Seems like everyone here's is dead set against unions. If that's the case then i can understand your position to some extent. But if you've have never been in a union it seems to me that your opinion in this matter is based on your limited understanding about the issue's.

No I'm not with the UAW but it only seems fair to me to find out why there is a strike from the unions perspective before taking a firm position pro or con.

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No Quick, we're against the UAW union, not unions in general. I think this thread been very specific to union work as it pertains to automobile manufacturing. Why? Well..a plumbers union strike against a business in the US still leaves you with plenty of other US plumbers, however, a UAW strike leaves you nothing but imports.

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It's very simple:

If you are in favor of free market capitalism, then you are in favor of allowing unions to exist and to negotiate whatever terms they want to try to negotiate. Nobody forces the corporations to agree to certain terms.

If the corporations want to hire workers outside the union, then they can. Likewise, if the unions want to demand that the corporations only hire union workers, then that is their right as well. If the corporations agree to such terms, then they do. If not, then they don't. If they want, they can tell the unions to get lost. And if the unions don't like it, then they can go on strike.

But if you are in favor of "right to work" laws which make it illegal for a union to negotiate those terms into their contract, then you are not in favor of a free market. That is called "fascism" or "corporatism".

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time posting in political threads in the lounge...

I believe i understand the destinction. However the tone in posts 3#, #4, #7 were directed at unions generally. But that's ok no problem with that.

My position remains the same and that is no matter what union it is, it is important to have the facts from both side before one decides that the union is at fault for the strike. That's all i'm saying.

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Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

What's interesting is that the article from the Detroit paper didn't say what the walkout was based on.

The article in the CNN link didn't either. One even said that both sides were very close to reaching an agreement.

Very strange...

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Exactly:

It would be nice to know what they are in dis-agreement about.

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Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

So, based on the word that the two sides were close to an agreement just prior to the walkout, and the fact that it lasted, what? 23.5 hours? Makes me wonder if the walkout was staged by the union to "prove" that they are "serious" about their position.

Stupid is as stupid does...

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Or, if there must be injustice, let it be in my favor.

Reynold's Wrap: it's not just for hats anymore.

They're back....

Now start firing them.

Can't wait to watch them piss away the healthcare trust and then ask the govt. for help

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Why are these US companies outsourcing American jobs...oh yeah..that's why.

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