01-30-2011, 07:05 PM
The UAW ... don't get me started on unions!
No, I never belonged to one, but they certainly gave me a full ration of bovine excrement! I had a grievance filed against me because I was seen carrying my own screwdriver (that I had brought from home) down the hall to MY model shop! I mean, c'mon ... get serious! All because I wore a white shirt and a tie!
It seems that the union bosses live as well as (or better) than many of the white collar execs and the rank and file do everything the union bosses tell them ("Go out on strike!") to their own detriment. Do you think the union bosses have to try to exist on "strike pay?"
We live in a "global economy," there's no getting around it. Parts are made where they can be built economically. Product is assembled where it can be done "affordably." Built into the price of each car is a piece of the incredible retirement benefits the UAW coerced the Big Three into accepting or there would be a strike. (I don't have full medical coverage nad 2/3 of my pay rate for the rest of my life ... do you?) The companies should have said, "O.K. ... go out on strike. How long can you exist on 'strike wages,' and how tough will the strike be on your union bosses?"
For some reason, I don't think the rank and file union members realize that their top guys make as much (or more) than some of the upper echelon corporate management guys do! But the corporate guys are evil 'cause they make so much money.
When was the last time a poor guy offered you a job?!!!
Listen ... just buy a vehicle that suits your needs, doesn't devastate your budget, has a good maintenance track record and you think you will be able to live with for at least half a dozen years. Although I am prejudice in favor of Ford, having driven them since the sixties (starting with a '49 Tudor flathead V8) and having a Bro-in-Law who is "highly placed" in the company (and therefore privvy to what's going on in the auto industry) I would probably get a Focus or a Fusion, built here ... both good vehicles.
No, I never belonged to one, but they certainly gave me a full ration of bovine excrement! I had a grievance filed against me because I was seen carrying my own screwdriver (that I had brought from home) down the hall to MY model shop! I mean, c'mon ... get serious! All because I wore a white shirt and a tie!
It seems that the union bosses live as well as (or better) than many of the white collar execs and the rank and file do everything the union bosses tell them ("Go out on strike!") to their own detriment. Do you think the union bosses have to try to exist on "strike pay?"
We live in a "global economy," there's no getting around it. Parts are made where they can be built economically. Product is assembled where it can be done "affordably." Built into the price of each car is a piece of the incredible retirement benefits the UAW coerced the Big Three into accepting or there would be a strike. (I don't have full medical coverage nad 2/3 of my pay rate for the rest of my life ... do you?) The companies should have said, "O.K. ... go out on strike. How long can you exist on 'strike wages,' and how tough will the strike be on your union bosses?"
For some reason, I don't think the rank and file union members realize that their top guys make as much (or more) than some of the upper echelon corporate management guys do! But the corporate guys are evil 'cause they make so much money.
When was the last time a poor guy offered you a job?!!!
Listen ... just buy a vehicle that suits your needs, doesn't devastate your budget, has a good maintenance track record and you think you will be able to live with for at least half a dozen years. Although I am prejudice in favor of Ford, having driven them since the sixties (starting with a '49 Tudor flathead V8) and having a Bro-in-Law who is "highly placed" in the company (and therefore privvy to what's going on in the auto industry) I would probably get a Focus or a Fusion, built here ... both good vehicles.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln