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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 09:38:36 AM MST
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| The United Auto Workers are striking General Motors. Trapper John explains why this matters. The UAW as much as anybody built the American middle-class. In the coming days, right-wing talking heads will dismiss the strikers, saying they need to just accept pay cuts, while the heart of the issue in the short-term is really health care. It's a national problem, not a Big Three problem, and not a UAW problem.
One of the biggest lies of the modern era is that the UAW with its health care demands is responsible for the woes of American car companies. The reality is that the UAW actually sought originally to keep that burden off the car manufacturers and spread it across all employers -- with health care and pension plans that weren't dependent on or tied to a single firm. It was the manufacturers who opposed that thinking and created the employer-driven health care system that plagues the companies today.
Go read Trapper John's whole piece. |
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