Is CNN Anti-Union? Are Honda workers brainwashed?

[Thickasabrick]

I get more confused when I read stuff like this about the whole bail-out thing. I'm still on the fence as I just don't know....but I also don't have any family who work or are retired from the Big 3.

ANNA, Ohio (CNN) -- Many people in the diner know someone working in the car industry. They are certainly in car country -- there's an engine factory down the road, and they live between Ohio's major plants and the Detroit home of the industry.

You don't have to go far in any direction to find a threatened auto plant. But the diners and staff do not back a proposed $25 billion bailout.

The car industry in their neighborhood is doing well -- the Honda engine plant in Anna, Ohio, sits amid lots crowded with employee vehicles, ringed by carefully trimmed trees and endless farm fields beyond. It recently underwent a $75 million, 135,000-square-foot expansion.

The success of the factory, which Honda says has built 15 million engines from scratch since it opened 23 years ago, has been spread beyond Anna, which lies in western Ohio between Dayton and Toledo.

"Honda's really helped this area as far as housing, retail sales, the restaurant business," said Tim Rogers, who has owned the Inn Between Tavern in Botkins, just up the road from Anna, for 33 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/20/honda.town/index.html

[rucky]

1. I live in the next town. CNN was cherry-picking.

This is fucking propaganda.

The community's had a bloodbath of layoffs, and Honda forced early retirement to it's longtime workforce and now only hires temps. My father-in-law was a 19 year employee at that plant.

Other employers, like Leer, shut down, or is just running sporadically. Their contract was with GM to cut interiors for SUVs.

[Thickasabrick]

3. Thank you Rucky - if you read the article is doesn't say jack squat

about temp employees - layoffs, etc. That's what worries me. If this is the only information that people like me who don't know the details receive, then that's what the masses will believe. The waitress interview was what made me a little suspicious

[anonymous171]

2. Media has a corporate slant. They love free trade and hate unions.