The Big Three traveled to Washington today and did something they are not accustomed to doing...they begged. UAW President, Ron Gettelfinger, was particularly amusing to watch as he squirmed in his chair, something he's had the auto industry doing for years.Gettelfinger has lobbied to get "provisions" for auto workers, all the while sucking the life out of the industry and providing substandard labor. Unfortunately, the UAW is a few decades late in making concessions.
Hard work equals more pay.
This is the only contract that should've been signed. Salary increases should have been given on an individual basis, based on productivity. For decades, blanket increases and bonuses have been awarded to union workers as the quality of their product continued to decline. The one big mistake CEO's made was to allow these absurd contracts to be signed, year after year.
That being said, for the benefit of Michigan, this bailout must come to pass. The state, not just the auto companies, will fail if a bailout is not provided. The government provided a giveaway to Wall Street. The auto companies are only asking for a loan. To deny this request would devastate Americans. So many jobs would be lost that we would finally know what it is to suffer.
Should the Big Three be fortunate enough to be given this loan, the UAW is what really needs to be restructured. Let's face facts, the UAW needs to be eliminated.
6 comments:
Amen to that!! And while they're at it, they should eliminate this insane jobs bank. What a crock!
To see the unions out on strike over the years has just boiled my blood. What many wouldn't give to have a job making half as much money.
Let me be clear on this...I blame the UAW (Ron Gettelfinger and the gang). Union workers are at the mercy of the UAW. They did not make the decisions which led us to the difficulty we see today...they just benefited from it.
What is surreal is to watch our auto executives having to grovel in front of Barney Frank and the rest of the Three (3) Stooges called Congress.
This bailout will fail; the auto’s will not change without market conditions forcing the change.
They don't call it Generous Motors for nothing.
Our auto execs? Unless you work for all three companies they aren't "our" execs. But I do agree with your 3 Stooges comments although they at least were entertaining while the current batch are disgusting.
Dear Conservative Curve
The UAW will never self-correct; the UAW linemen (and women) will have to be replaced with workers.
The 2008 UAW workers are better than the 1980's workers -- the sad part is that (with some exceptions) they remain poor workers.
Tiberius
Tiberius:
If the 2008 UAW workers really wanted to stay empoyed they would do whatever is necessary to keep their jobs. That might even mean allowing Toyota, Nissan and Honda to start using some of the rusting infrastructure to build cars. That's a sure-fire way to make sure you have a job.
Until the worker focus shifts from "what's in it for me" to "how can we make better cars cost effectively" (any brand of car) nothing will change. But if they changed that mindset good things would follow. There has to be a common purpose; without that there is constant bickering around the needs and wants of the individual.
Post a Comment