TTAC Called It: The Other Shoe Drops On UAW Concessions
A UAW local president has revealed that, as we suspected, the much-touted UAW concessions are no concessions at all. Mark McQuillen, president of UAW local 2404 (Charlotte, NC) has filed a report on last week’s emergency UAW meeting, and let slip a tiny detail that had not been previously publicized. In return for allowing Detroit to delay VEBA payments and “eliminating the Job Bank and negotiating a new provision to protect workers that otherwise would have been placed in the Jobs Bank program,” the UAW is said to be seeking “an equity stake in the company most likely in the form of a seat on the board of directors.” This is in addition to a taxpayer funded “special attrition program” which will buy out UAW workers in 2009 “providing that the loans are granted and that the government approves using some of the money for that purpose.” Concessions indeed.
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Don't forget that Gettelfinger himself was on the DiamlerChrysler supervisory board as one of the labor representatives until Chrysler was divested to Cerberus.
TaurusGT500 That you got three for one is probaly the result of Occupational Health and Safety laws for the operators and bystanders protection. The actual driver is probaly not allowed to leave the fork lift whilst in control, the assistant is to actually guide and help make sure the load is safe and secure and the supervisor is to make sure that all the rest of people, not directly involved in the job, are kept safely away from the proceedings. Else you might have shock horror headlines of "Forklift loses control, bystanders injured, suing event organisors"
jkross22: Thanks. I'd hadn't thought of it that way but you're absolutely right.