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UAW American Axle Strikers Says They're Fighting To Preserve Good-Paying Jobs
« on: March 03, 2008, 08:51:59 PM »
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UAW American Axle Strikers Says They're Fighting To Preserve Good-Paying Jobs
Posted by Omaha Steve on Mon Mar-03-08 08:16 PM


http://www.laborradio.org/node/8042

By Doug Cunningham

The UAW says workers striking American Axle are fighting to preserve good-paying manufacturing jobs. The union says the company continues to make unreasonable and unnecessary demands attacking wages, pensions and health care benefits. UAW workers on the picket lines are fed up with the attacks.

: “They were saying that he has on the table $14 an hour. We make $23.84 plus COLA now. And now corporate America just wants to keep all the money for themselves. When you hear about all the bonuses and stuff that they have, why take a wage cut if they’re still reportin’ so many profits? If they attack the people that make the cars who will buy the cars? If the people that make ‘em can’t afford to buy ‘em, how do they expect the Wal-Marts, the K-Marts, the Super-Mart people to be able to buy the things that we make? …

We’re movin’ more and more towards a Third World way of life, a Third world living standard. And it’s getting worse and worse. The working class right now is in trouble, we in serious trouble.”
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Re: UAW American Axle Strikers Says They're Fighting To Preserve Good-Paying Job
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2008, 09:02:50 PM »
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We’re movin’ more and more towards a Third World way of life, a Third world living standard. And it’s getting worse and worse. The working class right now is in trouble, we in serious trouble.”
"Working Class"="those who didn't see what was happening and didn't go to College."

Hey, life decisions hurt, don't they?
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Re: UAW American Axle Strikers Says They're Fighting To Preserve Good-Paying Jobs
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2008, 06:38:10 AM »
Brilliant plan, running up the operation's costs toward that inevitable 'Magic number' which the accountants already have locked in about when to close the plant and move it to where people will happily work on an assembly line for $14 an hour.  I guess they'll figure it out when the pink slips arrive.

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Re: UAW American Axle Strikers Says They're Fighting To Preserve Good-Paying Jobs
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 06:45:03 AM »
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We’re movin’ more and more towards a Third World way of life, a Third world living standard. And it’s getting worse and worse. The working class right now is in trouble, we in serious trouble.”

And why is the reason for that?  Could it possibly be the fact the Liberals...in their desire to turn us into the next Socialist UtopiaTM...and their whole "we shouldn't be better than Europe" attitude is what is bringing us into a "third world way of life"?
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