dailykos.com - 12/22/2008
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I spent the summer of 1999 working for the UAW legal department. It was the best job that a union-oriented first-year law student could ask for: great bosses, co-workers who shared your values, and interesting work. But most importantly, there was a pervading sense that you were -- in ...
latimes.com - 12/18/2008
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latimes.com —
The foreign nonunion auto companies located in the
South have a plan to reduce wages and benefits
at their factories in the United States. And to do it, they need to destroy the United Auto Workers. Last week, Senate Republicans from some Southern ...
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UAW busting, Southern style - Los Angeles Times
michellemalkin.com - 12/19/2008
detnews.com - 12/16/2008
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detnews.com —
He says union was 'set up'; Corker says
he couldn't get a date for union to take
pay cuts. Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News Union Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and Senate Republicans from the South spent Friday blaming each other for killing ...
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Gettelfinger blasts GOP's tactics | detnews.com | The ...
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The UAW Made The Middle-Class...
Upper Left —
…sez Trapper John, and makes the case. I'm sold.
Progressive Breakfast: Wages Falling, Jobs Vanishing, Econ Package Growing
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... DailyKos' Trapper John: "the UAW made America work the way we want it to work. And while the union has undoubtedly also made mistakes throughout its history, you'd be hard-pressed as progressives to identify an institution that has done more for working Americans of all stripes. So I support an a auto industry bailout, because I'd like to see us help the UAW keep making things: making cars, making a decent and dignified living for its members, and making change for all of us. God knows the union's done a helluva lot more for us than Goldman Sachs." (More ...
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