UAW Pres Hopes Washington Will Help Industry

[mildot986]

10 UAW members combined don't have the IQ of a head of lettuce. UAW members are human waste. Actually human waste has a use, UAW members don't. Ghettofinger is a crybaby cunt.

[RayAir1]

It's not the unions fault for the auto woes. If you believe that, you are an idiot. However, the UAW, which was once strong is now weaker than an Ethiopian with AIDS and American workers across the board, union or non-union will continue to see their way of life get worse and worse as America sinks deeper into the pit of despair and third world status which the global elite want.

[rw5791]

ron smellmyfinger wants obama to step in which means you,the taxpayer,will protect the union jobs.Meanwhile,you,the average american,are out on the cold hard streets competing with hordes of illegals in america and hordes of chinese workers overseas.

[garyowen4ever]

stinkfinger looks more queer than algore.

[critics11]

Hey Ron United Auto Workers Will Unite ,Restructure The United States Of America Under Supervision Of Democrates As Country Need Their Leadership.

[wkwickham]

lol

[2tankyou]

SMART BUS, Detroit, MI. The UAW President is fighting hard to get a racist his job back after he was fired for threatening Obama while using Racial overtones. This guy had also discriminated against a Chaldean American. The UAW has no credibility when it comes to fighting against discrimination and hard working decent people. Copy the link below and paste it to the search bar on youtube's site:

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[camyoung133]

Never trust a guy with a mustache. I wouldn't piss on Ron Gettelfinger if he were on fire.

[ceejcoins]

as long as American workers are forced to compete with Chinese workers because of "free trade" all of us are doomed to become wage slaves of the lowest order. Bush's parting words were to avoid protectionism and isolationism which means that those are exactly the things which would improve conditions for the American worker.

[RayAir1]

Yes, every American worker will be "fucked". Soon in this country $11/hr will be considered a good paying job. Mark my words.

[PabZ2K]

False. Preventing trade would cause prices to skyrocket.

[pigfukker]

Motherfucker the UAW and the little three. Let them fail.  Piss on the bailout and these overpaid bitches!!!!!!!!

[willerdogg]

The UAW is just another business. All they care about is their membership dues. They wash their hands with the "get involved" statement. When you do you get involved a "thats the way it is" answer you reveive. Their skilled trades support is a joke. They are in bed with the companies they negotiate with and receive several "dutch ovens" from the company in return. To say the word "lazy" in a UAW workplace is a very taboo word.

[emforty2]

can the UAW compete with china autoworker earning $1 an hour salary ?

GMs factory in china will start importing vehicles to the USA

[stewie5810]

Of course they can! Labour constitutes 7-10% of the cost of producing an automobile. The average vehicle requires 23 hours of labour. At the quoted $70 per average employee that is about 1600 dollars. How much does a new car sell for? I am by no means pro union. In terms of a competitive advantage, the UAW offers the "Big Three" next to nothing. That being said, the "Big Three" need to change the way they run their business.

[shonniemichael]

hopefully then we will have quality. I go to school with some Useless Auto Workkers (get it) They say buy US but not on this day or that day because they are drunk or whatever and the vehicle may be funked up. Funk that I will buy foreign.

[marceads]

I heard this guy in an auto industry roundtable discussion. Made me sick. UAW members...you better watch it. Your asses are on the line and this idiot is at the wheel. Hearing him talk just made my desire to buy American leave completely. What a sense of entitlement this prick has. As it stands, the only hope for the US auto industry is to shut completely down, and reorganize without the UAW's claws. As Studebaker what happened to them...they closed and all benefits were lost.

[hfl2005]

Fuck the UAW

Union scum

I want the car companies to fail so bad it makes me hard Lets see those gangster union bastards live by the same rules everyone else does for once

Who the fuck do these people think they are?

Why dont you go get some help from your union "brothers" in the baseball players union?

