Detroit water workers denounce demands for concessions

[ctsnowman]

By Kevin Martinez
30 July 2014
Workers from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) voted on a contract Tuesday that would open the door to privatization and mass layoffs as well as the elimination of basic job protections and benefits. The attack on DWSD workers occurs as tens of thousands of working class and poor households are facing the shut off of water service.
The attacks on workers are part of the overall plan to bankrupt the city of Detroit under unelected manager Kevyn Orr on behalf of the banks and corporations. Orr has the direct support of Republican Governor Rick Snyder and Democratic President Barack Obama who insist that workers pay with their pensions, health benefits, and jobs for the bankruptcy that they did not create. It is estimated that 81 percent of the workers at the DWSD will lose their jobs under the current schemes.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/detr-j30.html

[Demeter]

1. It is a crime scene in Detroit

And Snyder is the Kingpin.

[historylovr]

2. This is outrageous.

Detroit needs aid, now.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Yeah. And they should take that aid from the profits......

of the banks that own the paper over Detroit's finances. First forgive the debt that the banks conned the gullible Detroit officials into, then expropriate some of those profits made by those debts and give it back to Detroit. That would be a good start.

Fucking bastards.

[historylovr]

5. Amen. nt

[yallerdawg]

4. Why do Republicans always get it backwards?

The job creators are the consumers/customers/residents. The workers!

The elites will get rich from privatization and profiteering. The "problem" will go away. Along with all the consumers/customers/residents -- workers.

Then the private utility can file for bankruptcy, and the public will again pay for it!

All that will be left are the elites, their new small economy -- and all gone will be the vestiges of the old American dream.

[TheKentuckian]

6. The people are just being bled dry, fucking vampires

[ctsnowman]

7. We are in the end

stages of empire and the looting will continue.