Deal to End American Axle Strike Could Close Tonawanda Plant

Sad to strike yourself out of a job.

GREAT DEAL: The company gives you an $11.00 dollar an hour cut and closes your plant...The Real Truth is they get the cheap wage then open the axle plant on Delavan Ave........

US automakers will be the next extinct animal. Unions and management need to both make provisons or everyone in this industry may be heading to unemployment. Now that is the American dream isn't it.

fred wrote:

Sad to strike yourself out of a job.

Some money is better then no money. No college degree and complaining about $17/hr? Try not living outside your means and you should be able to make $35k a year work.

thanks sen. clinton for promising us 20,000 jobs a few years ago

Steve wrote:

<quoted text>Some money is better then no money. No college degree and complaining about $17/hr? Try not living outside your means and you should be able to make $35k a year work.

This is the same like the guys from Delphy, most of them have no education but want to make 25.00 or more an hour, what a joke, most of them got in through refferals from relative without anything to show for, their greed got them what they deserve. then they all can see that $ 17 anhout is better than 7,50

sam4ob wrote:

thanks sen. clinton for promising us 20,000 jobs a few years ago

Don't worry when she is president everyone in america will be with out a job,not just these poor Bast--ds.She is also selling Ice in alaska to anyone willing to buy it as well!!!!!No thanks I take war vet anyday!!!!!!

JIMBO wrote:

<quoted text>Don't worry when she is president everyone in america will be with out a job,not just these poor Bast--ds.She is also selling Ice in alaska to anyone willing to buy it as well!!!!!No thanks I take war vet anyday!!!!!!

thanks to George W the military is hiring like crazy

sam4ob wrote:

thanks sen. clinton for promising us 20,000 jobs a few years ago

While I agree with this comment she has not brought anythin to this area, she has nothing to do with this situation. The wheels were set in motion years ago consumer demand for a lower cost better running automobile is the root cause. There are Honda plants in Ohio that are no union and employee US citizens that do not have problems like US automotive makers have.

So, UAW girl and all the others, was the strike worth it? I honestly hope you guys heeded the warnings and banked some money.

Will they have to start paying for medical benefits and contributing something towards their retirement?

Steve wrote:

<quoted text>Some money is better then no money. No college degree and complaining about $17/hr? Try not living outside your means and you should be able to make $35k a year work.

W H A T ?? my comment was, to bad they striked themselves out of a job with the plant closing now doesn't really matter how much they made a hour..

this was so predictable!

Steve wrote:

<quoted text>While I agree with this comment she has not brought anythin to this area, she has nothing to do with this situation. The wheels were set in motion years ago consumer demand for a lower cost better running automobile is the root cause. There are Honda plants in Ohio that are no union and employee US citizens that do not have problems like US automotive makers have.

lets add Nissan ,Toyota ,Kawasaki and many other foreign companys seem to be investing their future in this country and domestic companys try to tear it apart, time to see the big picture people

Just like I thought...the union allowed the closure of the axle plant in Buffalo so it was just a matter of time befor the Union threw you guys under the bus...but dont feel bad the other plants are probably not to far behind you..its all apart of Richards big plan...Its really hard to feel bad for you guys when nobody cared when we go tossed under the bus cuz all the MEMBERS have the " OH WELL..AT LEAST ITS NOT OUR PLANT"attitude...nobody stood up for us when they shut our plant down which should have been a strikable issue since we were promised new work to take us to 2012...which was in the contract...if u guys were smart u would vote no on the contract cuz your plants will be gone soon anyway...and tp MVO ...many autoworkers have college degrees ..your just jealous cuz you didnt get a job there or you dont make the same $$$ or benefits for the crap job u have

fred wrote:

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W H A T ?? my comment was, to bad they striked themselves out of a job with the plant closing now doesn't really matter how much they made a hour..

I was not coing after you just adding to it. I agree with you.

hillbilly wrote:

<quoted text>lets add Nissan ,Toyota ,Kawasaki and many other foreign companys seem to be investing their future in this country and domestic companys try to tear it apart, time to see the big picture people

They cannot. The union mentality has been planted and driven home so hard in some people they will alway think big corporations are out to screw them. We are in a world market know that we cannot compete in.

hillbilly wrote:

<quoted text>lets add Nissan ,Toyota ,Kawasaki and many other foreign companys seem to be investing their future in this country and domestic companys try to tear it apart, time to see the big picture people

The wages at Toyota in the US plant are high. You become aware of that on the sticker price.

MVO wrote:

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This is the same like the guys from Delphy, most of them have no education but want to make 25.00 or more an hour, what a joke, most of them got in through refferals from relative without anything to show for, their greed got them what they deserve. then they all can see that $ 17 anhout is better than 7,50

Some of these people bust their butts and earn their money. Education doesn't mean high wages all the time.

Nightmare wrote:

Just like I thought...the union allowed the closure of the axle plant in Buffalo so it was just a matter of time befor the Union threw you guys under the bus...but dont feel bad the other plants are probably not to far behind you..its all apart of Richards big plan...Its really hard to feel bad for you guys when nobody cared when we go tossed under the bus cuz all the MEMBERS have the " OH WELL..AT LEAST ITS NOT OUR PLANT"attitude...nobody stood up for us when they shut our plant down which should have been a strikable issue since we were promised new work to take us to 2012...which was in the contract...if u guys were smart u would vote no on the contract cuz your plants will be gone soon anyway...and tp MVO ...many autoworkers have college degrees ..your just jealous cuz you didnt get a job there or you dont make the same $$$ or benefits for the crap job u have

Actully I'm a Controller for a manufacturing firm that has a strong union I make about $85k a year with bonuses went to college got an MBA and have great benifits. Oh yeah I'm only 32. By the way I also paid my dues and work crap accounitng jobs for little money and lots of hours with no OT pay. But my Job is very secure so I don't see the jealousy in your comment.