IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS! GM STRIKE! TRUMP'S "GREAT ECONOMY"

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On edit: Bad headline was fixed at 6:28 AM MTZ

Nearly 50,000 UAW workers go on strike against GM, America's biggest automaker
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business
Updated 7:43 AM ET, Mon September 16, 2019


The union's 48,000 hourly workers walked out at 31 GM factories and 21 other facilities, spread across nine states, mostly in the center of the country. It's the largest strike by any union against any business since the last strike at GM in 2007.

The strike started at 11:59 pm Sunday night. The two sides did not formally meet Sunday after the union declared its intention to strike at a morning press conference, although union spokesman Brian Rothenberg said that the dialogue between the two sides was ongoing. A new meeting of the two sides is set for 10 a.m. Monday.

The union said that GM was putting profits ahead of employees who helped to turn the company around when it went through bankruptcy and federal bailout a decade ago.
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[Johnny2X2X]

1. I stand with the workers of this country

Every Democratic Candidate has an opportunity right now to firmly state who they stand with.

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2. One reason I got a communications degree and several media jobs:

A friend told me that there were great-paying jobs at a Jim Walter coal mine. We drove to the site where dozens of men were standing in front of a member of company management.

Not long after arriving, he pointed at a few people, saying "I want you, you and you" and one of them was me! Wow! about $20. an hour straight time, with all the overtime I wanted, including triple-time on weekends and holidays, back when twenty bucks had REAL buying power.

I had been working there a couple of months: never late; never hung-over; never confrontational with anyone.

But, even with UNM safety standards in place, it was a dangerous job. In West Virginia, where union standards were not in place, media reported, accidental deaths had occurred on several occasions. And those workers made FAR less money than us.

One day, after my shift, I jokingly asked the foreman (a company employee) "How can I work my way out of this hole?"

He said, "Follow me to the office, and I'll show you how."

When we got to his office (a trailer) he said, "Sign these papers," and without reading them, my foolish young ass signed them!

Then, he said, "Your Fired," faster than Trump did on The Apprentice.

I went to a bar, where other Union Workers hung out after work and told others I had just been fired!

A Union leader, approached and told me that since the company had hired me straight off the street, Jim Walter corporation had forgone their privilege of a three month probationary period, before I could join the UMW.

Then, he asked, "Did you sign anything?" I said, "Yes;" and he replied, "We cannot help you because the papers will claim that you resigned from the company and the union."

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3. K&R

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4. Trump's America does not consider Union workers as workers

It will be spun that they are striking to spite him.

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5. Do you remember what Reagan did when Air Traffic Controllers went on strike?

Those very important workers - who prevented mid-air collisions of airliners - wanted less hours, for safety reasons.

The other GOP movie/ TV star president fired all the experienced air-traffic controllers!

Apparently, TV personalities with right-wing, political agendas are easier to elect then less-known political figures with law degrees and political experience, which does not speak well of voters in the USA.