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Re: GM Flint strike--4 hour days?

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From: Richard Berkeley
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
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Richard wrote:

> If a worker can handle an eight hour workload in a four hour work schedule
> then someone is getting cheated. I remember back in the eighties when there
> was a popular and semi-profitable retail chain here where the union workers
> were making three times as much as the non-union workers in other similar
> retail outlets. These union workers striked for more pay, more benefits and
> less work. The retail chains went out of business and the union workers were
> without a job.
>
> GM workers are among the highest paid laborers. Their greed and laziness
> have blinded their sight to the good positions they have. If they don't open
> their eyes GM should move out and let this place rot like Detroit.

And people wonder why GM cars are getting more and more expensive.  If these
assholes in GM continue to strike, more and more jobs will definitely go down to
Mexico or Canada.  They'll whine about that too, but screw them!

They are really blackmailing GM.  GM used to be the greatest.

Richard
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Subject: Re: GM Flint strike--4 hour days?
Date: 1998/07/12
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