Union workers in Wayne assembly plant boo Gov. Rick Snyder during Ford Focus celebration

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Union workers in Wayne assembly plant boo Gov. Rick Snyder during Ford Focus celebration
2:39 PM, Mar. 17, 2011
BY BRENT SNAVELY
DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Hundreds of UAW members at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant booed Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder as he entered a celebration at a Ford plant today in Wayne.

The workers were wearing red shirts in solidarity with members of public unions in Wisconsin and across the Midwest who perceive that their collective bargaining rights are under attack by Republican governors. In Michigan, union members protested Wednesday in Lansing as Snyder signed a bill giving emergency financial managers the ability to cancel union contracts.

"Come on guys," Anderson Robinson, president of UAW Local 900 said as the event got started. "We've already proven our point."

Snyder, UAW officials and Ford executives gathered at the plant today to celebrate the launch of the redesigned Ford Focus, the automaker's most important new car this year.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110317/BUSINESS0102/110317030/UAW-workers-Wayne-boo-Snyder-during-Ford-Focus-celebration?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

[xchrom]

1. good. nt

[Octafish]

14. + 9 million

Michiganians and Michiganders.

[sarcasmo]

2. Should have been all booing and a middle finger.

[SemperEadem]

12. better still, turn their backs on him when he started speaking

that would have been even better.

[DJ13]

3. They should have brought rotten eggs to throw at him

[martymar64]

21. I was thinking spark plugs or D Batteries

[pacalo]

4. He was casing da joint before he heists da goods.

[Angry Dragon]

5. And what did snyder do that helped bring about the

redesigned Ford Focus??

Photo op ........... taking credit for someone else's work??

[plumbob]

10. Well, lessee, uh. ah, hmmmmm.

NOT A GODDAM THING!

In fact, when roaches show up, we usually call pest control,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[BR_Parkway]

20. He probably made campaign speeches about Obama's "car czars"

and how the government shouldn't have bailed out the auto industry

[Bozita]

23. He was the only one in the GOP primary who didn't. The other 5 split the nuts vote.

Essentially, Snyder bought and paid for his new job.

Just like Meg Whitman.

[MichiganVote]

6. K&R

[NeoConsSuck]

7. A few of the union members

should have 'escorted' him off the premises.

[demosincebirth]

8. He has a lot of nerve going there.

[Kurmudgeon]

15. That's the problem with hardcore right wing, all nerve, no sense, no compassion.

[Ian David]

9. Think this will be on the news? I don't. n/t

[forty6]

18. Excellent point! n/t

[SoapBox]

11. Bravo to those American workers!

...Gov. Hosni of Michigan (not to be confused with Gov. Hosni of WI and Gov. Hosni of FL) deserves every BOOOOO he gets.

[martymar64]

22. More like Governor Gaddafi

Fuck that fascist prick.

If his "law" is enforced, shit's gonna burn in Michigan. Mark my words.

[Zambero]

13. I wonder how "Joe Sixpack" conservatives are reacting to all this?

Might some of the Belgian Red crowd be making the switch over to Blue Moon any time soon?

[iwishiwas]

16. GREAT.

[iwishiwas]

17. GREAT.

[No Elephants]

19. "We've already proven our point." Don't bet on it.