At this rate, there won't be a single U.S. automaker left. Or GM and Ford will get fed up and do what other industry have done. Move most of the work overseas or to Mexico.
Thank you UAW.
Good news. Pretty soon, you'll have even cheaper homes in the cities where UAW dominates. But then again, who wants to live in those cities.
OUISVILLE. Ky. — Ford workers who belong to the United Auto Workers are on edge after the union called a national strike against GM Monday.
"If there's anything gonna happen, it will be in the next three days," Ford worker Brad Seward said.Local officials had confirmed that UAW negotiations with GM would serve as a blueprint for Ford's UAW contract, and a recent union vote favored a strike at local Ford plants as a last resort.Contract talks between the United Auto Workers and General Motors are scheduled to resume Tuesday morning. But, in the mean time, local union officials said Ford employees have been racing to the phones to find out if they will strike.Rumors started at the Kentucky Truck Plant and Louisville Assembly Plant that a workers there could strike within three days. Local 862 President Rocky Comito said the GM strike should have no effect on local Ford workers."The agreement with UAW and Ford is extend the contract indefinitely," Comito said. "However, if talks break down, we're going to give you a three day notice before we go out. So, people are thinking since GM went out automatically our clock started running."Some 73,000 union members who work at about 80 U.S. Facilities for the nation's largest automaker walked out of GM plants Monday.UAW officials said job security is the number one unresolved issue.The striking workers want GM to promise that future cars and trucks will be built at U.S. plants, preserving union jobs.It's the first nationwide strike against GM in 37 years. Ford, GM and Chrysler UAW workers have been without contracts for 10 days.
