The outdated unions have effectively shut down our steel industry now they will ruin our auto industry.?
825842
Everyone wants fair wages, but when you get the unions getting people to strike, the companies get fed up and go elsewhere.  It will happen to any major industry that has a union.  Eventually, everyone is going to get fed up and go overseas to produce their goods.
280729
It is time to deal legally with employer's who use them for cheap labor,shut the door until we can take care of the legal citizen first kick out the ones here illegally lots of work to be done once again your government has failed to perform its function by enforcing the laws on the books!
1110869
Nope. Gone already. Be prepared to work at McDonald's and Wal-Mart your whole life because America's ability to manufacture ANYTHING has been sold overseas. It's called "outsourcing", the death-knell of America...
1137674
Workers unions are like bad marriages that you can't get out of. Besides these days if you go to talking union crap, most manufacturers will out source. It is that easy. Some people should be greatful that they have jobs, if you don't like the way a business is run...quit.
748769
If this is a breech of union contract, which I'm assuming that it is, your union officials, and shop stewards need to be raising some hell right about now. The company has flagrantly disregarded the labor contract, and it is going to take union solidarity to straighten this out, this means everyone filing a grievance for breech of contract. Contact your regional union Representative, to arrange a meeting with the plant manager. This is going to take everyone in your union local getting involved, if you want to fight this.\nLet me know how this turns out. Best Regards!
174924
Robots have taken over most of all the industrial plants and put a lot of people out of a job, auto industry is a good case and point for the robot question.
814047
Thanks to Mrs.Thatcher and now Tony, our manufacturing industry has been transferred to China and India, as a result our service sectors dominating our market place. Who knows what will happen if Honda, Nissan and Toyota decide to move their factories from  the UK  to a cheaper and more cost effective alternative in the eastern europe. I can only guess that recession will follow and this may even affect the service sector.In my view,at the present time the service sector is the dominant labour market in the UK.
263171
im a contractor so i will say this.. if they dont let them stay or if they enforce the currents laws then you people can say goodbye to new construction, renovations, and basically anything else that needs to be fixed, built, changed or altered..we will have no more labor force to help us with the difficult jobs..
283448
Bad. Mostly bad. Seldom good since many states are cracking down on hiring them anyway. See similar que a few minutes ago.
526528
This should not be an unfair affair in the working place and rules should basically be the same for all paid employees.  I see this happening today more and more.  Corporations are in for the maximum profit and take advantage of the workers anyway they can.  Unions were supposed to be the buffers between abusive corporations and helpless workers.  If you have a union then tell your union representative otherwise I don't think you have a chance.  You can easily be replaced, if many complain, then they take the jobs abroad where they can buy the government and we can intimidate them with our power, remember, we pay taxes to do that.
1082212
I think the issue is more then a depression. The United States is losing confidence throughout the world. Foreign and American investors are turning to Europe as the solidified economy. A depression indicates a periodic significant drop in the economy. I think its going to be much worse. It will be permanent. New jobs consist of unskilled and underpaid positions. When 10,000 Americans are applying for jobs that pay 8 dollars an hour, just so they can work, and basic fuel products, gasoline, natural gas, heating oil etc are skyrocketing, how are people going to afford this at 8 dollars an hour? We are watching the decline of the American dream and hence its empire. This is sadly written by someone who loves America.
141651
If you are able too fiqure out fact from fiction/spin from hype and be able to accurately read between the lines, I was able read that our leadership,China,India and cheap labor will continue to lower the standard of living in America and the people on the bottom of our economic society will be on the frontline paying with there lives via Poverty stricken,starvation,disease,fda. approvals in the food source that poison,military frontline activity etc.Also that the poor in this country is much larger than being acknowledge plus rapidly growing meanwhile, totally ignored by ALL the Washington insiders on both sides of the isle!The major oil companies still rule and Bush is there Go-boy! They are saying to hell with UAW and the Great lake area industries that once where tops in the industry worldwide,China is buying more oil than ever before! So now because we are global competitors our dumbass lawmakers are going to allow more trade inbalence by allowing China's automobile sales in USA! Get smart public boycott Walmart!
306266
New unionization in USA is a thing of the past (and has been for a long time). Thank the rednecks who tend to shop at Wal Mart and the fascists who run the place. (They all voted unions into powerlessness) If you work at Wal-Mart, you don't understand the machinery that is crushing you. Also, think of their products and how their slave labor who make those products in asia are treated! Way worse than that. Do you remember how KMart managers were treated when Wal Mart was crushing Kmart? Inhuman, impossible jobs assigned to them. I would have quit and been treated better being homeless, even if I had kids, so do a job search for your hubby while he works. SERIOUSLY! You can facilitate his new career at some teenie tiny store and be much happier. Help him get a job, any job and be much happier. I had close friends get the life sucked out of them trying to stay on the sinking ship. WalMart is not sinking, but they will sink you!
677343
I am from Michigan and have experienced a lot of the Delphi destruction first hand. I agree that the company is working hard to cover only a couple asses but in the process are screwing A WHOLE LOT of people over. I dont know how long the process of pulling down the company has been going on, surely they knew a good while ago that this current situation was inevitable. Its unbelievable to me that a company can be allowed to ruin the lives of people that had faith in them and spent years planning a future based on what they offered. I cant imagine what I would do if it was me. Some of them will have to start all over in order to keep what they already worked hard for. \nDamn corporate America. God knows myself and others have learned a lesson from all of this, dont count on anyone else to care for your future!
586354
I'm going to tell them 'GO TO HELL,YOU SORRY BASTARDS"!!! You SOLD OUT our country so businesses could have "cheap labor'??!!!! And THAT is EXACTLY who they are REPRESENTING!!! It SURE AS HELL ISN'T THE CITIZENS!!!!!
458357
Utilitize your local media.The worst thing this "union" can endure is an advertisement.
940855
All those union dues help pay the well deserved salaries.  How else would Ron Gettelfinger be able to live so comfortably?  \n\nOf course, I had an aunt who was one of the original hires at the GM plant in Oklahoma City and who was paid 50k a year to drive completed cars off the assembly line.  She barely even graduated high school.  Love my aunt, but gee, I wonder why cars are so expensive and why that GM plant just closed a few months ago?  Hmmmm...... things that make you go hmmm.