UAW - Game Over!

GM offers buyout to every North American hourly worker.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/12/news/companies/gm/index.htm?cnn=yes

GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said in a statement:
"We've worked with our UAW partners to ensure our employees have a variety of attractive options to consider. The special attrition program is an important initiative that will help us transform the workforce."

They've become like Kwame Brown or other NBA do-nothings. Nothing more than salary cap baggage to GM, just hanging around.

 

Hourly employees getting a $45k buyout isn't horrible. Could have been like $1,000 for every year of service or worse, what newspapers are doing.

 

Walter Reuther is spinning in his grave. Story did not say but I imagine that GM will hire back many of the workers that they bought out as non union laborers.

 

Imagine if we had a Scretary of Labor who cared about, well, Labor.
Oops, I'm sorry. What was I thinking?

 

It's a she, isn't it?
Elaine Chao McConnell beard...er..wife of Mitch.

 

Chaio to the UAW

 

Not bad, Boom.

 

Without jobs, there isn't a need for labor. Something socialists seem to forget.

Unions did their part to sink the auto industry in the U.S., and it's finally time to pay the piper.

 

I think its payback from the Japanese. We sunk their boats and now they are sinking our auto industry 60 years later.

 

And so much for a century in which building a viable middle-class was considered important.

 

We'll have Rouge River again in a few years. This time we will be able to see the riots live on CNN