Comments on: DaimlerChrysler, UAW fail to reach agreement

By: Jon Luc

Jon Luc — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:28:00 +0000

Renton, that is one time I whole-heartedly agree with your statements.

By: Veda

Veda — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:46:28 +0000

Well said Renton. The fact of the matter is these guys have to wake up to the reality that most workers out there don’t have the easy life of a “mafia”. The good days are ending and once they go to the real world, let’s see how well they fare against the competition.

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:49:00 +0000

UAW,

Get your own health care, just like I have to do.

Stop ruining auto-companies UAW. If you were really smart you would have found a way to keep yourself alive and your employer profitable. You did not.

I will not miss you when you are gone.

By: nwmike

nwmike — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:00:50 +0000

I was going to post, but you all covered it well enough. ^^^^

By: TimG

TimG — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:27:10 +0000

I’m so tired of the unions. They were great for the workers 100 years ago. Now, they are a corporation inside of a corporation. The union bosses are there only to protect their own power and interests.

Unions have put many businesses OUT of business. And that’s a shame for the MFG’rs AND the workers, both. Look at Delta. They are in such a precarious situation, they’ll either go belly-up, or slash pension benefits. While the pilots have certainly been rewarded for their time, it’s certainly not right to take away their pensions (or cut them drastically) now that they are ready to retire-they’ve planned on this income for years.

It’s a lose-lose situation all around and the consumer is who ends up paying.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:46:15 +0000

They are a bunch of money hungry brats who stop before they kill the american companies.

By: Fatstrat

Fatstrat — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:07:10 +0000

The fact that you feel the need to ‘discreetly’ leave the union says it all.
In their current iteration they are crooked money sucking political machines that must be eliminated as they now exist if any of these corporations are to survive and produce the quality products that they are capable of.

By: YourNameHere

YourNameHere — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:47:33 +0000

let the union strike. hire non-union works. give him good wages/healthcare (not ridiculous like it is now) problem solved.

By: Toy Yoda

Toy Yoda — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:35:50 +0000

My healthcare sucks. I have no retirement pension. I don’t have a matching 401k plan. My job has been outsourced before. I think my current job will be outsourced at the end of this year. I don’t get compensated for all the overtime I put in and the weekends I’ve worked. Gone are the days of job security. I don’t understand why DaimlerChrysler just doesn’t ship all it’s jobs overseas. Being unemployed sucks, but you adapt because you are forced too. If UAW can hold out as long as they can, more power to them. I understand management position, even if I don’t like their decisions. I know if I’m manager, I’d try to get of the UAW as fast and discreetly as possible.