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Why Elkhart?
Tue Apr 7, 2009
- Later on in the year when you're sucking down your grilled hotdogs, burgers and beers on Labor Day try not to forget why you have that day off. Try also not to forget why you're not mandated to have to work 7 days a week or work 20 hours a day.
Views on auto aid fall On North-South divide
Sat Dec 13, 2008
- The fact of the matter is that the Corker ammendment to the auto bailout bill was designed to fail. The UAW governing body has no authority to agree to cut wages without 100% membership approval, this would take weeks just to organize.
Will Democrats reach the filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate?
Tue Nov 4, 2008
- A clear democratic majority is the only way to start to undo the debacle that has been the past 8 years.
What’s the most important decision on your Election Day ballot?
Tue Nov 4, 2008
- Obama is an intelligent and bright political operative and will surround himself with talent and wisdom, unlike the current administration.

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Manova - please stop drinking the Organized Labor "kook-aid"! You are absolutely right that many of the legal protections today's workers enjoy are the direct result of lobbying efforts of the "unions". But you cannot cite any recent advances for the American work force that the "union" has championed. If "unions" really had the American worker's best interest in mind, they would get out of the day-to-day workplace where they spend 70-90% of their time dealing with inappropriate member behavior on job, and they would focus on pro-active things to improve safety and make workers MORE efficient - not LESS! With all of the money and resources that today's Labor organizations have at their disposal, they should be helping to make the American workforce the fastest, safest, highest quality and most "economical" work force in the world. But they don't. WHY? Because if a plant has 200 people running it today, and they could put out the same product at the same quality standard but with 100 people - the union just lost the dues from 100 people!
As long as greedy humans run organizations (corporations or unions), they will be self-preservation minded idiots. The goal of the early unions was to create a work place where they were no longer needed - when that day came, they were so tied into "organized CRIME" and fat compensation plans that none of them were willing to walk away.
Now is the time for the rank-and-file members to demand that the unions do more to fix the problem (increase member training, negotiate for fewer contract restrictions, and reduce compensation for leaders)!
— Geoff-1080402