1 View
Ford Pays UAW Bosses to Get Haircuts, Bowl, Buy Booze
by
Robert Farago
(IC: employee)
Published: January 5th, 2009
Share
Unintentionally, obviously. As in the Ford employees are on the clock and off gallivanting around at the same time. Anyway, watching this Rescue4 (WDIV) TV investigation, you can almost hear the station’s Program Director. “Jesus Christ! Jesus H. Christ! You can’t air that! Union bosses getting paid for working while they’re, what, getting haircuts and shopping for booze? Oh wait. This IS good. Hmmm. OK. Kiss their ass. Ford, I mean. A lot. Talk about the turnaround. What’s that electronic thing called? Stink? Slinky? Whatever. And make sure you say that most Ford workers don’t do this. Get the Harbour report guy. THEN screw ’em. Hehehehe.” The screwees in question: “six-figure” union chairman Jim Modzalewski and “union security rep” Ron Seroka. If you think this is an isolated incident, chances are you’re too good for this world.
Robert Farago
More by Robert Farago
Published January 5th, 2009 8:41 PM
Comments
Join the conversation
Having spent a good amount of time in a auto manufacturing plant I can say that this does not suprise me. I've seen drug deals go down on the line, plenty of beer cans in the parking lot, one woman was running a brothel from her post, others would let vehicles go by without installing their parts. When you have as much power as the UAW has, corruption is inevitable. Not everyone is bad, most were hardworking honest people, but the level of shenanigans far outweighed what I've seen in any other work environment.
Here we go again.... How many hours of overtime abuse by these guys equals the $20 million Alan Fishman 'earned' by babysitting Washington Mutual for 3 week? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Fishman How many hours of overtime abuse by these guys equals the $280+ million than Enron paid its top [s]crooks[/s] executives as they drove that company off of a cliff? http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/22/0322enronpay.html How many hours of overtime abuse by these guys equals the $9+ billion dollars of cash(or 363 tons of $100 bills, to put it another way) that just...disappeared in Iraq? http://www.amconmag.com/article/2005/oct/24/00007/ How many hours of overtime abuse by these guys equals the $50+ billion of investor money that Ponzi King Bernie Made-Off (the actual pronunciation of his last name) with? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/03/AR2009010300040.html And on and on and on Next on Rescue 4! Local child steals Milky Way bar from Walgreen's! Film at 11! On the grand scale of corruption, these pikers are much closer to the Milky Way thief then they are to the Masters of The Universe. http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom
. When I managed union shops it was my experience the biggest drunks, malingerers and troublemakers got themselves into protected union positions.
Any idea what happened to these guys (if anything?)