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UAW’s King Admits Union Will Fall Without Foreign Transplants

Union boss admits unionizing foreign-owned auto plants is about saving the UAW

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 18th, 2011 at 02:15 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

After all the hyperbole pouring out from the UAW about “fair elections” and companies being “human rights violators” unless they agree to the UAW’s campaign to unionize them, the UAW’s Bob King finally admitted the truth.

According to the Detroit News [emphasis added]:

United Auto Workers President Bob King told members tonight the union’s very survival is at stake in its efforts to organize foreign workers — and said it has limited options in contract talks with Detroit’s Big Three.

“If we don’t organize these transnationals, I don’t think there’s a long term future for the UAW — I really don’t,” King told more than 1,000 members and retirees at the opening of a four-day political action conference in Washington.

So, the campaign to unionize the workers at the foreign automakers isn’t really about helping those workers, Mr. King? It’s more about saving the UAW, isn’t it?

It appears the UAW needs those workers more than those workers need the UAW.

Call the M&A people in, because there’s probably going to be some shopping for a union merger going on in the AFL-CIO’s hallways sometime soon.

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  • rbdwiggins

    The UAW must find new companies to rape exploit and new sources of revenue to siphon, or it’s likely to implode under the weight of its own greed, largess and near criminal behavior.

    The modern-day labor union serves no useful purpose, nor provides any positive benefit to American society.

  • NeoKong

    They need to squeeze another ten or fifteen years out of it so they can retire too and let someone else take the fall when the system collapses. Or should I say when the system collapses…. again. The guys who have been in for years would never be satisfied with the pay and benefits they expect the newer members to take and the retirees need new blood to pay for their benefits.

  • renny

    because, altho’ I have savings, if I had to use the principal, I could maybe last 5 years, and I am sure that is true of millions who planned their elderly lives in a way they thought was responsible and now it turns out we were duped by giant Ponzi schemes endorsed by gov’t's.

    Otherwise, I will be selling my house for whatever it brings and moving into my son’s basement and working into my 70s and 80s at Sears because they give employee discounts and sell everything.

    I can never work full time again. The opportunities for someone passed retirement age are limited to just above zero. So, when you talk of cutting things off and hoping localities and states are forced to declare bankruptcies, you are looking at the decimation of MILLIONS of people’s abilities to support themselves.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport
    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      Many will find that they will be unable to retire

      I count myself in the group that will not retire, despite 20 or more years to go–simply because I don’t want to be idle.

      However, from a demographic standpoint,I do believe there will be work available. As the Baby Boom ages, there will not be enough people in the workforce to accommodate the needs that our society demands.

      BTW: I’m not sure where you saw the “hope”for localities and states to declare bankruptcy. What you have seen is an adamant opposition to bailing out states and municipalities bailing out fiscally irresponsible entities (and people for that matter).

  • itrytobenice

    So, the campaign to unionize the workers at the foreign automakers isn