[METAL MELTDOWN] Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:33:12 PM
UNION UNION UNION....HERES A STORY OR 2 FOR YA......
Years ago when I drove trucks, one of the jobs I had to do for my company was to babysit the GM engine line. I would witness, every time I went in EXCESS on the clock. There would be people sitting on their asses in a break area that would be sittin in the same spot hours later. I have seen people who were supposed to be working who were sleeping. I had to wake a guy up one time and he actually got pissed that I woke him up and he WAS on the clock.
I overheard 2 employees there talking about who the hightest paid person on that plant was. You would think it was the general Manager or someone else in authority. NO, it was a fucking tool room attendant!! He made, I cant remember the exact figure, but it was well in excess of 100K. How did he do it??? By going in and sitting on his ass and extra 20 or 30 hours a week collecting over time because the goddamned UAW said he could do it!!!!!
The smartest thing Delphi ever did was to restructure and shit can the UAW here in western NY. Those guys that are in there now are still making a damn good living in there and it is saying Delphi millions of dollars....
The UAW is half the reason you paid 30 thousand for the 15 thousand dollar car you bought......
Can you tell I am anti-union!!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:15:02 PM)
guidogodoy wrote:
Oh, you KNOW MM is right. Finance plays all sorts of games to show a profit by "mergers" and "acquisitions" of failing businesses (false profit...heh....) and most have a guaranteed bonus written right into their contracts. Signing bonus along the lines of Pro sports athletes (and I STILL want to be an NBA star...I have DRIVE, man!). I could cite a hundred examples from the tech industry. CEOs that were given insane amounts of money with absolutely NO audits / checks of any kind. As long as they were in the black by the end of the fiscal year was it. Fantasy "black" as it turned out but that is what has helped lead this country to the mess it is in right now in the first place, IMO.
Sorry, this Detroit kid knows too many that will be shut out of work with the Chrysler shutdown and GM / Ford isn't doing much better as per my friends who actually work the line. UNIONS hurt them big-time as it pushes industry to Mexico (thank you NAFTA) to produce most of an auto, rush it across the border, put a steering wheel on it and call it "American." That Union message is a pretty constant message from my friends. However, the upper-admin isn't doing much to help. Especially when you are dealing with freezing cold temps in MI and heating prices going through the roof. Very sad. Edited at: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:24:03 PM