[Catholicboy4life]

Oh lovely, it is so nice to have a rational and civilised debate.

lol

[hfl2005]

Looks like you are in the minority on this one

[Catholicboy4life]

:-P HA!

[Wisconsinpoopmach]

THe UAW president lives in the sewer he likes to ruin the buisness that he works for. He wants people who turn a wrench for a living to make $8,884,744 a yr.

[bestwayusa1]

AMERICANS you did a fine job telling how important it is to buy American products from food to autos from USA companys who make and have higher standards fairer wages for USA workers and must comply with laws of our nation and be held responsible when they dont. Unlike many other nations selling goods in our country. Its time for all of our states to support one another. And not be traitors to some foriegn country lining their pockets and to cause people in the USA to live worst off with less

[hfl2005]

You are deluding yourself

The Japanese make a superior product and their workers are well paid but do not make as much as american workers The american workers are paid so much in wages and benefits they cant compete with the japanese companies As a result the car companies are dying Let them die They are just reaping what they have sewn

[mechmusician]

You fucking liar. You didn't take the deal because it would've force a paycut. I live in Lansing MI. There's been double digit unemployment here for years. Your workers get paid $27 an hour with benefits. I would work for $10 an hour with NO benefits. You're bogarting jobs. You're not allowing competition. Your price floors have knocked Michigan from top of the world to asshole of the country. Your union is responsible for the poverty pains of millions. You should be shot, you communist prick.

[Wisconsinpoopmach]

Unions suck, all they do is whine and complain. I say fire them all and let them go back into the sewer from where they came. THe Auto bailout is just a waste of money. Ford and GM can never compete with non-unionized establishments.

all union people want is free stuff and to destroy the buisness that they work for. good job uaw u screwed the auto industry, yourself, and your country.

[oscar3d]

"our union... with a lot of hard work"

Yes, hard work. The same effort that has led you to be replaced for foreign workers.

Nuff said.

[Jboxton]

Fire those fucking workers. Unions are fucking killing the auto industry! I love this country but our fucking auto industry is being killed by these union cocksuckers who won't allow US auto prices to be competitive with imports

[moham8803]

I agree, UAW = Lazy ass workers. No wonder the Japs are kicking our asses... This is all the UAW fault. They want to sit on there asses all day.......

[informationj]

Bush the rest of the Government just guaranteed one thing: I WILL NEVER, FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE, PURCHASE A PRODUCT OR SERVICE TOUCHED BY CHRYSLER, GM, AND THE UAW.

[roscoe85cj]

Wow, just learned the divorce rate in America is declining at a rapid pace ... SO LETS BAIL OUT THE MONEY-GRUBBING DIVORCE LAWYERS WHO USED TO LIVE HIGH-ON-THE-HOG LIKE THE AUTO WORKERS DO !

[roscoe85cj]

I too worked "union" (Teamsters) many years ago. .. and I've never known a more selfish, self-centered, lazy, overpaid, underworked bunch of cry babies in all my life ! Screw them and the shit they call automobiles,,, I'll never buy another (and if you look in the parking lot at the Union Hall - its obvious that they don't either !)

[papermache2131]

Just watched Bushs bailout deal.........The uaw is done big pay cuts and pension adjustments.Hate to say it but you assholes fucked yourselves.Looks good on you union assholes.Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!

[paulp1021]

There has always been an anti union sentiment amongst the GOP. Republicans by in large have such disdain and contempt for the working class in this country.

[roscoe85cj]

LOL .. you call these pampered fucks "working class" ??? .. I could raise 4 families on what these blue collar (high school grads) make .. they killed the viability of their own industry so they should buck it up and quit their whining and join the real world for a change.

[bestwayusa1]

Many gop Senators and people like them will next want our military to take pay cuts and lose there pensions. Next the police, fireman ect... shame shame on them. Soulless Evildoer fools. They are like sheep to the rich, foolish in thought and mind spineless jellyfish,is what they are.

