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John[_6_]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:35:53 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:19:04 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Speaking of competition, it looks like the UAW won last night. They get
to keep their high salaries. They won't have to accept the drivel given
to the employees at Toyota and Honda.

Of course, that's only for the next few weeks.

They must be Yale graduates also.

Well duh...

That's the dumbest F'n decision, I think I've seen in my life. McConnell
must like Russian Roulette. After already giving $350 billion to Wall
Street to keep the markets afloat, he's unwilling to spend $14 billion.
That's one month's spending in Iraq.

If I'm not mistaken, there will be a bloodbath on Wall Street today.
Republicans sure know how to instill confidence in the economy.

UAW sure knows how to bend.

From Washington Post:

" The high-stakes talks broke down over when the wages of union workers
would be slashed to the same level as those paid to nonunion workers at
U.S. plants of foreign automakers such as Toyota and Honda.

Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), the lead GOP negotiator, said the sides were on
the brink of a deal on the amendment he had offered. Representatives from
the United Auto Workers -- who were present for most of the negotiations --
would not agree to a specific date, Corker said.

"We offered any day -- any day -- in 2009," Corker said."

Note, the words '...slashed to the same level as those paid to nonunion
workers..." came from the Washington Post.
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John