In this era of escalating fuel prices, unheard of numbers of truck repossession and a stagnant freight base, some people just don’t get it.
From the AP and The Trucker comes the headline story of
Teamsters picket Washington-based trucking company
AUBURN, Wash. — Picketers are carrying Teamsters strike signs outside Oak Harbor Freight operations in the Pacific Northwest.
Oak Harbor Freight lines, with 1300 employees, of which almost half are Teamsters (550) walked yesterday after talks between management and labor came to an impasse’.
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DETROIT — The tentative contract between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers would allow GM to close a plant each in Michigan and Indiana and possibly shut down several other facilities, according to a detailed copy of the agreement.
The moves are the downside of job security pledges that the UAW won in the negotiations, including commitments for new products at 16 plants. About 74,000 hourly GM workers will vote on the pact starting this week, with a final tally to be done by Oct. 10.
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Editors Note: We’ll have to wait another four years before the UAW members can blame Mexico for the loss of jobs and closure of plants in the United States. And doesn’t it make you proud to know these patriotic Americans are walking the picket line for mom, apple pie and the American way. As this photo, which you will not see published in the U.S. illustrates, the attitude of the UAW workers towards the American consumer and his employer. Just gives me the warm fuzzies to be an American.
General Motors and the United Auto Workers agreed to a new contract early Wednesday, ending a two-day nationwide strike with a watershed deal that establishes a new union-managed trust fund, funded by GM,for retiree health care but does not include wage hikes.
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