Comments on: How it is Actually Supposed to Work

By: pete in Midland

pete in Midland — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:38:02 +0000

DW … I actually did quit a jib when it looked like they were going to get unionized. I lesarned my lesson many moons ago … while in college I worked on a trucking dock to earn my way … got “chastized” the first day for working too hard.
The union checkoff bill will be the mark of death to US industry … and I’ll be retiring and moving back to Alberta … or wherever the general feeling is as antio-union as I am.

By: dogette

dogette — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:54:23 +0000

OMG I just read the article you’ve linked to in the upper right corner (TODAY). What the hell is wrong with people? Psycho parents who crave attention and are getting it, unfortunately. I can’t believe some child protective agency isn’t all over those assholes.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:54:00 +0000

Oh, and I signed the “list”. Screw Algore.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:48:11 +0000

@pete: You’ve got it exactly right, my friend.

I’ve been fighting an uphill fight against a couple of my lazy coworkers who are trying to unionize our office. (Who would have ever heard of unionizing weather forecasters, for crying out loud??) Anyhoo, it looks like I’ll be unsuccessful, so I’m going to have to find another job because I refuse to pay dues to a union, and Kentucky is not a right-to-work state.

By: Liberty Girl

Liberty Girl — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:33:00 +0000

@Joan of Argghh!: All joined up.

By: Joan of Argghh!

Joan of Argghh! — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:24:50 +0000

LG, don't miss your chance to be on the his list.

By: pete in Midland

pete in Midland — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:57:32 +0000

sorry if this offends anyone … but IMNSHO, unions exist solely to protect the lazy and incompetant (and allow the crooks at the top to make more than the POTUS).
I read a very good review today regarding this situation, and the reason the UAW is fighting so hard to avoid Chapter 11 … they’re trying to protect the most diamond-encrusted 24k gold medical care in the entire world, including our governments.

By: Joan of Argghh!

Joan of Argghh! — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:32:27 +0000

I think it was Barone who was saying that the “bankruptcy” wail was a red herring. It cited the fact that bankruptcy would also free the Big 3 from legislative impositions on their industry, and that Pelosi and Reid don’t want to lose that leverage of their green agenda over the domestic auto makers.

I’m off to make popcorn. Later, I’m going out to hug my Lexus.

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By: jana

jana — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:03 +0000

“Reorganization will pare the weakest dealers while strengthening those who remain”

That’s the problem right there… the UAW exists to protect “the weakest”, and to ensure that they receive as much (or more) benefit as the strongest.

They’ve sucked their relatively small well dry, now the leeches want to open the financial taps with the government, because they see them (actually, us) as a never-ending source of graft.