[IH8Rice]

....but they'll "expose" you as a "human rights violator" unless you let them into your factories.

United Auto Workers President Bob King stepped up his rhetoric today, demanding that foreign automakers allow workers the right to decide whether to join a union or not.
King, who spoke at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, threatened to "expose" companies as "human rights violators" that don't agree to fair bargaining, but stopped short of calling for a possible boycott.
"I would not want to be a company that was branded as a human rights violator," King said. "That would be a bad business decision."
The UAW has set aside $60 million from its strike fund to work to organize U.S. auto plants owned by foreign automakers — and has vowed to conduct global protests if they don't agree to fair union elections.
"They spend millions of dollars trying to keep the UAW out of their facilities," King said, arguing that it would be cheaper for them to work with the UAW.
"These are all really good companies. We just have to convince them that we're not the Evil Empire that they think that we were at one point," King said. "The UAW has learned from the past."


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110112/AUTO04/101120374/UAW-to-foreign-automakers--‘We’re-not-the-Evil-Empire’#ixzz1AxFvfPgd

 

[stoney]

....but they'll "expose" you as a "human rights violator" unless you let them into your factories.

They're put how many car companies out of business how many times? Yeah....

 

[IH8Rice]

They're put how many car companies out of business how many times? Yeah....

none?

 

[MMike]

They should be killed right in the face with fire. And then falcon punched.

 

[X3pilot]

Modern day mafia.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I was briefly a UAW member in 1964 when I worked as a temporary assembler at a Ford plant in Mahwah, NJ. The stint taught me the stupidity of work rules but did not sour me on unions in general.

 

[IH8Rice]

there was a plant in Mahwah?? where?

 

[stoney]

My dad also worked at a union auto plant while growing up. You were given a specific job that should take a specific amount of time to do as the car went past. If you couldn't finish it within your station, you were supposed to hit a red button to stop the line. He had to keep hitting the button because the guy at the station before him always went halfway into his station, never hitting the button. He tried to explain to mgmt why he had to always hit the button, but the individual at the station prior was a ranking member of the on-site union. Needless to say, he didn't last long there. The union members always protected the other members, no matter what.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

"The UAW has learned from the past."

Guffaw....

 

[DaveW]

"They spend millions of dollars trying to keep the UAW out of their facilities," King said, arguing that it would be cheaper for them to work with the UAW.

They must be.....