Chud is going to have a field day...
Chud, union collective bargaining helped to keep a Ford plant open in Ypsilanti. A deal between non-unionized Quicken Loans and Detroit will move 4,000 jobs out of Livonia.
Unions are not all bad.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friday, November 16, 2007
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no they aren't. coming from a family who's roots are in steel and coal, they aren't bad at all.
and I get very VERY angry when people start talking trash about unions. *cracks knuckles*
Hey, maybe you should call this place, "Never Cook Jello While Naked"?
Me too, really, evilscience...being a member of one, and all.
ok, first off, the writers should have forethought and actually have such provisions written into their contracts, pretty much like every other contract worker on the planet.
secondly, a CBA that keeps a money losing plant open in a city that is failing like the rest of the region due to the greed that is the UAW, is not a good thing. now, if, say, they kicked those overpaid, whiney, entitled assholes out of their jobs, kept the plant and opened the doors to non CBA laborers and paid a fair wage (not the exorbitant wage they currently do) then maybe there would be progress. progress in the way of moving an industry forward, settling housing costs and living costs. now, you can boohoo those union workers now looking for a job, but hey, they can go to any right to work state and work in a plant with all their experience, they just won't be getting union wage. i'd say it's better than riding a horse till it dies. cuz then you're left without a horse. this way, they have options.
as far as detroit and livonia are concerned, livonia is doing nothing to try to stop them. and it's not "4,000" jobs out of livonia. the jobs are still there, the people will still be working. they're not firing 4,000 people and starting new. no, they're moving to a city that is giving them a tax incentive to come, plus detroit gets to boast 4,000 new people paying a city tax. livonia has no city tax, so they see nothing of losing 4,000 daily commuters. besides, ford has been trying to take over the buildings occupied by quicken for years. the building managers have been trying to get rid of quicken because ford kept coming in with better offers, but quicken kept fighting to stay there. now, they incentive to move. this effects me in no way. try again.
evil science chick, that's because you've never seen the damage a greedy out of control union can do. come to detroit, look around.
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