After listening to Bob Seger and thinking and thinking about American history why hasn't Chrysler gone to path with General Motors

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I am once again sorry for the rant.
And for the politics.
This is my life. I have been watching our industries and our jobs get offshored for forty years now.
All while the pig headed old farts do everything they can to keep people they dont approve of out of the trades and the unions by beating them down with initiation tests and harrasment and hazing.
Then they ***** about union membership being down.
Then they ***** because they have no money and no power.
And the various states have passed "Right to work" laws.
********. All ********.
A union hall is not a clubhouse for you and your old beer drinking buddies to sit around and guzzle beer while calling each other "brother" while excluding everybody else who didnt meet your preconcieved social standards.
That is how all of the union busting laws passed.
A union lives off of the mass of its people and the voting power and the strike power of that mass of people.
For a union to be effective it has to be always expanding and growing its membership.
That is union organising basic stuff.
The whole friggen idea is the power of the workers.
That is how you influence politics
So before you start blaming it all on young people and wonder why nobody is joining.
You better start thinking about why they dont want to join.
I think a whole lot of you boys forgot about teamsters 101.
Dont **** on the doorstep to your shop.
 

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I was in IAMAW on a government contract for about 6 years, and how good the union was depended on who we elected to leadership. We didn't have any initiations or harrasment. We had a local president who was awesome, and the company grudgingly liked him. We had a coworker who wasn't performing and was being a pain in the butt to us and management. He took her aside and told her to shape up or the union couldn't defend her. She didn't shape up, and the company did the paperwork correctly and fired her. None of us shed a tear.

Then he retired from the presidency because it was a lot of work. Soon after the company lost the contract to another company that bid it at a loss to get their foot in the door. The new company laid off half the shop and the new president was too stupid to do anything other than concede. I lost my job.

I'd worked nights my entire time at the company, and the union meetings were always held during my shift, so I didn't participate much. As much as I blame the idiot we had as president, what did I do to make the union better? Nothing. Fortunately I landed on my feet and went into civil service.
 
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