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Southeast Iowa | About six months ago we got a magazine in the mail by mistake; one that should have gone to the same address # just one mile north of us. It was the UAW Monthly magazine, and when I read it I could hardly believe what I was seeing. It was like reading a magazine from a communist country where every article was about how the rich are finding every way possible to browbeat the poor workers. There was article after article, literally praising the bammacommie as their Socialist Worker's Messiah. There were also articles about "How we got this." and "How we got that." as a result of threatening businesses with crippling strikes. NOBODY should have to work for less than it takes to live, but sometimes I think we've gone way overboard on wages and benefits in some of our key industries. It was just after I read the magazine that I took a tour of the Studebaker museum in South Bend, Indiana. Studebaker failed to stand up to the unions and it eventually bankrupted the company. I've always wondered why the UAW unions could so easily justify beating up on company trucks and equipment during a strike, but never seemed to do the same kind of damage to a union brother's Toyota sitting out in the parking lot? Where were/are the "Buy American Cars" commercials sponsored by the UAW? Where were/are the union-sponsored commercials bum-kicking cheap and crappy foreign goods? When Maytag went out on strike in Newton IA, you JUST KNEW what the result was going to be. Higher wages for a few months and then the plant goes to Meh-he-ko.... forever. | |
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Local jobs lost.
