UAW: Senate GOP Voted Against Bailout To Strike "Blow Against Organized Labor"

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UAW: Senate GOP Voted Against Bailout To Strike "Blow Against Organized Labor"
By Ray Wert, 10:41 AM on Fri Dec 12 2008, 660 views



At a press conference today, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger read an e-mail indicating Senate GOP members played political games, voting against the auto bailout bill as an attack against organized labor.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger read an e-mail he claimed was from Senate GOP staffers indicating the Senate GOP was trying to deliver a blow to organized labor and the UAW. The alleged e-mail states:

"Republicans should stand firm and take their first blow against organized labor rather than from it...again, the hardest thing for the Democrats to do is get 60 votes. If we can hold the Republicans, we can beat this."

Later in the press conference, Gettelfinger claimed the Republican minority in the Senate voted against cloture on the Senate bill as an attack on the UAW due to their political effectiveness against their membership.

Alex Taylor on CNBC put this whole debate over UAW wages, whatever they may be, into perspective as he said labor cost per car are really only about $800 per car, so even if the UAW were to work for free, it wouldn't save GM from failing in the month of December.

Thank you Senate Republicans, for putting politics in front of staving off Carpocalypse Now.

don't we pay enough taxes for the BailOut of their Wall St. $20million a year CEO buddies

tank the American auto industry for petty political payback.

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but the automakers have been whining - for years - that health care costs them $1,500/car?

Are there that many living retirees? What, do autoworkers retire after five years on the job?