Four Unions Are Uniting Against A BMW Outsourcing Attempt

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1462381

7/25/2011

BMW is uniting four unions as it outsources some union jobs. Jersse Russell reports.

Four unions spanning the Atlantic have come together in solidarity to protest plans by BMW to start outsourcing jobs at a distribution center in Ontario, California. Last Thursday members of the Teamsters, International Longshoremen’s Association, the United Auto Workers, and United Kingdom’s Unite the Union held rallies throughout their countries calling on BMW to preserve the 100 middle-class jobs. The plan is to shut down the facility, fire the current employees, and re-open it the following day with outsourced and inexperienced employees. The unions are uniting to ask the company to postpone the plan for three months so a “win-win alternative” can be developed. The workers at the Ontario plant are represented by the Teamsters, but the ILA and UAW have both experienced similar tactics employed by BMW in the last two years. Last quarter the luxury automaker saw its highest earnings in 95 years as well as being one of a number of foreign automakers to receive billions under the Bush Administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Tariffs on imports need to increase vertiginously for any company manufacturing outside

There will continue to be a huge shortage of jobs as long as this isn't done.

[patrice]

2. God, it does my heart good to hear that sort of thing.

I've known thousands of men, so unhappy, so oppressed. This is going to be a good thing!

he, he . . . follow Viagara stocks and watch for some decline in that market!