Strike is in the air in Ontario (instead of Buzz’s tailpipe pollution), and I hope its not catching, because there’s a strike vote for my workplace in Regina coming up. We’ve been without a contract since 2006. And there’s the cancer worker’s union strike threat in Regina too I just remembered.
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Oldschool | 25-Sep-07 at 11:03 am | Permalink
The UAW in the US should be out organizing Toyota, BMW, Honda and the other off-shore auto assemblers in the US and Canada. Instead they are posturing trying to defend their gold-plated contracts. The GM guys want job security . . . . who knows if GM will even exist in 10 years??? Maybe the GM guys should work for $16 an hour like the Toyoto folks in Tennessee do.
As Buzz says . . . buy and import and create 1 job in North America, buy a domestic auto and it creates 5 jobs. Quality you say . . . 3 of the 4 most reliable cars in North America according to JD Powers are domestics, only Lexus ties with Buick for No. 1, then Mercury, Cadillac . . . Honda is 5th and Toyota is 6th.
Many Canadian auto workers and suppliers are going to pay big-time for this lack of judgement by the UAW . . .
Look at the dummies in Vancouver . . . every time their contract comes up they go on strike long enough to pay for any increase they may negotiate. Are they stuck on stupid?? All they had to do this time was keep working, and negotiate what the other cities in the lower-mainland had obtained. But of course in looney-lefty land they had to pay-back the employer for some imagined slight. Now they are in the third month with no wages . . .
Saskboy | 25-Sep-07 at 11:46 pm | Permalink
Oldschool, it’s good to read a comment from you that I don’t think is mis/un-informed rambling :-)
At a union meeting this evening, there was a surprisingly (to me anyway) good turnout. Considering the ~24% pay increase to upper management at the workplace, there should be about that for the workers too right? ;-) Not anymore, now that the money is in the pockets of the head honchos I suppose. Funny that even MLAs get to cash in on pay raises while benefits of workers are being threatened.