Pontiac General Motors workers denounce pay cut demands

Workers at the General Motors Truck and Bus plant in Pontiac, Michigan, denounced the pay cuts and concessions which are being demanded by the Obama administration as the condition for government loans to the auto corporations. Over the last three decades, workers in Pontiac have watched factories in their small city shed 30,000 jobs. Today the last remaining plants are threatened with closure as the union and the government join forces to force through massive pay and benefits cuts before the plants close for the last time. The World Socialist Web Site spoke to workers at Pontiac Truck and Bus.

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[supermoto804]

The CEOs have enough money to live 10 life times.

[taledarkside]

sucks seeing this.

hate seeing Pontiac gone, when that was the sporty version of gm.

[SpeedingStudent]

Take a paycut, or GM goes under.

Now, thanks to this attitude, the Pontiac brand is dead.

[cpenter]

The UAW leadership never seems to miss an opportunity to trumpet their willingness to make the workers accept concessions. This is where business unionism ends, completely opposed to the interests of the workers. Nice to hear the woman recall the history of the sit-down strikes, can't really see the likes of Gettelfinger supporting that effort today.