thankful that they even have a job, foods to eat, shelter and (for some weed to smoke during lunch break) while so many American are suffering.

correction,

Don't worry, once all the auto company and other big manufactured (if there is any left) move to all the 3rd world or developing country, we all can apply for welfare, what a bunch jackA###.

Its all Obama's fault.

Well I am not seeing a single post on here Blaming Obama except for your Facetious comment. All of our comments were to the point of the Union Cronies remarks in regards to the concesions they have made and how they need all that back. All of the policies they had Grandfathered in that bankrupted GM and Chrysler and that the Tax Payer picked up the tab for. They now they want to bring back those same "Bankrupcy Causing Policies". And even thought most every private sector employee working in the US has taking pay cuts as well as not seen any bonuses, The Crooks are not happy with their $4,300 profit sharing bonuses. Buy the way, how was there any profit in the first place when the US tax payer has not been payed back yet???? Shouldn't we the Tax Payer get bonuses payed to us before the Union gets bonuses??

The Union didn't bankrupt GM. Their crappy cars did that. GM thought that gas guzzling SUVs would take them to the promise land. GMs bosses are more to blame. But most folks would rather blame the workers since our minds are not trained to see the wrong doings that are done by corporations and CEOs. All we see are other workers. So that's who we blame.

Rightnetwork?

That says it all.

Here you Go LexSucks, This one article comes from The Congressional Quartery Press and is a broad outline done in Feb of 2006 detailing how the Definded Pension System is going to collapse if something is not done and the American Tax Payer will be left on the Hook for the bill. That is what all the Americans are mad about, we not in the unions do not get defined pensions yet we are on the hook to pay yours if your system fails. http://www.pensionresearchcouncil.org/pdf/news/7.pdf
Please read all of this and then read all of the articles in 2007 leading up to the GM and Chrysler bankrupcies. Every article, wether Right or Left, defined the $20 Billion shortfall on defined pensions and benefits for contracts that was hampering the companies abilities to remain solvent. I do not think that the large Corporate Pay Packages were right either, but they were not the cause of the bankrupcy. Please provide real facts to back your claims up otherwise!! I can find plenty to back all of the people here and my research can be both Right or Left and it will all support the fact that the Under Funded Difined Benefit Pensions were the single largest burden on GM!!

So dismal sales and old outdated designs had nothing to do with it? Doesn't ford have the same union and pension plans? How come they aren't in the same trouble as GM?

I know that the unions are messed up. But if you think for a second that it’s all because of the Unions why GM almost went bankrupt? Then I have some beachfront property in Iceland to sell you.

The press is pushing the belief that the unions are killing GM because GM can use that negative press to try and kill the unions. It's the corporate interests that have everybody believing that it’s the unions fault.

When will we learn? Unions are messed up, and so are the corporations. But somehow the corporations have figured out how to trick people into believing that its only the unions that are messed up. Sheer genius.

I see plenty of sheeple de-boosting me. Glad I'm not you all.

Can someone answer this?

"Doesn't Ford have the same union and pension plans? How come they aren't in the same trouble as GM?"

This checkmates anyone who says that its all the unions fault that GM almost went bankrupt. Give me a break.

I am not at all disputing that, the real truth of the matter is that both GM and Chrysler as well as all of the Banks that were bailed out should have been left to fail on their own merit. The agenda that was pushed before the American people that these companies were to big to fail and to many jobs would be lost was Bull. You are 100% right in that GM's products, Managment and Massive Discounting that also lead to their demise. Just as you say the Press is trying to trick all the Americans into believing that the Unions are to Blame, the Government spent our money on large Corporate Bailouts with the same form of Propoganda. Only they said "We need to save Jobs so that is why we must bail these Companies out"! What you are reading here and all across the US is the American Peoples Disgust for bailing out top heavy, poorly run groups regardless as to wether they are union or not. The UAW is just as corupt as the corporations we bailed out and they should be allowed to fail if they mismanaged their own pension funds. The US Tax Payer should not be the one that picks up the tab if their fund fails.

I agree. +1000

By the way, I am not deboosting you. I prefer words over negative numbers. Good debate!!!!