Monday, September 24, 2007

Reports have UAW members at General Motors walking out. The UAW web site is currently down because of heavy traffic. Here's an article from the most recent Labor Notes, a magazine with whom i often disagree, (i.e., do AFSCME officials really have any leg to stand on when they bash SEIU?) on some of the issues that members have had with these negotiations.

Edit: From the AP report:

Worker Anita Ahrens burst into tears as hundreds of United Auto Workers
streamed out of a GM plant in Janesville, Wis.
"Oh my God, here they come,"
said Ahrens, 39. "This is unreal."
Ahrens has seven years at the plant,
where she works nights installing speakers in sport utility vehicles. She waited
outside the building Monday for her husband, Ron Ahrens, who has worked there
for 21 years.
The couple has three children, including a college freshman,
and Ahrens worried about how they would pay their bills.
"This is horrible,
but we're die-hard union, so we have to," Ahrens said. "We got a mortgage, two
car payments and tons of freaking bills."

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