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stone at the UAW. I can honestly say if it weren't for the UAW and many other unions, most of the folks who post here would be making peon wages and have NO benefits at all other than what the great greedy god employer decided to bestow on their hairy ass ends.
Again, SC Johnson in Racine is a PERFECT example of this - for years American Motors lured their brightest and best away becuase of wages and benefit packages - so what did SC do - they met and bested the UAW package. Who benefitted? Workers and their communities in SE WI. Now, the UAW has lost some of its teeth thru poor (very poor I might add) leadership and what has SC done - reduced pay, benefits, vacations, etc.
So folks, go ahead and trash away at the unions....you just show how uneducated you really are about how this middle class of ours was founded.
Read up on the early years in the auto industry when you're on the throne and then tell me you can't see the parallels in today's economy or what the unions have done for many many people who have never had the priviledge of being a union member. Read how employers (and gee, I think even GM was one of them.....sarcasm) didn't give a crap about the employees and how most men got jobs by bringing illegal booze to the bosses among other things....yep, just like a lot of you boot lickers today...take the boss out for lunch in hopes it makes you look good.....
Go ahead and flame me, I don't care. I have been a union member for over 25 years and am now on the 'other' side of the fence (not by choice) and let me tell you, there isn't a day that goes by that I wouldn't love to be back in the ranks where if I had a grievance it would get fixed....even if it weren't to my liking....something would be done.
Nope, Unions have their faults and one of them is that they aren't in more places.
And to the gentleman who wrote about Patco - our local donated over $10,000 to your strike fund as did many other UAW locals....the main UAW leadership however didn't endorse it and that was wrong - no argument there. But then, the unions lately haven't been any better than the damn politicians we elect either so go figure. Don't fault us all because of a lack of leadership at the top....and feel free to read into that anyway you wish.
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