A Few Words On Cars...
Lately I've been disturbed by the sheer amount of resistance toward any sort of bailout of automakers. Free-market conservatives have relished the death of the bailout bill in the Senate, which they...
View ArticleSouthern Senators and the Big Three
The southern Radical Republican senators who killed the proposed $15 billion US bridge loans to Detroit's Big Three were short sighted at best and may well be the act that could return their party to...
View ArticleGM expanding Mexican plants while seeking bailout
GM and Chrysler are expanding their production facilities in Mexico -- where labor is $3 an hour -- while reducing production at US plants where labor is $25 an hour, and, while seeking bailout cash...
View ArticleUnqualified Republican at DOT, What is Obama Thinking?
Originally posted at The Seminal.Ray LaHood (R-IL), who has a lifetime LCV score of 27% (p. 31, pdf), is your new Transportation Secretary. I repeat, a Republican with a consistently bad record on...
View ArticleOn-Ramp to Labor's Future Shock
UAW Activist Gregg Shotwell on Democracy NOW (link to video/transcript)
View ArticleWhy the UAW is important and why Republicans want to destroy them
I've read and posted on some fascinating blogs here regarding organized labor. Some are right on and some are way off base on their ideas. Quite often what is missing in the discussion is the history...
View ArticlePalin Opposes Big Three Loans, Even in Heavily Unionized Alaska
Oh, this is just rich.I would have done what the GOP did yesterday and said 'no' to additional bailout efforts of one industry. Picking winners and losers in Washington, D.C., is a dangerous thing to...
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Open Letter to Auto Workers in the South
http://www.autoworkercaravan.org/openletter Retired and active auto workers wrote an open letter to their counterparts in non-union auto plants across the country to express solidarity and a hope that...
View ArticleDetroit Auto Show Auto Worker Rally
On January 11, 2009, active and retired autoworkers, labor and community activists, and others concerned about the future of U.S. manufacturing, healthcare, the environment, the economy, and working...
View ArticleCar Problems
I spent years as an auto mechanic in Orange County, California. The owners of Orange County domestic car dealerships lived in several of the choicest homes at the end of the Newport Peninsula. For...
View ArticleIf you want to Rise up from the Ashes . . .
Please take a moment to read UAW activist Gregg Shotwell's Live Bait & Ammo #124: "If you want to Rise up from the Ashes" :
View ArticleVIDEO: Sit-Down! UE 'Recovery & Resistance' Tour Detroit
Leaders of the factory occupation at Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors – Bob Kingsley, UE (United Electrical union) National Director of Organizing, and Armando Robles, President UE Local 1110 –...
View ArticleWhat! We’re Smarter than Detroit? Fiddlesticks!
Lincoln Logs, An Ape named Travis, a 5000 DOW, and mendacity.Fellow American’s- What a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black. Home of the brave, land of the free; welcome to Freedonia,...
View ArticleWhen is a contract not a contract? If it's a union contract.
It is outrageous enough that President Obama's Chief Economic Advisor Larry Summers openly admitted to the government's double-standard approach regarding forced economic sacrifice when he said the...
View ArticleWorkers Occupy Chrysler Parts Supply Plant in Windsor
If international solidarity is what workers around the world have long needed, this opportunity is about as conveniently packaged as it gets:
View ArticleWhy the Auto Industry should be saved or "get out your wallet"
I started this diary as a comment on Muskegon Critics' diary to "STFU". There is a lot I agree with in there but that hasn’t moved the discussion forward much. I’ve approached this diary in a few...
View ArticleGM and Chrysler in the balance
The fate of GM and Chrysler is now in their hands. Obama has told them the hard truth -- either make major changes that are needed to remain viable, or go under. A lot of missteps have gotten them to...
View ArticleNo Nostalgia for U.S. Automotive Industry
The Big Three US automakers have spent the past 3+ decades making cars that were too big, used too much oil, and valued an outmoded sense of style over innovation and 21st century function.I for one am...
View ArticleA Death in the Family
A Death in the Family By David Glenn CoxLike a junkie or a crack head, American industry has become addicted to third world labor. The driving force in the economic equation has become finding the...
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