UAW Says Anti-Union Automakers Violate Human Rights

[Big Don]

UAW Says Anti-Union Automakers Violate Human Rights

By Keith Naughton - Jan 12, 2011 Bloomberg EXCERPT:
United Auto Workers President Bob King said the union will label companies as human-rights violators if they disrupt efforts to organize workers.
“If a company makes the bad business decision to engage in anti-union activity, suppress the rights of freedom of speech and assembly, we will launch a global campaign to brand that company a human-rights violator,” King said today during a speech in Detroit. “We do not want to fight, but we will not run from a fight.”
King, 64, elected president of the union in June, is seeking to organize the U.S. factories of Asian and German automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Daimler AG. King has said he expects to organize at least one non-union automaker this year and today added that he has begun “preliminary discussions” with some of them. He declined to identify which companies or how many.
“We just have to convince them that we’re not the evil empire,” King told reporters following his speech at the Automotive News World Congress.

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He declined to identify which companies or how many.

Yeah, of course he did. Because secrecy is vital, except, well, CARD CHECK.

“We just have to convince them that we’re not the evil empire,” King told reporters following his speech at the Automotive News World Congress.

A good start would be not acting like one, then...
Is it any surprise unions overwhelmingly support democrats? The same tactics are used by both, demonize your opponent by making ridiculous claims about taking food from the elderly (Democrats) and/or not paying a "fair" wage (unions).

 

[ballen0351]

They do such a fine job with GM why not give them a crack at the other auto makers.

 

[David43515]

I come from a UAW family, and there`s no denying that they did some great and important things in the past. But they did alot that hurt the workers and the auto companies in order to consolidate their own power too. They should have gone the way of the buffalo long ago, and would have if Obama hadn`t given them GM.

 

[ballen0351]

I come from a UAW family, and there`s no denying that they did some great and important things in the past. But they did alot that hurt the workers and the auto companies in order to consolidate their own power too. They should have gone the way of the buffalo long ago, and would have if Obama hadn`t given them GM.

No doubt the unions served a purpose in the past but now they do much more harm then good. In my opinon they are the #1 reason jobs started going overseas. They have driven wages and benefits beyond fair market value.