[whiskers78753]

Fuck the UAW and fuck GM. No to the bailout.

UAW = bunch of lazy motherfuckers.

[informationj]

Liar. No one is going to hire you losers.

[tank1229]

another the so called concessions they made with the new workers hired on at half the pay in 07 how many are still working the line that would be a big fat 0 so dont give me this shit about concessions, job banks greed within the big 3 got you into this mess

[tank1229]

UAW workers get 42 paid days off plus 5 weeks paid vacation what the fuck is going on. Here is the way they wanted it to work UAW BIG 3 to congress, "Give us the fucking money" Congress "what are you going to do with the money" UAW B3 "Dont worry about it just give us the money now or we will make threats about how the worlds coming to a end if the US auto industry goes bankrupt congress passes the bill which was'nt a suprise but the senate told them NOT SO FAST BITCHES

[lordvader5473]

most of them made four times what they should have and can draw social security now anyway. Most of them have two houses and new cars and several hundred thousands in the bank while non UAW workers struggle to feed thier families. I have absolutely no sympathy for them.They are the chosen ones who have earned the right to plunder

for their entitlement because they are special. Many can retire at age forty-eight where most people have no choice but to work into their seventies. fuck them

[beachbums150]

WOW if you recognize the" restructuring mode " then Restructure your wages before its to late ...or drag it down the tubes ...compete for the sake of millions you twit and militant workers ASK YOURSELF THIS ..WHERE ELSE AM I GOING TO GET A JOB..at 1/2 those wages if I lose this one

[informationj]

No one will hire them. Useless socialist scum. Will never buy anything the UAW touches.

[excurrahee]

It's gonna be fun watching all the over paid union thugs out of work after all the work they did for the Obamamessiah. Don't worry. There are plenty of US made cars coming form the non-union plants in the South.

[UAWnPROUD]

hughster41......perhaps you should investigate some details about the parties involved instead of spewing b.s. out of your pie hole. We are fully prepared to take pay cuts and in fact already have during our last contract to fund the retirees "VEBA" health fund. Don't you think that since it is a partnership all parties should workout details to save their futures.....not just one party? No one begged for a stimulus check however, I would bet not any were willingly returned either.

[brainsboy]

Whiskers - Im happy to see americans really know the union workers are a bunch of scum bag beer drinking lazy leeching self centered crap eating neandethals. They caused all this, now they want to keep their job, F%$# them!!!!!!

[m8lowe]

You overpaid losers have been building crappy cars for decades...and didn't give a crap about it, as long as you got your money and benefits. Guess your past has finally caught up with you....u all are going under!

[pig5689]

Don't give these greedy, incompetent fools a red ass cent. GM hasn't had anything good since the muscle car era ended in 1971, same for Chrysler. Ford always had junk, anyway. Let them fold up and burn down and take the UAW with them. The days of overpaid fat cat union reps lobbying, golfing and smoking ten-dollar cigars are over. Greed is what got them in trouble and greed will take them down. Sadly, they'll also pull thousands of honest hourly workers down with them. The UAW is extinct.

[bestwayusa1]

Many gop Senators and people like them will next want our military to take pay cuts and lose there pensions. Next the police, fireman ect... shame shame on them. Soulless Evildoer fools. They are like sheep to the rich, foolish in thought and mind spineless jellyfish,is what they are.

[npinson]

Fuck the UAW

Does anyone else see the entire press conference on CNN on the 12th?

By the way Gettlefinger....Washington is pronounced Wa' shing - ton....not Wor-shing-ten

[grandysfunction]

"BARGAIN TOGETHER, OR BEG ALONE"

[AmericanMale1953]

Compare the "Union's" crap they make to say BMW, Mercedes. LOL! Don't bail the lazy PIGS out!

[AmericanMale1953]

No bailout! I work in Software and I don't get a bailout, I have to perform or else! I make money without sucking on a Union teet! GM and Unions make inferior crap! Be real men and grow a couple you little Cry-babies!

