Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Wed May-25-11 12:19 PM
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General Electric to Union Workers: Drop Dead
GE to Unions: Drop Dead
By Alexandra Brown
May 24, 2011
Flush with cash and celebrated at the White House, GE said the company would still seek to double workers' costs for health insurance and eliminate new hires' pensions. Bargaining opened today in New York.
The four-year national contract expires June 19. Contract talks come as GE has cut its U.S. workforce by 20 percent since 2004. The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.
In just 2009-2010 GE closed 27 U.S. locations. The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.
But wait—isn’t this the same GE whose CEO is President Obama’s “jobs czarâ€? In January Jeffrey Immelt was picked to head a presidential council whose goal, Obama said, is to “get the American people back to work.â€
Read the full article at:
http://labornotes.org/2011/05/ge-unions-drop-dead
The DUmmies are suffering with battered wife's syndrome. No matter how much 0bama slaps them around, they'll still support him.
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Wed May-25-11 12:19 PM
Original message
General Electric to Union Workers: Drop Dead
GE to Unions: Drop Dead
By Alexandra Brown
May 24, 2011
Flush with cash and celebrated at the White House, GE said the company would still seek to double workers' costs for health insurance and eliminate new hires' pensions. Bargaining opened today in New York.
The four-year national contract expires June 19. Contract talks come as GE has cut its U.S. workforce by 20 percent since 2004. The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.In just 2009-2010 GE closed 27 U.S. locations. The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.
But wait—isn’t this the same GE whose CEO is President Obama’s “jobs czarâ€? In January Jeffrey Immelt was picked to head a presidential council whose goal, Obama said, is to “get the American people back to work.â€
Read the full article at:
http://labornotes.org/2011/05/ge-unions-drop-dead
The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.Well, according to you people, those evil carbon heavy incandescent bulbs are destroying mother ghia, so what's the problem?
The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.Hmm, I think I see the problem.
#10 Michelle Bachmann anti-environment batshit crazy
And finally, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, fluorescent bulbs "Last up to 10 times longer" than traditional incandescents, "use about one-fourth the energy," "produce 90% less heat, while producing more light per watt," and "save $25 to $45 over the life of the bulb." Which is why the government plans to phase out incandescent bulbs over the next 12 years.
But not so fast! Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has other plans. According to the Associated Press:
"The Minnesota Republican has introduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." The legislation would repeal the national phase-out of conventional incandescent light bulbs.
Bachmann said the government shouldn't tell people what kinds of light bulbs they can use. "
Damn straight! This is America, and while people obviously shouldn't have the freedom to choose to, I dunno, marry someone of their own gender, or smoke marijuana, they have the right - no, the responsibility - to suck down as much electricity as they possibly can. After all, America is the number one consumer of electricity in the world. We're number one! We're number one! But if we stop using incandescent light bulbs, we may soon be overtaken by the Chinese. And if that happens, well, we might as well just surrender to the terrorists.
As a protest against this disgraceful un-American travesty, we hear that Rep. Bachmann intends to fill her car with leaded gasoline and drive to the local hardware store where she will pick up some CFC-producing aerosol cans of lead spray paint in order to redecorate her asbestos-lined office.
The Top 10 will return in two weeks, on April 14. See you then!
-- EarlG
"The Minnesota Republican has introduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." The legislation would repeal the national phase-out of conventional incandescent light bulbs.
Bachmann said the government shouldn't tell people what kinds of light bulbs they can use. "
We've all been on "task forces," we know what happens. Hemmin-and-hawin, posturing, ego-stroking.
I swear she could win on that issue alone.
The DUmmies are suffering with battered wife's syndrome. No matter how much 0bama slaps them around, they'll still support him.