UAW Rally For Jobs

Martha Grevatt, a Trustee in the UAW, who works at the recently shut down Auto Plant in Twinsburg, speaks.

Adam Gluntz, of the Cleveland Bail Out The People Movement speaks at well about the crisis of capitalism.

This rally was held outside the Twinsburg Chrysler Plant after the company shut it down.

http://www.workers.org
http://www.bailoutpeople.org
http://www.fistyouth.org

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[EasyEs]

The idea that American companies are tapping into a huge market of 10 yr old's is false.

No one has a worse record on the environment then socialist countries..No one.. and for workers for that matter..

America is doing fine in the export department as I previously stated...

[Pbirv]

"Jobs are leaving states that are over regulated over taxed and in my honest opinion hostile to business in general"

They're moving to countries where they can get 5-10 year old kids to work for less than $1 a day and where labor and environmental protections are pretty much nonexistent, so they can dump their toxic wastes right into the water and spelch it into the air with virtual impunity. Yeah, they bring jobs to those places, but the water's unsafe to drink & the air's unfit to breathe.

[Pbirv]

'it doesn't force people to work hours they don't choose to '

It does in China, Thailand, Bangladesh, etc- not only are weekends and holidays off unheard of there, but if a worker even has to take 1 hour off for ANY reason, however valid, they're required to financially reimburse the company for every minute they took off.

[EasyEs]

You do realize you have no clue what capitalism is. it doesn't force people to work hours they don't choose too. Just because people worked 12-18hr work days 120 years ago doesn't mean we will revert back to it. People worked 18 hr days on the farm as well and unions didn't save them from long days. Technology and innovation did.

Unions did play a good role in getting workers better conditions but so did innovation driven by capitalism.

[EasyEs]

No you don't hear about it because you don't live in Japan, and it isn't the case always. They expand to American because their business are expanding to North America.

No profits from companies like Honda go into the pockets of shareholders. CEO pay is a very small component of expenses.

Jobs are leaving states that are over regulated over taxed and in my honest opinion hostile to business in general. I have one I will never open up in some Marxist haven.

[Pbirv]

"what a dead end socialism is... "

So you'd rather have pure laissez-faire capitalism- 12-18 hour workdays, 7 days a week in hazardous conditions with no safety protections, for less than half the cost of living indoors with dignity- as opposed to sleeping on the shop floor or in a company dorm or a 1 room apartment or trailer with 10-30 other people or in a tin/cardboard shack, child labor, if you're hurt or killed on the job, tough shit, to your family, more of the same.....?

[Pbirv]

One big difference is I haven't heard about Japan closing plants there to open plants here. When we export jobs, it usually means that Americans become unemployed as their jobs get exported. Plus the profits from overseas plants usually go into offshore banks so the CEO can dodge taxes . And every manufacturing/ high tech job that leaves the US takes its tax base with it- less money for roads, schools, etc. Sorry, but working at McDonald's and/or WalMart is no substitute for a job at GM.

[EasyEs]

Okay so Honda can export jobs to America and the net gain is for Japan..but when America exports jobs to other nations the net gain is not for America? Please help me with your fuzzy math on this one.

I feel for you man I do, I grew up in Nova Scotia (poor!)...but I know what a dead end socialism is...

[EasyEs]

European nations play fast and lose with their employment figures much more then the USA does. Everyone knows that real unemployment is around 15 or 20% in the USA and Canada right now and 20-30% in France Spain Germany etc.

Second there are literal thousands of types of jobs outside the manufacturing sector that can be outsourced and many manufacturing jobs that are for practical purposes only viable in the USA. Labor cost is a small part of it.

[Pbirv]

The day unions are gone and employers have no fear of or worry about workers organizing, you can kiss having weekends and holidays off goodbye, along with paid vacation, maternity leave, safety protections, workmen's comp, etc, while your workweek is extended to 60-90+ a week and your pay is cut drastically.

Without unions, we'll basically end up like China or Thailand, where workers have no rights or protections. Unions fought for every protection and benefit that workers currently enjoy.