I drive a Ford F-250 at the moment and love it. I’m so proud of Ford for not agreeing to steal from me to survive while still putting out quality vehicles that I vowed never to own another GM or Chrysler car, ever again, new or used.

Now you bring word that the UAW is trying to flex their considerable muscle in this matter. While that bodes ill for Ford, it does not automatically follow that it bodes well for GM and Chrysler.

Toyota makes a nice truck. Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi make nice cars. They all employ Americans at several places from manufacturing, shipping, assembly and sales. This isn’t the 70’s where the bumper stickers about “Buying American” actually had some application.

Besides, if the UAW wants me to be concerned about them, they need to start by being concerned about me. They have failed abysmally in that regard. I wonder what their UAW members will eat when everyone is driving cars made by car companies that support America instead of demanding that Americans support the car companies?

to their plight. Americans have a natural understanding of fairness in the marketplace. Ford is not in a favorable position with the government, the UAW or their American competitors.

But the are in a favorable position with the American people. The folks give them credit for getting their balance sheets in order before the crisis hit. They get credits for not borrowing money from the taxpayers and for not getting in bed with the UAW.

I may not be able to buy a new car or truck for a while, but when I do it will be a Ford. And I would do what ever I could to help Ford in this fight.

Comrade Obama and his junta control the money in this Country and largely control the legal system. If Ford decides to duke it out with the UAW, and they have before but that was when people named Ford were in charge, they have to be prepared to weather a long strike in which they either break UAW’s strike by having workers in sufficient numbers abandon the strike and cross the picket line to go back to work, hire replacement workers, or begin a process of transferring work to their plants in right to work states where the UAW has less influence over the workers.

To do any of those things, they’re going to need a LOT of money and with the communists in charge of the banking system, they’re going to have one Helluva time getting any financing for anything, so it will all have to be paid for with cash reserves and divestitures. They’ll face a hostile NLRB that will rule against management in any unfair labor practice that is charged. They’ll likely face a hostile judiciary at the trial court level and probably at the Circuit court as well. If they’re right, the Company will prevail with the USSC as it is currently constituted but it can take two years or more to get to the USSC and vindicate your actions. Meanwhile you’re shut down and being harrassed by every federal agency that has any jurisdiction over you.

Caterpillar won their strike with UAW some years ago even in the face of a Democrat NLRB but it was a very different World in which they did it. Even though they broke the strike, they were not able to decertify UAW. Rest assured the Government would move Heaven and Earth to prevent an employer like Ford from decertifying UAW; that would clearly reveal the idol’s clay feet. God, I get excited just thinking about it. My first piece of advice to Ford management is that they need a plan and the money to get to January 2013, and if they look around and see that Comrade Obama is still President, they need an exit strategy for selling or shutting down the company or, at least, some way to deal with the Government confiscating the Company. If Ford is looking for a good LR Hack, I’m looking for a career capstone!

I’m going to be in the market for a new car in the next couple of years, my Honda is hitting 140K miles, and I do lots of miles every year. If Ford stands up to the UAW, they just moved up the list of companies who’s products I will be considering.

Besides the new Taurus SHO is the bomb.

It’s a real problem

Right now the UAW will profit enormously if they can drive Ford out, improving the marketability of GMC and Chrysler.

This is a place for the courts to step in and make lemonade (by squeezing the noggins of some real sour pusses.)

And just get the hell out of dodge…….

I would break ground on the new plants now, tell management to put their homes on the market and tell the UAW to go straight to hell. It’s way past time for the gloves to come off when dealing with these ignorant, worthless, brain-dead bastards.

It’s time that Ford stood up to the UAW. I for one won’t ever buy another GM or Chrysler vehicle, as long as they’re taking government money and under the control of Barry Motors. On the other hand, I’ll support Ford as long as they continue to put out a solid product. Nothing beats a Ford Truck. The public should get behind Ford, and not allow the Unions to bankrupt them also, so the government can come in and then the Unions under the messiah will get whatever they want. This cycle has got to stop or all will be under Barry and his union thugs control….

The reason they did not get sucked into the black hole of government bailout money is that the corporation had a seat at all of the politically correct tables, including the Tides Foundation. Ford was warned of the coming 2008 collapse and arranged their finances accordingly via strategic liquidation of assets.

Ford traveled with snakes, and crawled on their belly. Now they will act surprised that they’ve been bitten.

gubmint control of one or two health insurance plans won’t drive out the privately held insurance companies??? (pun intended)

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, er, I mean, what you kill makes you RICHER!

Why wouldn’t the UAW try to kill Ford? They killed GM and own a large 39% chunk of GM as a reward (89% if you include their partner the Government). Even “better” they now OWN Chrysler outright with 55%?

Seems to me to be a logical course of action, kill FORD then own it. Extortion pays very well when Uncle Sam finances it. Aren’t you glad that BILLIONS of your tax dollars were transferred to them?

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could have NO jobs! They could take Ford overseas and let those workers have NO jobs! There is alot that Ford could do but if I were Ford I would make those UNION workers have NO job to make my point!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy