Class war in Illinois
Dec 6, 2008 Gelt, Oppression, Past is prologue, Politics and Poker, Stragety
It’s a brave new world, and their favorite son is not even in office yet:
Which side are you on?
Workers who got three days’ notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won’t go home without assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay.
About 250 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and Doors plant in shifts Saturday while union leaders outside criticized a Wall Street bailout they say is leaving laborers behind. . . .
“We’re doing something we haven’t done since the 1930s, so we’re trying to make it work,” she said, referring to a tactic most famously used in 1936-37 by General Motors factory workers in Flint, Mich., to help unionize the U.S. auto industry.
Of course in ’36-’37, the country was actually beginning to recover from the double whammy of the Depression and the New Deal policies that deepened it.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Ron, I think you
December 7th, 2008 at 1:58 am
So what’s your prescription for the worst economy in my lifetime? More conservative policies? You do know the definition of insanity, I’m sure.
December 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
“B,” we haven’t seen conservative economic policies in this country in a long time, so I can’t imagine what you mean. But you’re not really addressing my point here. Let me ask you a couple of questions:
Do you think these workers have any “right” to “take over” this building? Do you think more union power will be good for the auto industry’s survival? Or any manufacturing industry?
December 7th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Luv it, classic conservative response. It’s not the ideology at fault, it’s the pols who failed to adhere to it. If so, after being in power for so long, what’s the point of electing conservatives???
December 7th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I do agree with Ron on that point. There hasn
December 7th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
no they don’t have a right to take over the building
people are dumb and their IQ drops when in crowds or mobs, so.. they’re even dumber than usual…
IMHO –more union power will kill the auto industry…
the auto industry is staggering under the JOBS bank program of the union/ the unions are scared, their folks will be hugely out of work considering the that Big Three have paid for nearly 7K workers to sit around and do nothing… can you imagine 7K workers abruptly out of work? not a good thing for the economy so we need some part of union helping people along, BUT… the auto industry is struggling to match the innovation and the new technologies of the foreign companies… they will continue to lose market share as they have since the 70s. When you siphon off millions into keeping union stuff afloat, you can’t put that money into research and redesign. Having worked with auto companies before on serious research problems for automotive technology… I can attest these guys are stuck and in trouble. They cannot be competitive.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Why the Pete Seeger photo to illustrate the article? He’s hardly the only leftist folkie who sang that song.
December 7th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I don’t know why Ron chose to use that pic.
But I
December 8th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I have no idea why this is a question. I think Pete Seeger was awesome. DId you click through on that pic — no, click and then click it again on the original post where I used it…
December 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Heh.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4B87QE20081209
December 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
“Now as for me, I LOVE that shot for its blatant phallic symbolism.”
What ole Pete needs is a good hard shot of ukulele.
They call it the effeminate banjo.
“So what
December 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Anyone who has ever tried to improve some practice in a union shop knows what a near-impossible dream that is.