UAW Boss Ron Gettelfinger Threatens the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

From a press conference on 12/12/2008 in Detroit, Michigan

More details here:
http://www.nrtw.org/en/press/2008/12/threatens-national-right-to-work

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• union
• UAW
• Big three
• bailout
• right to work

[Transitiving]

UAW deserves to get their ass kicked by millions of taxpayers.

[dotnetnoob]

You don't deserve shit. All you UAW workers do is beggint the U.S. taxpayers bail out your lazy ass. While the rest of us suffer!

[Phalanx3800]

This is not about how you feel about the benefits of Unions. This is about the rights of people to not be forced into a contract against their will. Unions force people to join them, take their money and use it for politics, and other things that the particular person may or may not agree with.

Why is right to work not accepted? You can have your Unions, just do not force it on someone else against their will. That is the argument. Now, go collect your 60 bucks and hour for tightening a bolt.

[lvll138inrs]

i'm glad i live in america. labor unions in this country have no where near the amount of power as they do in other countries.

[179178]

Hmmm....Roosevelt wasn't very big on public secter unions either....go figure. Typical lefty-do as I say, not as I do. Notice-the great depression didn't go away til HE did

[PappyCaligula]

@bugg255 AND you buy that GM-produced bullshit like it's the truth. Union guys didn't DESIGN the Pinto OR the Vega OR the Chevette. Ford Designers under the gun of BIG THREE bean counters didn't care if you the consumer DIED in one of their ill-produced, fawlty traps. Union guys were the ones who got the information to the governement to crack down atleast in civil court on the Big 3. Heh, Unions are just the answer to the Robber Baron Monopolies of the 1900's,. Checks and balances, that's all.

[PappyCaligula]

@GivathBrenner TELL 'em like it is!. Yea, they benefit from having a union around, they just don't realize it. Come to a backwoods 3rd-world "state" like South Carolina and find out how "Right to Fire" works.."Good Reason, Bad Reason, NO REASON at all" to fire you. Happened to a friend's old man at a grocery store. They fired him after 35 years of loyal service. Just so they could leave him and his wife without a pension. Old man didn't do ANYTHING wrong. Union would've kicked the companies ass!

[PappyCaligula]

@mildot986 Heh, you're the one sounding like the corporate dick blower here dude. What size knee pads do you wear because you must go thru a pair every week.,.,Scabs like you (and you ARE a SCAB) benefit in your company from what we Union supporters fight for. Come to South Carolina and find out the "livin' ain't so easy" with no unions around. That BMW is just as expensive even though dumbass Sandlappers take less money/work under much worse conditions.

[PappyCaligula]

@mack083184

You realize ofcourse that Honda and Toyota pay their US workers MORE than the Unions. Not to keep the Union's out BUT to show appreciation of the HUMAN BEING who is a worker. They treat the worker as an investment. Ford designed the Pinto knowing some people would be burned to death. They lost a 100 million dollar lawsuit. Gov't gives it back to them in a tax-writeoff. GM makes the Corvair knowing it had flaws. Sent hookers to frame Nader. Union not at fault. Greedy Business is!

[032490mf]

Why I buy Toyota. Made in the USA by skilled American non union idiots. Not some put together piece of shit big three union controlled made in China and assembled here junk

[phpimen]

May 2, 1933 - the day Hitler outlawed Unions. Whose side are YOU on?

[masanf]

@ST1300FATHERTIME

I meant "color me surprised". Come on man , I think that is obvious.