[69slime69]

Remember in 2005 on what gettelfinger did to our marines? G-finger and the UAW acted like babies on a temper tamper. If they cannot support our marines "service members", with more respect, then why should we or congress bail them out. These are the people who put their lives on the line to defend our country so this scum bag can whine and cry. Damn would some one please that F-tard a bottle.

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[bestwayusa1]

People need to support USA goods buy American made goods. Dont have the mind set of the 70s and 80s. That it cool,rebelish, to just not care and buy foriegn goods. Many of our polititians & media would have you believe this, they're in the back pockets of many foriegn companies And just like sheep many people follow them. Dont be a sheep help American workers out be Patriotic buy and look for USA goods in stores and on line We can not wait and be sheep to paid off polititains

[m8lowe]

Uhhh...dude. Most products are made overseas..even "american" cars.

[bestwayusa1]

Gop people are the same type of person that would buy blood diamonds like in the true story movie,Blood diamonds. Next thing they will want to outsourse our military for cheaper soldiers. People like them are the ones against farm aid of the past. They must also love foreign oil because it's cheaper, plus thinks its better to have foreiners working our oil rigs.Dont believe in fair trade as long as she or he can save buck, sell outs. Race to the bottom fools. Dont trust them

[AmericanMale1953]

Right! Buy Non-Union American made items.

[bestwayusa1]

The gop and people like them Next thing they will want our military to take pay cuts and lose there pensions. Next the police, fireman ect... shame shame on them.

[brainsboy]

GM CEO makes 54000$ a Day

NO BAILOUT for GM or their scum bag Union workers.

[UAWnPROUD]

Every employment position has a "worth" pinned to it. This worth is only as much as someone is willing to pay. If you are employed, you yourself have a worth. Why should the GM CEO wages suprise you? How about Senator Shelby's wages...I wonder if he pulls down more than $28/hr? The Big 3 are requesting a loan. Chrysler received one years ago and paid it back with interest under the same sort of economic times.

[tsirtj]

Sorry UAW/Big 3...no loans and no bailout...it as waste of money I don't have. Do me a favor and bite the bullet ...think Chap.11.

[pavlo79]

are you people even listening ?the real threat is Shelby who alredy aided the foreign auto makers In the state of Alabama.. but he refuses to help the American automakers... also the Europeans automaker got help from their goverments same with the Asian and Indians companies...

[makeinstall]

This man is getting 144,00 a year and has the balls to tell a failing industry that GM is NOT in trouble.

The arrogance of the UAW is without limits. If GM closes here the UAW can sit on their overpaid asses wondering what just happened.

And the media hype about the CEO's showing up in private Jets, pissed me off. Why? The CEO's (GM) runs a global operation and is in a jet on a regular basis flying from country to country. And Congress did their usual grandstanding.

[UAWnPROUD]

On numerous blogs people blame the UAW for the bailout issues because of our wages. I can only assume that they make far less in wages and benefits(or lack there of). As a current UAW worker of 16 years, I provide for my family of 4 not living the so called "fat cat" life that you all think. With such negativity against us, I am wondering, how many of you do we support on our blood sucking wages with your own personal Goverment "bailout" each month?

[Dwyight]

UAWnProud ... One of the problems with auto workers pay is that there is the perception that they do not deserve the pay. The perception is that auto workers are uneducated and unskilled. Worse they are litigous and slothful. Furthermore, the traditional view is that union workers produce poor quality products. I do not know if these perceptions are true; however, I do believe that these perceptions lead to resentment when the union salary and benefits are discussed.

