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While taxpayers are footing the bill to keep America's auto industry off life support, an undercover investigation shows illegal activities by Chrysler employees who have enjoyed nearly $15 billion in government money. Dozens of autoworkers in Detroit were caught on camera drinking beer and smoking marijuana before heading to work at the Chrysler plant that President Obama praised in a speech just two months ago. An exclusive investigation by MyFoxDetroit showed workers at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Mich., drinking beer and smoking joints while on a half-hour lunch break at a nearby park. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/23/chrysler_autoworkers_caught_on_camera_drinking_beer_smoking_pot_during_break.htmlWhile taxpayers are footing the bill to keep America's auto industry off life... more
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"If the UAW goes down all unions go down," so said auto worker Bishop Charles Ellis III, seen here praying with hybrid SUVs at The Greater Grace Temple. Hearing these guys talk, it's hard not to curse Senate Republicans who approved $750 billion for Wall Street but balked at $14 billion for Detroit. In light of the bailout deal collapsing, let us contemplate just what this means for the American workforce.
James Theisen is a truck driver for Chrysler. If he loses this job, he loses his pension, healthcare and house....
Again we ask, what’s going to happen to the workers?"If the UAW goes down all unions go down," so said auto worker Bishop... more
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Brian Schneck, President of UAW Local 259, on why we need a manufacturing Czar. Congress has bailed out Wall Street but not workers. According to Schneck, Congress has set the table to bring us to this point by supporting trade policies that undercut wages and drive jobs overseas. Wall Street blew up the world and they got bailed out. When workers and Unions are involved what do they get? Skepticism.Brian Schneck, President of UAW Local 259, on why we need a manufacturing Czar.... more
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Bishop Charles H. Ellis III of the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on why the vote against the auto bailout is an attack on labor. Let them go bankrupt he says is a call for dismantling the UAW and organized labor.Bishop Charles H. Ellis III of the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on why the vote... more
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James Theisen, a truck driver for Chrysler, says if he loses his job he may lose his home and his retirement. On Thursday, Senate Republicans blocked a bridge loan that would have allowed GM and Chrysler to continue operating. According to the LA Times, "antipathy to unions was an undercurrent through the weeks of negotiations leading up to Thursday's Senate vote rejecting the plan."
You can see the full panel with active and retired auto workers at GRITtv.org.James Theisen, a truck driver for Chrysler, says if he loses his job he may lose his... more
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I know we don't have any money to be handing out, but how can you bailout the financial district and let them take advantage of taxpayers while continuing their spa and resort trips, but not bailout the American Auto industry which employs over 33% of our nations workforce?
The car companies aren't the ones who got us into this mess, but the financial district and all the corruption did. Yet we give them handouts of 700Billion, and therefore can't afford to bailout American car makers. Does this not make sense to anybody else???I know we don't have any money to be handing out, but how can you bailout the... more
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WASHINGTON: The White House has refused to say whether or not it considered troubled US auto giants seeking US government help to be too
important to the US economy to be allowed to fail.
Asked several times whether the hallmark carmakers could be allowed to fail, or whether the resulting economic shocks would be too great, spokeswoman Dana Perino declined to answer directly.
"Hopefully, the companies will be able to figure out a way to survive, and it won't ever come to that. But it's just too early to say, and I shouldn't speculate on it," she told reporters.
Asked whether she was saying that the automakers
did not meet the criteria for "too big to fail," the spokeswoman replied: "I'm not saying that."
At the same time, she left unclear whether the White House considered the automakers to be "viable" companies, a requirement if they are to receive emergency loans under a special US Energy Department program.
"Congress was very wise in setting some limits on these loans," she said. "A non-viable company is probably not something that you want to help, because, in the long-run, the taxpayers wouldn't get their money's worth."
Asked whether she was saying that the auto giants were a bad investment, Perino replied: "I didn't say that."
"I'm not the judge of what is a viable company or not. That would be a determination made by the Department of Energy and the Treasury," she said.
Perino again rejected aiding the automakers under a 700-billion-dollar economic bailout package for banks as currently configured but signalled openness to possible congressional changes to the rescue plan.WASHINGTON: The White House has refused to say whether or not it considered troubled... more
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