GOP targets auto union

Yes, victimofcoal, but let's get verbally noisy, too!

Edit some of the ideas on this page and send the finished letters to the editors all across this country bashing Republican hypocrites.

Keep the letters down to about 250 words and use your real name and address or they won't get published.

They will usually delete the address when they print the letter.

You damn sure don't hear talk radio host bashing greedy corporations - just unions and hypothetical "legacy" earnings.

Set them straight by acting on this idea and passing it on to others, too.

Organized , peacefull, civil disobediance is a great place to start.

Great comments..now what do we DO?

I had lots rather get into a discussion with the hyper-capitalists like JohnA on why he thinks it's okay for Insurance companies to pay out 55 cents in claims for every 100 cents they collect in premiums.

They're not even selling a manufactured product and half of their expenses are spent hiring new people to figure out how many more cents of every dollar they can unfairly steal from claimants.

I can guarantee you GM, Chrysler and Ford are giving you a car with a lower margin of gross profit than insurers are in insurance policies. And then there are the oil companies.

For the "Corporatists" here, there is no profit too obscene for the corporations in America but let a worker make 1/1000th of what a CEO does and they scream "UNION BASTARDS" at the top of their greedy little hearts.

It's like the Social Security bashers who went to public schools for 12 years at no charge forgetting about all the childless people who paid for schools, hospitals, police and fire while they were not earning a dime or paying a penny's worth of taxes for the first 15 to 18 years of their lives.

What a bunch of hypocrites!

The Board of Education was dissolved...groups that regulate themselves always color themselves pretty...even when a teacher was ineffective or useless they received tenure and retirement when they did not produce...if the union had been keeping tabs on the guys that they were supposed to be supporting how did they go bankrupt? maybe the union needs to go too..

To take money from union workers is wrong. But, I don't know if you've seen the stock market lately, but all workers are having money taken away from them. What makes them better than me?

Over the last 8 years the UAW has been back at the negotiating table 3 times. Each time giveing concessions of benifits, pension and wages. All the while Management and the Board of Directors gave up nothing, yet continued to build Hummers, Escalades, and other land-liners as directed by Washington and the oil industry. Now after losing thousands of Auto ind. jobs the UAW is to blame for it. That's like saying when 50% of the students flunk out , it's the janitors fault.
And yes after 8 yrs of union busting Republican corporate first policies, When you combine value of pension with healthcare costs and salaries, the nonunion workers at these Honda/toyota plants make a few cents more. MONJA, MONJA

the difference between the southern and northern automakers is healthcare, mainly! we dont have the same system for healthcare as the employees for Nissan and Toyota does, we actually have to pay an arm and a leg to stay healthy. i think there is a big bias going on and to try and take money from union workers during this time of crisis is so wrong! where was all this talk about regulation when AIG received 150 billion and Citigroup who also received more billions? But when it comes to blue collar workers its another story.

The difference being Toyota and Honda aren't asking the Federal Government for $15 billion of my tax dollars. The UAW wants my tax dollars so they can go on collecting wages and benefits I'm not able to get myself. They should all take a pay cut, from the top executive to the lowest janitor if they want that type of money. Or better yet, if they can't keep up, they should go away. And by the way, if the auto workers in Mississippi make more than the ones in Michigan, I will eat my hat.

GM manufactured the EV-1 in 98. EXXON MOBILE purchased the patent rights for the batteries they used and killed the production of this car. And yes, the toyota and Honda workers actually make a few pennies more per hour than UAW members at the big 3.
FOX News proves to be unreliable yet again as a legitimate source of information.
And by the way, nationalized healthcare would reduce the automakers financial burden by more than 30%. Not to mention reduceing auto insurance rates by as much as 50% and another 25% on homeowners insurance.
So before you jump on the obstructionist bandwagon and demonize the American worker, Stop by one of the over 1400 Wal-Marts nationwide, not one union, less than 50% employees have healthcare and 70% of the products are made by slave labor in communist China. Free Trade works for 5% of America and destroys the quality of life for millions and millions.

How hard is it to figure out that no one is buying the products the big three are producing? Why should my tax dollars go to fund labor making a product that nobody wants? Obama says we will all have to sacrifice, does that mean everyone except the UAW? Yes I am biased because I do live in a state that produces "foreign" cars. Why can't the workers of the big three make concessions to put them on par with the workers in my state making a product that is in demand? The people of my state will not get a bailout, they get nothing from this except an increased tax burden. My Representative, a Democrat, voted against it and I appauld him for it, and I hope the Senate keeps the pressure on.

I really don't think that our economy, let alone the rest of the world, can afford US automakers filing Chapter 11 while the GOP plays with union busting.
It's best to consider all the other companies who rely on the, so called, "Big Three", both here and abroad as a livelyhood.
Meanwhile, why is it that the non-union foreign automakers in the southern states won't come clean about what they pay their workers? Could it be that they actually pay them more than their unionized counterparts?

This isn't just the GOP. It's the north (read Detroit) against the south (foreign automakers in the U.S.). There were several southern Democrats who voted against this bailouit.

Now just tell me how it is fair for my tax dollars go to fund the wages and benefits of the union workers of the big three, which I myself are not entitled to, for doing work that is obviously not in demand, when the auto workers in my state working for Nissan and Toyota (yes, a southern state) who are making cars that are in demand (one factory makes Priuses) do not make as much or have as good of benefits. Just why would I support that?

AUTO UNION TARGETS AMERICAN PEOPLE
The labor and labor associated cost of production for the big 3 automakers is $73 per hour. The same cost for foreign automakers producing in the U.S. is $48. Until that changes the big 3 are doomed. They cannot compete.