If You Were In Charge Of The UAW - How Would You Attempt To Rebuild After The VW Defeat?

The United Auto Workers stunning defeat Friday after workers at Volkswagen AG's assembly plant narrowly rejected a bid to create a German-style works council will prompt soul searching by the union and raises difficult questions about what the union needs to do to be successful.

By a narrow 712-626 vote, workers rejected the union after three days of voting this week — a major setback for the UAW that has said its survival depends on organizing foreign auto workers.

Some opponents of the union said the near collapse of Detroit's Big Three automakers in 2008 played a key role in convincing many not to support the UAW.

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MattDarringer - 2/17/2014 9:46:41 AM

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Step 1: Stop giving PAC money from dues to Democrats. Step 2: Union leaders make only the median income of their membership. Step 3: Seek to be an integral part of the process of designing and building excellent American cars. Step 4: Allow new hires to make significantly LESS money so as to make US manufacture economically feasible. Step 5: Repeat #1 until it sinks in.

Workers know the union is in it for the UNION not the workers and the sooner the UAW admits that publicly and does an about face, they deserve to die in fire.

Their head is a mean, intolerant, a$$h0!e. Fire him.

k4site - 2/17/2014 12:53:04 PM

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F the Uaw

Agent009 - 2/17/2014 3:28:18 PM

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I think the whole idea here might not be if they want to go union. They voted no to the UAW.

gkearns56 - 2/17/2014 5:05:20 PM

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I have to snicker because I am so against the UAW. Having a nit-wit brother who worked with the assembly line at Ford's for over 30 years, leaves a bad taste!! He would make near or slightly above 6 figures every year. He moved parts to locations where they needed parts restocked using a Hi-Lo. The workers had to call him because he "specialized" in that to move any parts. Come any HOLIDAY like July 4th, if you worked it you got DOUBLE TIME; if the holiday fell on a weekend you got TRIPLE time.

When he was working he got education benefits for his kids, 100% medical, bonuses for any of the following: seniority, profit sharing and merit pay. He would tell me the cost per vehicle to pay for these benefits was around $600-$800 per vehicle produced. Then they have the gull of go on strike when they're not getting those $8500-$10,000 bonus checks. You only get 4 weeks when you start for vacation ;-| and my brother had about 10 weeks per year at his level not including holidays.

To put a bunch of screws, plastic, glass, rubber on they can all go jump in a lake. I will NEVER buy a vehicle made by the UAW!!!

MicrosoftUser - 2/17/2014 7:03:42 PM

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Unfortunately many unions breed laziness and lets people in many cases do poor, barely adequate work. I worked and was in a union job and I saw and knew a lot of lazy, poor attitude people because of it which they used them their union protect them from doing a good job or do productive one because they attitude was I'm just gonna what is required of them and NO MORE because the union says that all I have to do in their contract which of course creates laziness and poor quality and you wonder why american cars over the many past years suffered from being over priced and undependable cars.