Unions own GM, threaten to walk out on themselves

[tin_foil_hat]

Auto workers at the Indianapolis stamping plant of General Motors have taken a courageous stand against the gang-up of the company and the United Auto Workers union to force through a 50 percent wage cut. At a meeting Sunday rank-and-file workers shouted down officials from UAW headquarters in Detroit and drove them from the meeting.
The visceral hostility to the highly paid union executives reveals a healthy class instinct. The stamping plant workers recognize that they have nothing in common with officials who take home six-figure salaries by forcing workers to accept the slashing of jobs and wages by the corporations.
The effort to browbeat the rank-and-file into accepting wage cuts from $29 an hour to $15.50 an hour continues with the full-page ad in Tuesday’s Indianapolis Star, placed by JD Norman, the company which aims to purchase the stamping plant from GM and transform it into a low-wage sweatshop.
Both company owner Justin D. Norman, a 34-year-old former stockbroker turned auto industry parasite, and Maurice Davison, the director of UAW Region 3, make the same argument, claiming that the workers who turned out for Sunday’s meeting did not represent the majority at the plant.
Norman’s ad declares, “I do not believe that only a few vocal opponents should determine the fate of this great manufacturing plant.” This sentiment is echoed by Davison, who told the Star, “Out of the 600 that work there, about 200 were carrying that message (to deny a vote). I wonder about the 400 that didn’t come out to that meeting.”
Neither company nor union official refer to the vote on May 26, when the rank-file, by an overwhelming majority of 384 to 22, rejected any talks with JD Norman. The UAW has sought to overturn this democratic decision and ram through the wage cut against the will of the workers. The union is working as a full partner of GM and JD Norman.
 
 
Workers at the Indianapolis stamping plant must break free of the UAW straitjacket and form a rank-and-file committee, independent of Local 23, Region 3 and Solidarity House, to wage a militant and uncompromising struggle to defend jobs and living standards.
The stamping plant workers should occupy the factory to prevent its shutdown by GM or takeover by JD Norman. They should make an appeal for support to auto workers at GM, Ford, Chrysler and supplier plants throughout the Midwest and nationwide. Contact should be made with auto workers in other countries who are facing similar attacks. Any such appeal would be received with enormous interest, attention and support.
 

[mudslinger]

LMAO, UNION MEMBERS ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO STRIKE AGAINST THEMSELVES, BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE DUMB.

[topgear]

This should do wonders for GM's IPO.

[tin_foil_hat]

They still don't get it. If they dont take the pay cut the plant will close. So it's $15.50 an hour or $0 an hour. And when it does they will blame everubody but themselves. Particulary their Union brothers who have become bosses.
 
Oh, and let me post my source. You Libs will want to bookmark it.
 
http://www.wsws.org/category/namerica.shtml

[mudslinger]

BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO THEM IS THEY ALL LOSE THEIR JOBS, UNIONS ARE AS OBSOLETE AS KEROSINE LAMPS.

[topgear]

In New York in the 60's, unions struck 3 newspapers. The Herald Tribune, the Journal American and the World Telegram. The unions wouldn't budge on their demands, and all 3 newspapers folded. Everybody lost their job. The union response was "We showed them!"

[August West]

Unions should actually compete to see who will work for the least amount of money. We can get the 10 year olds back into the coal mines and within a year or two we`ll be Haiti.

[flgirl]

Now you all know why obama wanted to take over the car companies.  I think it is to bring the auto companies down to a state so they coincide with the democrat czar that says American people make too much money and that needs to change.  They want to bring you people down so they can be lords over you.  They want to be like it is in other lowlife countries, the politicians make all the money and the rest are poor people.  You all are finally getting a taste of what you voted for and were so proud of till now.  If those wages do come down, they need to drop all other prices that you have to pay for out of your paycheck, including cars.  If they don't, your goose is cooked.   

[Byteryder]

Unions should actually compete to see who will work for the least amount of money. We can get the 10 year olds back into the coal mines and within a year or two we`ll be Haiti.

There are places in the land that already are.

[topgear]

"No deal. Union workers at the GM Stamping plant near downtown rejected efforts to negotiate a new contract.

The contract would have led to the plant's sale to keep it open but the deal also would have resulted in a steep pay cut

Local UAW members booed and kicked out their own international leadership before they could even present a contract proposal.

Those local leaders had said they will not vote on a new contract because of concessions like pay cuts even if it means the plant will be closed.

"I'd rather see this place close than JD Norman take over and pretty much destroy everything," said worker Tim Penley. "


See? History repeats itself.