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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 10:58 PM Original message |
Lower wages are new reality as Detroit Three add workers |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. pathetic... |
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cstanleytech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Compared to some though they are doing ok. |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
32. true... |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. even the asshole ford figured he`d have to pay his workers... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. So now auto workers make 20% less |
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OnlinePoker (837 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. New hires make 20% less. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. And where were these articles last year |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. They will never go up to match previous wages under current contract. |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. Workers were never taking home anything like that |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. The modern UAW is a huge part of the problem. It has acted as treacherously as corporate management |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Or did they realize Globalization has created a crisis and you cannot |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. OHdem10 -- You are absolutely right. |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Agreed |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
29. UAW supported NAFTA and GATT |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. No it didn't. Locals got the word from Intnl to phone Congress to vote against it. |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
36. You know nothing about the UAW or unions. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Reminds me of.... |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
7. Mostly the result of globalization... we are in a wage correction phase now in most job sectors.. |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Globalization is a corporate buzzword on a level with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 02:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Corporate buzzword??? |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 06:32 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Jesusfuckingchrist, you "use" Friedman for an example? You do................ |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:16 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Excellent book.. I would suggest reading it.. |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:16 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. I watch C span, LINK and FSTV among others and when I see........ |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Boy have you drunk the koolaid, DCBob. |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:55 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I dont think so... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
26. Or world wide workers have been underpaid... |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. No doubt many are terribly underpaid but correcting that problem is another issue.. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
38. As is the problem of underpaid American workers... |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. So long as corporations can import goods more cheaply than they can make them here... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. You are so right. |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Very well put, informed treatise against the "world is flat" argument. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
34. Well said. n/t |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
11. Divide and conquer. The final blow to unions. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
18. The "New World Order" at work... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
19. a small slice of what's happening to America as a whole. |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
22. At first glance I thought it said "Detroit adds three workers" |
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NikRik (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:19 AM Response to Original message |
25. The low end workers getting the shaft ! |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
28. Just like our Mexican brothers |
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