[brainsboy]

Nope its all true Dwyight. This is no joke, I used to live in Michigan, and used to pass the plants everyday after 5:00 and saw these workers. They all come out looking like bums, scraggly hair that looks like it hasent been washed in weeks. I have meet a few no offense to the workers but its like the union pulled people out of the ghetto. I know they are not homeless but they look like the beggers you see on street corners. Make a pig rich and you still have a pig

[UAWnPROUD]

I agree with you completely. In the union we take the bad with the good and the good employees who take their job seriously, invest their 30 years seem to get tainted by whatever horror stories have come from those who don't. The automakers as well as the union has a long history that include profitable times and concession times from both parties. There are those I work with that have 4 year degrees and those who don't. It is the financial aspect they trade for to support their families.

[brainsboy]

hehehehe :) Im sure the union has some people with 4 year degrees, probably because they can make more at GM than with their 4 year college degree.

[UAWnPROUD]

Wow brainsboy your name is suiting..........I thought that I just explained that.

[sociablyclussy]

you are a socialist cock sucker !

[UAWnPROUD]

Hey sociablyclussy, I wonder if the Chinese had these same discussions when they bailed out America with the money for the economic stimulus packages......perhaps you returned yours to Bush with the note "I am not a socialist!"

[m8lowe]

Not me. I work for a living. I belong to a union, but, my employer is running out of money, so I do what I can to help save money..so they aren't forced to cut jobs.

[ricochetVendetta]

mccarthy would have got him for this

seriously they dont understand even the fed cant make 1+1 equal 3 forever

[CoC350]

You are being placed into slavery by the congress of the United States! I suggest we ask the Justice Dept. If an atheist minority can rule any of the religons in this country? The constitution clearly protects all religons. I think its wrong for me and you to pay for goverment health insurance. How many of you have a state or Fed. job? I get screwed to pay for it! SHOW ME THAT IN THE CONSTITUTION!

[thomashm9]

If American workers in other industry earn $18 an average for the similar work that UAW does, is it fair to ask them to subsidize GM and UAW workers that earn on average $28/hr?

Gettlefinger is the reason why Big 3 are in the condition that they are in. Hey my Honda is made by Americans!

[thejuice317]

I love it when a UAW worker says your just jealous. YOUR GOD DAM RIGHT IM JEALOUS! I grew up in shit hole flint michigan. And when it came time for me to get a job, there were none, cause you god dam uaw workers chased gm out of michigan. You all should be very proud...

[OUTOFGAS88]

DROP DEAD BIG THREE DROP DEAD UAW you blood sucking motherfuckers.

[bestwayusa1]

The gop. These people are the same type of person that would buy blood diamonds like in the true story movie,Blood diamonds. Next thing they will want to outsourse our military for cheaper soldiers. People like them are the ones against farm aid of the past. They must also love foreign oil because it's cheaper, plus thinks its better to have foreiners working our oil rigs.Dont believe in fair trade as long as she or he can save buck, sell outs. Race to the bottom fools. Dont trust them.

[bestwayusa1]

The gop Next thing they will want our military to take pay cuts and lose there pensions. Next the police, fireman ect... shame shame on them.

[bestwayusa1]

People need to support USA goods buy American made goods. Dont have the mind set of the 70s and 80s. That it cool,rebelish, to just not care and buy foriegn goods. Many of our polititians & media would have you believe this, they're in the back pockets of many foriegn companies And just like sheep many people follow them. Dont be a sheep help American workers out be Patriotic buy and look for USA goods in stores and on line We can not wait and be sheep to paid off polititains

[ZoomBFX]

Sorry Butterfingers

but you helped destroy this great industry.

Now there must be pain and purging in order to fix this mess.

[opAir01]

the first thing the lawmakers ought to do is to get rid of UAW to send message that "fear tactics" wont work here.

[TraderNorton]

This son of a bitch needs a bullet in the head.

[lilmudface]

Our economy is dependent upon the auto industry. If we can bailout wall st. we can bailout the blue collar worker. The amount of money requested is pittance to what wall st. got. I'm sorry if you aren't in a union and don't think they are getting fair wages. If you are against the UAW, you are probably just jealous. Why don't you do something about it and start your own union or fucking join one. Or else stfu!