[N8 v2.0]

...besides forcing US auto companies to pay some slugo $50/hr to put lug nuts on an inferiorly built American automobile....


http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0503/13/C01-115531.htm

 

[fluff]

I like this bit:

"You either support the Marines or you don't," said Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge, commanding officer of the battalion's active duty instructors.

No doubt heavily laden with irony?

N8 why do you see criticising Bush as unpatriotic but driving a foreign vehicle not so?

Clearly the UAW are utterly evil:

The dispute arises as the UAW, using laid-off workers for labor, is building a $300,000 home for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The home in Eaton Rapids will operate a residential program for children of veterans who don't have parents, or whose parents can't care for them.

 

[Westy]

I spent 5 years travelling around to different auto plants working on CNC machines. There are 2 plants I've been to where I would say the union did good things. They would meet with management and work with them to make things more efficient and the shop formen would walk around and smack people up side the head for lazing around. The rest of the places I went to forced me to the conclusion that the UAW is just organized crime.

Somewhat lucky for manufacturing in the US, Japanese auto companies have had success in building autos in the US with non-union labour. The Toyota plant in Kentucky is the most impressive facility I have ever been to.

I had to park my GTI in a UAW plant's lot once. I started getting hassled by people until I told them my company car, a Chevy Astrovan, wouldn't start that morning.

 

[Changleen]

I like this bit:

"You either support the Marines or you don't," said Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge, commanding officer of the battalion's active duty instructors.

No doubt heavily laden with irony?

N8 why do you see criticising Bush as unpatriotic but driving a foreign vehicle not so?

Clearly the UAW are utterly evil:

The dispute arises as the UAW, using laid-off workers for labor, is building a $300,000 home for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The home in Eaton Rapids will operate a residential program for children of veterans who don't have parents, or whose parents can't care for them.

Didn't you get the Memo Fluff? Things must be viewed in black and white ONLY these days. If you attempt to confuse the situation by introducing non-absolutes you can be sent to Gitmo. It's a special brain saving policy introduced by Bush et al. - You simply listen to what TV says is good and evil, accept it without question and then you have freed up your poor overworked brain to concentrate on more important things like Brad and Jen's marriage, your issues with that guy in the thing, you know?, and tying your shoelaces.

 

[mack]

I had to park my GTI in a UAW plant's lot once. I started getting hassled by people until I told them my company car, a Chevy Astrovan, wouldn't start that morning.

Haha, no surprise there. American Cars are crap.



At least our unions arent as bad as Canada's. Although they are getting there. Man, if i were a marine i would drive a toyota TRD right through the lot with Bush Stickers all over it just for kicks.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

wait, am not pro-union, but i notice something here.... regardless of the fact that UAW policy is ludicrous in this case....

for some people seems that union coercion is bad.... and corporate coection is fine??

 

[N8 v2.0]

You just can't buy this kinda publicity....

UPDATE:

IN A MINUTE: UAW apology comes too late for Marines
www.freep.com/news/metro/date15e_20050315.htm | March 15 | Salina Ali

BLUNDER
The UAW has apologized to U.S. Marine Corps reservists and reversed its stand on which Marines can use the UAW parking lot. But it's too late -- the Marines have moved on.

The UAW recently banned autos owned by Marines that are either nonunion built or sport a George W. Bush bumper sticker.

The union -- whose offices are near a reserve center in Detroit -- had allowed the Marines to park without conditions in its lot for years.

After several days of bad publicity, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger -- a former Marine reservist -- retracted the decision Monday. "I made the wrong call on the parking issue," Gettelfinger's statement said.

"I'm glad he decided to change his decision," said Lt. Col. Joe Rutledge, commanding officer of the Marine Corps Reserve Center.

But the apology came too late. "The decision's already been made that we're not going to park there," Rutledge said. "We've already made other arrangements to park elsewhere."

Tony Camilleri of Dearborn Heights covered up the Chevrolet logo on his Silverado with a Toyota sign as a tribute to the Marines. The UAW has a longstanding policy prohibiting foreign makes from its parking lots.