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From the article:
The local took concessions in contracts following the 2007-08 economic crisis, when new car sales took a nosedive from 16 million annually in 2006 to less than 10 million by 2009.......
The companies that were bailed out have all since become profitable again, hiring thousands of workers. Meanwhile, in the same time period, the union's contracts gave concessions to dealerships around health care and wages, and workers' wages have effectively decreased.
The more than $12 billion transferred to the auto companies and their subsidiaries include federal tax dollars paid from auto repair mechanics, whose wages and living standards suffered as a result of a financial crisis they had no hand in creating. This is another example of the truth of a popular Occupy Wall Street slogan: "The banks got bailed out; we got sold out."
To read more:
http://socialistworker.org/2017/08/07/these-mechanics-want-to-fix-past-concessions
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But it is interesting that the capitalists never want to concede anything. And by capitalists I mean the owners of the means of production, not those who claim to be capitalists even as they work a regular job.
My name: William B ....
Just noticed yours!
Alons, enfants.......
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Je suis coupable, oui.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)longer ago than I care to recall
Still know most of it by ❤️
Where's my wallet!
English translation is très bloody, non?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)As is the Canadian anthem.
The US anthem is also filled with rockets and bombs.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Pretty cool images, if in ironic historical context
Speaking of irony:
Michael Moore at his best?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Amazing. Perhaps the Southern states?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Somebody set fire to the truck
Now they all seem to love Russia down there
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.639a113fd0e6
Richard Engel's Show had a great seg on NRA Tennessee oligarch connection