The UAW strike on American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. is nearly two weeks old.

It was simply a terrible time to strike. Who advises the UAW? Oil at $110 a barrel. Many
people working $8 per hour jobs and losing all
benefits. Keep negotiating. Keep working.
The company will never forget your disloyalty
and callousness and you will regret this greatly.
You are not sympathetic figures to america. You
are making huge financial trouble to companies all
over america with this nonsense and you will lose.

i work for a plant that supply's american axel with some of ther parts,.....yea we are taking a big hit,.how long is this going to be going on?......

This strike is the apocalypse of American Axle in the U.S.

The Mexico plants are PPAP'ing all of the axles to the various GM Plants. That is a signal that all of the production will be coming out of Guanajuato.

Truckin wrote:

This strike is the apocalypse of American Axle in the U.S.
The Mexico plants are PPAP'ing all of the axles to the various GM Plants. That is a signal that all of the production will be coming out of Guanajuato.

...TIS SAD...BUT...Is'...agree....eh. ..

hey you union workers i work for a none union factory no laYOFFS HERE BUT IF WE HAD A UNION ARE JOBS would be gone to mexico.

Not My Fight wrote:

3) If you want to make the big bucks start a business. The AUW wants you to believe that you’re weak and need them. You’re not. You’re strong. Believe that, work harder than you ever have, take some risks and you can be one of the people that the weak and oppressed union workers whine about…..

Not My Fight, You said it very well!! If the union fools think they can do better- let them start a business. This would be interesting to know if the people in highly unionized states have a lower entrepreneurial spirit than those in lower unionized states. I would think the union would drill the thought of you doing something on your own and succeeding, out of your head!!

If I’m wrong, please show me the statistics,….I could be.

mnsparky wrote:

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Not My Fight, You said it very well!! If the union fools think they can do better- let them start a business. This would be interesting to know if the people in highly unionized states have a lower entrepreneurial spirit than those in lower unionized states. I would think the union would drill the thought of you doing something on your own and succeeding, out of your head!!
If I’m wrong, please show me the statistics,….I could be.

Since you have no data to back up your opinion, I'm not certain anyone is bound by logic to demonstrate your assertion is wrong by finding their own statistics.

My neighbor, who is a union millwright, operated a small shop from his garage rebuilding alternators and starters for automobiles until the components became throw away items for repairs.

A good number of unionized firefighters who work 24 hours, and then get three or four days off before their next shift operate businesses in their free time.

Several of my unionized acquaintances have quit their jobs to open their own businesses after saving their wages as a nest egg.

And, when union jobs are bought out with negotiated settlements, the news is filled with stories of how the recipients have transitioned from those jobs by opening their own service oriented businesses.

Now, maybe you can address these anecdotal observations with some of your own which indicate that union laborers are less ambitious than non-union laborers.

Economically, keeping wages on a par with production increases assures that the goods created with that productivity can be bought by the workers who create them.

US wages have not kept up with production increases by laborers since the late 1980s in part due to policies initiated in the Reagan era and continuing to today which diminish the opportunity for workers to collectively bargain for their services in exchange for increased productivity.