Posted by
John Finnigan on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:29:52 PM
UAW fails it’s members, again.
Here it is, the UAW is striking G.M.. It seems that this is the first national strike in about thirty years. The question is why is the UAW striking G.M.? Do they hope to get anything more then they have been offered by management? Perhaps better wages or benefits? Or maybe better retirement or health benefits? The answer is sadly, no.
The UAW is striking for merely a moral victory. No real gains are expected, no improved benefits or conditions, and certainly no increase in living standards of UAW members. Yet, the UAW will end the strike without achieving anything real, pat themselves on the back and install another dues increase to pay for the another failed election in the Democrats party.
Union goons and leaders are prone to telling the rank and file that the reason their wages and benefits keep shrinking is because they, the rank and file, just don’t understand the economic situation and how things have changes. Sadly, the rank and file understand all too clearly the politics of economic and political power and money.
When the UAW has settled this strike and screwed their members again, perhaps the paying members of unions and realize that the consuming members of unions can’t help them in the same old way. Maybe then real labor revitalization can begin.
John