Monday, November 24, 2008

Shame on you, CNN

CNN currently has an article on their homepage that is a supposed
human-interest piece about the automaker bailout.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/24/gm.uaw.family/index.html

These economic difficulties certainly affect the rank and file workers
but was it necessary to turn the article into a UAW feel-good promo,
especially when the monopoly that the UAW holds has helped to cause
this mess?

A lot of the blame rests on terrible management decisions, but
unreasonable union contracts only make things worse. We need to stop
allowing unions to bargain industry-wide.

Let's boot the execs AND the union leaders. Let the workers run the
union as what it was supposed to be...a collective bargaining group
for the employees of a single company. Force the union to bargain on a
company-by-company basis.

-Blogged from my iPhone

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5 comments:

  1. William HessianNovember 26, 2008 at 12:19 AM

    i agree with booting the execs and the union leaders. however, new people will become execs and union leaders, and for some reason our system seems to be ripe with unjust unlawful leaders.

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