Hey fellow UAW members, did you hear our fearless leader on the Rachel Maddow show tonight. What the hell!!! He spent most of the interview defending the criminal management of the big three! And than he goes on to describe the current products of the U.S. auto industry as if they represented the green technology of the future! WHAT!!! My god, no wonder our union is in such trouble. Compare Mr. Gettelfinger’s lame defense of the bosses with Michael Moore’s righteous indignation which I discussed in my last post. Come on man! Don’t you see by now that sucking up to management is not going to save the U.S. auto worker. You should be demanding that the Congress pass a bailout that includes those guys complete removal. Hell, you should be asking for the plants to be turned over to the workers, but I am not holding my breath on that one. Come on, get a freaking backbone for once. First you lay-down and let management walk all over the union in the last round on contract negotiations, than y...

Leave it to Michael Moore to put the eminent demise of the U.S. Auto industry and the general economic crisis in general in the proper context. On Larry King Live tonight, Moore responded with total disgust to the sight of the CEO’s of the big three U.S. auto makers begging Congress for bailout funds… “What we are seeing here right now, with them, with the banks, we seeing the end of capitalism, the end of capitalism as we know it, and I say good riddance. It hasn’t help the people or the planet.” While Michael’s forecast of the collapse of capitalism might be a bit premature, you can’t but totally agree with the sentiment of his words. Moore also has some interesting advice for the Congress as they consider a bailout for the big three. In particular I like his suggestion that the factories be re-focused on building mass transit vehicles. Moore comes the closest that I have seen yet in calling for the real short term answer to the auto industry – nationalization and workers control. He...

After years of concessions and job cuts, GM, despite it’s enormous profits (and don’t be fooled – they are enormous) still wants to extract more wealth from the sweat and tears of its workers. IT IS TIME TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! No more concessions to multi-billon dollar multi-national corporations. Stop this race to the bottom. Defend the hard won gains of manufacturing workers in the United States and around the world. Its corporate mis-management that is the ultimate source of U.S. automakers woes, so why do the workers always pay the price, while the bosses are offered golden parachutes. Its time the bosses got a lead boot in the ass instead! As a proud member myself of UAW Local 1980 – the National Writers Union, I call on all working people to aid and assist in whatever ways possible our brothers and sisters at GM. Here is audio of UAW president Ron Gettelfinger, explaining the reasons for the strike at a Press conference on Monday (the original audio and a transcript can be foun...