The unctuous UAW schmucks lied to us.
Noteworthy:
"Just days before Christmas, the UAW let it be known it'll fight any concessions on wages and benefits. 'An undue tax on the workers' is how union boss Ron Gettelfinger described it as the UAW reneged on the deal almost before the ink was dry.
This will go down as one of the most cynical acts of political manipulation ever. The UAW agreed to one thing with President Bush, knowing full well President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats were big recipients of union largesse and would let them slide. They read the situation correctly."
An "undue tax on the workers"!
Yeah, sure.
And the "Hope 'n Change" gang will enable "business as usual" for their trusty pals in Big Labor Inc.
One way to stop the nonsense is to stop buying the overpriced junk with the Union label. Of course the Unions will not care if the auto plants shut down because they will have their money and the workers , well they can eat cake. That's been the union's hidden motto for years now. I saw the evidence of this displayed by the UMWA in Southern Illinois. The core members were asking the Union to work toward better health care and retirement. The Union asked for higher wages. Higher wages mean they get more money from the coal miners who in return will have to "get over it" when it comes to retirement time.
ReplyDeleteUAW is no different, all ruled by the the crime bosses in Chicago, New York and Vegas.
By...Mike Westfall
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to the UAW’s prosperous officers Ron Gettelfinger, General Holiefield, Bob King, Cal Rapson and James Settles …from over 500,000 betrayed UAW retirees.
These union officials call themselves negotiators.
In the few short months of Gettelinger’s depressing tenure how much negotiating skill did it take for them to say yes when they should have said no as they gave back 70 years of hard won worker gains that are now lost forever?
At Solidarity House these union officials promote the Reuther brothers who set the standard for working class Middle America. For a factual look at what the Reuthers actually thought of their bogus brand of unionism consider the second link below. It is the words of Victor Reuther talking about the new age concessionary UAW leadership at the huge 50th anniversary Rally of the UAW in Flint in 1987. I moderated this large historic event and it was sponsored by dozens of top UAW local leaders from across our nation.
Today defenseless UAW retirees are being treated as America’s irrelevant underclass. They have been sold-out by government politicians, corporate leaders and especially these top union officials.
As many of these elderly retirees suffer from cancer and other serious work related health issues related to auto production their “life and death health care benefits” have been labeled as sacrificial legacy costs. They have become negotiable political pawns.
Retirees legally owned their health care benefits until these union officials went to court to attain the ability to negotiate them away. These negotiated benefits were paid for over a working lifetime of worker earnings deferrals and hourly contributions. Union officials refused to vest these negotiated monies and frittered them away into profoundly less important areas.
Just as significant is the glaring facts that UAW negotiated 30-year auto pensions are overwhelmingly unequal. UAW officials refused to keep pensions up with the cost of living Increases over the years, which allowed older retirees pensions to fall dangerously behind. These UAW retirees who have given so much to our nation have become America’s elderly poor and are tapped-out with living costs.
They have also been denied the pension building tools available to today’s retirees and simply cannot afford to buy healthcare on their meager pensions.
It is an American tragedy that these elderly retirees would be targeted and betrayed.
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http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/westfall.htm
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