UAW To Organize Foreign Automakers - Who Could Be The First To Fall?

UAW To Organize Foreign Automakers -  Who Could Be The First To Fall?

The United Auto Workers has shifted its focus to organizing foreign automakers and is training members for action at the regional level, now that contracts have been secured with Detroit's Big Three.

UAW President Bob King has been clear that his agenda includes organizing Asian and European automakers with plants in the United States. He used an event Monday celebrating the reopening of General Motors Co.'s Spring Hill, Tenn., plant, to tout the merits of collective bargaining in adding jobs.

UAW Vice President Joe Ashton, also in Spring Hill, said the union is moving forward with previously announced plans to organize workers at transplant factories.

The UAW has yet to pick a target. Rather, the union has begun training organizers at the regional level for "informational picketing" at foreign dealerships.

 

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85bmw745i85bmw745i - 11/23/2011 2:13:54 AM
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What rights? The rights to be overpaid while being lazy fat and high on drugs and alcohol? I guess they want everyone in the auto industry to be allowed the right to smoke weed and be drink on the job.


g2okg2ok - 11/22/2011 2:54:34 PM
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Bad management and bad workers equals US Car companies and UAW.
German and Japanese won't put up with this.


gkearns56gkearns56 - 11/22/2011 8:07:43 PM
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If the UAW kronies organize any of the foreign car plants, they WILL forever be scratched off my shopping list. They are a bunch of duma@@. I can say this because my duma@@ (retired) brother worked 32 years for Ford Motor at their Sterling Heights, Michigan plant. I NEVER bought a Ford product even though I could have under his employee plan for family members. Reason: When he made comments "as long as we got our iron out, that's all that matters".

I would say "Really - Whatever happened to Quality is Job 1 slogan". The cheap crappy plastics used on the interiors are terrible; quality control from a bunch of pot smokers, and beer drinking idiots who can't even spell "quality" let allow produce a car that had a little bit (quality) built into it. No thanks to the pot smoking unions.


85bmw745i85bmw745i - 11/23/2011 2:16:44 AM
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I used to service equipment at the GM plant where I live when I was a heavy equipment road mechanic, and let me tell you after being in that plant I will NEVER EVER consider ANY GM product PERIOD!


85bmw745i85bmw745i - 11/23/2011 1:02:18 PM
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No its not a personal "problem" I made good money having my own service truck and met many interesting people. I was on my own, worked at my own pace and didn't have someone breathing down my neck. As long as I got done what needed to be done that day It was good. Most times I would get done quite early. It was very liberating and free. Me and my truck and some music. I got to travel to different places. It was by no means a "problem". Your problem is your narrowness and blind, ignorant devotion to Chrysler, a company that, at best, only makes a couple good cars.


LuvMyLexusLuvMyLexus - 11/23/2011 6:15:36 PM
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Toyota makes the most American cars and that includes parts and labor.

The UAW can eat crap and go to hell on Thanksgiving Day.


LexusLexus - 11/24/2011 4:25:15 AM
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I wonder if the UAW are hiring right now? I would love to get job where I have no degree and make 100+k a year. And if I have degree that mean I will make more if the UAW hire me?

Do the UAW actually work or what?






MeanVulcanMeanVulcan - 11/28/2011 11:36:04 AM
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I've worked as a design engineer performing six-sigma (quality) projects at some of these UAW plants. I could write a book on incompetence and laziness based on what I saw. Quality control sheets faked, processes bypassed for the sake of "easier" assembly, processes completely ignored when floor supervisor is not present (most of the time), workers sleeping and reading newspapers during their "allowed" brakes (ever hear of doing more than what you are asked in order to move AHEAD!?), most workers are not willing to propose improvements even though they have experience because "extra work" is not rewarded. You are not even allowed to talk to union members without permission, much less so during their brakes!!! And these people expect higher pay and increased benefits??? They live in an overpay-and-lazyness balloon, and it is time it bursts... Korean levels of salary and pay come to mind - here is a well developed and industrial country that is way ahead of us in auto production (notice I didn't say auto performance).


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