Watch how the UAW takes down the teabagger Rand Paul in Ky this November

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-manatt/kentucky----the-2010-teab_b_581786.html

Posted: May 19, 2010 03:00 PM

Kentucky -- The 2010 Teabag War's Ground Zero

<snip>TEABAGISM: In his victory speech, Paul defended Jim Bunning's filibuster against extending unemployment benefits in March.

BLUEGRASS REALITY CHECK: 'nuff said.

TEABAGISM: Paul said the Financial Crisis was the government's fault -- not Wall Street -- and generally bashed the bailouts.

BLUEGRASS REALITY CHECK: Ask the workers at Ford Motor's Louisville plant what they think of the government's emergency loans to, among others, the car companies. Or for that matter the GM workers who make the Corvette in Paul's hometown, Bowling Green. Then ask them who the UAW will be backing in the fall.

The auto industry offers Conway an excellent argument against Teabagism's nihilism. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Ford's F-Series pickup - made in Louisville - becomes a more potent symbol of Teabagger's Kentucky defeat than of Scott Brown's Massachusetts victory.

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This should be a good example for those who don't understand why it is in you best interest to support American union workers when you have the opportunity.

UAW does not get involved in Democratic primaries either. It is against our Constitution. We know who the enemy is.

Don

[era veteran]

1. Too bad Toyota Georgetown is not a UAW shop

[NNN0LHI]

2. The workers at that plant had an opportunity few Americans ever get and declined

They figured it was in their best interest to keep scabbing off of union workers.

Chances are the people who reward scab labor by purchasing those products will some day be competing with scab labor themselves.

Don

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/18/biz_biz1toy.html

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Toyota proves union-resistant


After latest Ky. attempt, UAW is sent packing

By Brett Clanton
The Detroit News


GEORGETOWN, Ky. - Milt Sizemore has had enough of the United Auto Workers union. He's tired of the annual recruiting drives and all of the promises that come with them. Like hundreds of other workers at Toyota Motor Corp.'s massive factory here, he just wants to do his job and go home.

He may get his wish.

Late last month, national UAW organizers pulled out of town after yet another failed recruiting drive.

For nearly two decades, the UAW has been trying to win the right to represent workers at Toyota's Georgetown plant. And for nearly two decades, a majority of them have said, "No, thank you.''

[era veteran]

4. I think they are scared to unionize

Traditionally, the unionized parts of KY are Northern KY, Western KY, and Louisville.

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5. That is no excuse

You don't think the people who organized these unions decades ago weren't scared of being shot by company goons?

I bet they were. They still did it. And most of them never really lived long enough to enjoy too much of these benefits they fought for. The next generation did. That is who they were fighting for. And they knew it but they kept on fighting.

Nothing was handed to them.

Don

[era veteran]

6. I am not making excuses I am stating fact

I am sure as shit NOT sticking up for Toyota.

[Kalyke]

7. Surely, you understand the climate surrounding some

parts of Kentucky. The southern cities maintain a culture in which union members are considered "long-haired, hippy-type, pinko fags," while other areas of the state have cultural morays that support and laud unions.

Why this is the case, I'm not sure, but it most certainly is and these people have to live in these communities. The unions need a massive public relations campaign in the South to overcome a poor reputation. Of course, I have no idea how this reputation came to be. If anyone here knows or has a link, I'd love to read it. I have never been able to figure out how the poorest-paid workers, regionally, in the nation can hate an organization that would improve their paychecks, benefits and lives.

:shrug:

[era veteran]

8. OK, one word explanation: Communism

Unions have always been equated to the far left in the south. Of course not true but that is the way it is.

[get the red out]

3. "I support Toyota" bumper sticker

I saw an "I support Toyota" bumper sticker right next to a Rand Paul for senate bumper sticker on the same Avalon here in Lexington last weekend. I'm willing to bet it was a Toyota employee. I wonder if the non-union Toyota workers are mostly supporting militia-boy? I hope not.

This is wonderful about the UAW. People in this state need to wake up and stop taking the religious right drug. We have a big problem on our hands in this state. This carpet-bagging Texas fool wants to make average people into slaves, and Kentucky has been targeted as stupid enough to put up with that.