Spitting on those who fight and strike for the common man.
Some thought process from the same people who voted for deficit and war. Strong Republican equals anti-union, its the mentality of the shortsighted. To what end? A return of the “peculiar institution”? This is not hyperbole this is the future. You will make no better then slave wages in the not so far future. Think about your children. Where will this go from here? Who do you have to thank for 25 dollars an hour?
Frank, who retired a few years ago from the Nissan plant, approves.
Corker “hit the nail on the head,” he said. “It seems like the United Auto Workers would rather have people lose their jobs than give up a few dollars in hourly pay.”
Different mentality equals let the Union people strike. Let the Union northerners fight the good fight:
Solomon, a native of Baltimore, said that when he first moved here he noticed how much people seemed to resist the idea of unions.
“I’m not sure what it was,” he said. “That’s just not the way they do things here.”
Doubled your pay? Sounds like a selfish anti-tax stance is not very beneficial to the mentally challenged. Speak your mind for you? How about pay your dues for you:
‘Top dollar’
Kathy Ward doubled her pay 27 years ago when she left a purchasing job at a mental health hospital for a purchasing job at the plant. She is now a technician making $24.92 an hour.“Some were wholehearted for the union, I was wholehearted against,” she recalled of the last union vote in 2001. “I don’t need anyone to speak my mind for me. And I certainly don’t want to pay someone to doit for me. The company has been very good to us.”
Indeed, the couple owns a big house — five bedrooms and three baths — on an acre of land about six miles from the plant. The mortgage is paid. They have Nissan vehicles for everyday driving as well as a ’32 Ford and a ’72 Chevelle. They’ve taken a cruise to Nassau, in the Bahamas, and next year, when Kathy retires at 55, they will take one to Alaska.
“To us, $25 an hour is top dollar,” she said, “and I’m very thankful for it.”
Oh, well this is not your problem right? Not yet:
The biggest difference in the labor costs is that the foreign automakers don’t have to pay for legions of retirees — their workers are younger and haven’t received benefits that are as generous, Dziczek said.
So once again self-interest plays into the hands of the plutocracy. Could we possibly, just once, stand with the great Union that is the United States? The Union from which all your benefits flow. Are we naive to wait for that day?
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
