Power Of Detroit Emergency Manager Is Scaring the Hell Out Of UAW And Local Union Officials

Hundreds of well-organized demonstrators vowing “civil disobedience” will greet Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s visit to Cobo Hall in Detroit Monday for an economic summit in order to protest Snyder’s selection of a powerful “emergency manager” to save the city of Detroit from bankruptcy.

On Thursday, Snyder appointees on a three-person panel confirmed African-American lawyer Kevyn Orr as the city’s “emergency manager,” a powerful position that gives him authority to restructure the city’s finances and change labor contracts while the all-black elected city council sits on the sidelines. The move, facilitated by Snyder, has sparked charges of racial animus and “anti-democracy” against the governor.

Agent009 - 3/22/2013 12:48:09 PM

+3 Boost

In other words:

"You have proven you can't have it all. Now the unions will play by my rules now or I will break all of your contracts and put in my own".

randy3023 - 3/22/2013 8:04:35 PM

+2 Boost

Perhaps somebody can explain...

HOW did unions go from being a helpful organizations which protecting workers foolhardy bosses and risky ladders to...

CASH COWS???