MSNBC: 'Card check' best hope for auto workers union?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27836262/

Congress to vote on Employee Free Choice Act to make unionization easier

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msnbc.com
updated 11:38 a.m. CT, Fri., Nov. 21, 2008

Tom Curry
National affairs writer

WASHINGTON - Congress returns after Thanksgiving to decide whether to approve a $25 billion loan to General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford. The future of United Auto Workers members in Michigan and other states is at stake.

“It appears to me we possibly have one too many auto makers,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who opposes the loan.

But he said, “even if they went through Chapter 11, there will be U.S. auto makers in this country. I don’t think there’s anybody in this country that really thinks if they went through some re-organization that we’re not going to end up with U.S. auto makers at the end of that. We are.”

But it will be an industry in which fewer workers are represented by the United Auto Workers. And that doesn’t cause Republicans like Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., any regret.

“I think the United Auto Workers and some of their wage demands and work habit demands have hurt the industry,” Sessions said.

One advantage the Honda and Hyundai plants in Alabama have over the General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford plants in Michigan is lower labor costs. That's because, in part, auto workers in Michigan are represented by the UAW and workers in Alabama aren’t.

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[BlueManDude]

1. Someone needs to inform MSNBC that the GOP does not control congress.

[glowing]

2. Perhaps its time for companies to recognize what business they are in.

The companies in business of making cars, are not just making cars, they are providing transportation.. Time to re-tool and begin building mass transit lines.. I'm expecting that President Obama will be instituting a demand such as this to the auto-makers. AND to make cars that are fuel efficient and for the modern world. This means building infrastructure to support mass transit thru the entire country and laying new and improved electrical grids to support the infrastructure and the cars of the future.. It will take Washington to mandate and help fund. It will take the Big 3 into the modern world... I would also say, the pay for the top execs has to be changed. CEO's should not be making so many millions, while they lay thousands of people, families, and communities off. Money, unfortunately, makes the world go round.. otherwise, people wouldn't care to be treated like slaves.