Autoblog

Tina @ Mar 11th 2008 8:56AM

I have a few points that I would like to make here. As one of the laid off workers at a GM plant, I am still in support of the UAW workers. (I am not UAW). If I was a retiree and they were trying to take away my health care I would hope the union that I belonged to would do everything in its power to insure that I kept the benefits I worked my whole adult life for. These men and women retired on the notion and contract that they would have health care in their senior years. I am sure that all of you that have made your comments about the unions being in the wrong have not taken the time to think about all that they have done for you. Maybe not directly, but indirectly as well. Who do you think made it so that you are working in a safe environment and that you have benefits and pay that is at the level that it is? Think about China and other countries that use child labor and if their workers get hurt the loose their jobs. Think about the casualty rate in these other countries. We do not have to deal with this in the USA not because of the goodness of the companies but because of what our fathers and grandfathers did in their unions. Insead of bashing what they did for us, lets take a moment to thank them and support what they are trying to do today. I do understand that there are bad things that go on in the unions. I am not nieve, but for the most part as it is in this case, what they are doing is for the better of the membership, the retirees and everyone else that works at American Axle. Yes, even the saleried workers.