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On Mon, 11 May 2009 08:46:22 -0400, HK wrote:

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On Mon, 11 May 2009 12:13:43 -0400, HK wrote:

It will all come down to that "ban the secret ballot" law.
If the feds can get around state right to work laws the UAW might
succeed in destroying the whole US auto industry and sending all of
the plants to Mexico.
Ah, yes...those state "Right to Work for Less" laws the right wing uses
to make sure workers are no more than serfs.

... as opposed to those "card check" states where a union goon
supervises the workers decision to join? ;-)

Gee, I've been working with labor unions since the 1970s, and have been
involved in, literally, dozens of union representation elections. I've
yet to see anyone on the union side exerting even the amount of pressure
employers exert to sway the election.

You were not with the UAW were you?

My father in law had a VW beetle rolled over on the roof for parking
it too close to the Delco plant in Kokomo. He sold it and bought a
Nova after a snow plow destroyed it a couple months later. He got the
hint.

You have evidence the UAW was involved in either incident? More likely,
the former was simply an expression of love from his fellow workers.

When I lived in the Detroit area, the ad-pr agency I worked for had
American Motors as a client. I was not on that account, but it was
common knowledge at the agency that if you were heading out to AMC
offices or a plant, you went out there in an American-built car so as
not to offend management or workers.

I had a good time the few years I was in Detroit. Great restaurants,
great shopping, Sonny Eliot doing the weather and zoo reports, Canada
right across the river...