Reply #108: Funny, Blue_Tires, but I'm not that bad. [View All]

[mvccd1000]

I'm not an activist on any anti-UAW sites, nor do I go in search of this topic on the web. If it happens to pop up somewhere that I'm already posting, I'm more than happy to share my own personal experiences, though.

My "tour guide" through the plant at local 933 was a man who had started out as an assembler, made it up through night shift supervisor, and was currently taking the same class I was because he was becoming a field engineer (goes out to dealerships to troubleshoot particularly vexing problems). It's pretty safe to say that he was not a PR hack; he was someone who had spent years working and supervising in that very factory.

My own personal experiences with the UAW shipping department and UAW assemblers were exactly that; first hand information that I can attest to.

Read the papers from back in '98 during the Delphi strike in Flint; turns out the UAW extended the strike until GM would agree to hire one of the union big-wheel's relatives. Gee, THAT doesn't sound like anyone else people bitch about, does it?

I never tried to state that all unions are bad. I just said I've had personal experience with the UAW that causes me to hope they go down in flames sooner rather than later.