Comments on: GM, UAW Agree On Tentative Contract

Deal Ends Nationwide Strike, Heath Benefits-For-Retirees Program Created

[rick_vt]

GM, Ford... they''ve both have been on notice since the 1970''s. A few years ago I tried - after many years of foreign cars - a new top-of-the-line fully-equipped Saturn. It was the worst, most mediocre vehicle I could imagine. Now we have an American-assembled Honda and a Toyota - both far superior. If the high labor and union prices are stopping them from putting quality and content into the cars - they need to change or die. The death drum has been pounding on their sheet-metal for 30 years plus now.

[mbcsmith]

Why do you hate American workers so much? Are you jealous that they are getting a piece of the pie and you are not? What have executives making millions a year ever done for you that you would pick them over workers?

You say unions are corrupt. And corporations aren''''t corrupt too? Organizaions are sometimes corrupt, whether they be companies or unions, that''''s just the way it is. That doesn''''t mean all unions are corrupt, just like all companies aren''''t corrupt either. You don''''t throw out the baby with the bath water.




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Posted by rafterman1 at 11

1. I love the American worker, just hate blackmailing, crime ridden unions

2. There is no "picking", except for your nose. Unions, and their members are socialists perverting the capitalist society in America.

3. Unions are crime families.

[thgdriver]

I Know what I would have told them---You have 72 hours to man the assembly lines, after that the plants will close altogether. In one year we will reopen in MEXICO.

[ufosd01]

Report This! I wonder if anyone has pondered what is wrong with this
entire picture, treaties like NAFT and GATT are where the issue should be
addressed, our presidents of the last 30 years along with the House of
representatives have sold us out with faulty trade agreements that are at
best one sided and designed to bring hugh profits to world bankers and
globalist, these people are guilty of TREASON and history will one day
record it as such.
Our leaders have successfully helped communism do with out firing a
shot what many wars could not accomplish, ask yourself who has really
profited from these agreement, who owns who?, we are deeply indebted to
none other than Communism ; who now has enough wealth to buy our assets
without so much as a threat from our representatives.

[getloud1]

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[july420]

340,000 retired employee''s and their spouses are covered under GM health insurance plans?

GM needs to get with Humana (health insurance) and they can save you millions. Humana has a division that focuses on getting retired employee''s off of retirement group plans and on to medicare / medicare supplements. The retired employee''s have insurance (medicare)and they pay for medicare supplements thru social security. They are removed from the group plans and GM saves millions because the group plans are re-rated without the aging unhealthy individuals that raise the group rates for employee''s currently working for GM.

It is not realistic to pay for your retired employee''s health insurance! Medicare is designed to cover those 65 and older that do not have insurance.

It is just as much GM''s fault as it is the UAW!

The model that American automakers have lived by is broken like George Bush!

[mbcsmith]

Yes, thae auto makers should invest in technology. They can build robots that can do 95% of the functions of what these union criminals do, without the INFLATED wage and benefits.

[slim1h2o]

So the plant closes and a non-union work force is put in place and no air bags in the Packards is no longer a problem.


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Posted by rationalL7 at 10:17 AM : Sep 26, 2007

You failed to mention that Packard no longer exsits.

Seen in the news that GM is worth 22 Billion, and Google is worth $177 Billion, Something is out of wack here, when a search engine is worth more a car company!

[rationall7]

Bob Robert is a UAW that installs the air bags in Packards, the plant plant manager tells Bob for the rest of the month management doesn''t want you to intall air bags because profits are falling besides Bob, the manager says... what are the chances of these people needing the air bag I drove for 40 years without one, ha,ha,ha then Bob replies, the union and I will not put profits in front of safety. So the plant closes and a non-union work force is put in place and no air bags in the Packards is no longer a problem.

[antoniof123]

I am amazed at how stupid some people are here is a fact for you fascists that over the last 20 some years your buddies in the GOP have not told you.

For example Ford''s CEO last year earned 26 million dollars or a little more give or take and last year Ford lost 10+ Billion dollars and they laid off around 40,000 workers. Why because they say they can not compete. Wait a minute that is a lie they don''t want to compete they want to enrich themselves morons. Here is the fact we are the most technological nation in the world with the best infastructure for those of you who don''t know what that means we have the best roads and transportation in the world to move things. So with technology and infastructure we can move products and create products for less but our business leaders don''t want to upgrade because it takes away from there bonuses (less money in their pockets).

There of course is not easy solution but by and far it is not the unions fault they are trying to protect their workers from the sweat shops that would come back to America if they did not exist.

Of course fascists can''t think any further in to the future than yesterday. So as McVet says seig heil.