Yep, it's union busting pure and simple, with some sour grapes tossed in

[1gobluedem]

Why are these GOP senators unhappy with auto aid?

Rescue opponents want more UAW sacrifices
BY TODD SPANGLER AND JUSTIN HYDE • FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF • DECEMBER 11, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, the UAW has spent more than $10 million to elect Democrats and defeat Republicans -- some of them the same GOP senators now being asked to rescue the domestic auto industry.

Those Republican senators, who may hold the key to getting the $14-billion lifeline to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC passed through Congress, are clamoring for deeper union concessions as a condition to any kind of support.

Read entire article here: http://www.freep.com/article/20081211/BUSINESS01/812110408

I love this, from Barney Frank, at the end:

"Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, said there appeared to be a double standard on the part of Republicans focusing on autoworkers' pay, when they voiced no similar concerns about employee wages or benefits before approving a $700-billion bailout for the financial industry.
"The average worker at AIG makes more money than an autoworker. The average worker at Citigroup ... makes more than an autoworker," Frank said Wednesday. "Does anybody remember Citigroup being told that as a condition of its money, they have to get no more than a community banker gets?""

[Kokonoe]

1. Its clear, its health care.

repukes want us to die, quicker the better.

[Occam Bandage]

2. DU, before the auto bailout:

"OMG THIS NEEDS TO PASS RIGHT NOW IF YOU DON'T AGREE YOU HATE WORKERS."

Du, after the auto bailout:
"WTF THIS IS JUST A HUGE GIVEAWAY TO CORPORATIONS AND ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE WORKERS."

[Kokonoe]

4. I think the its opposite

And the payback loan is still before approval.

Thank You, I still like your work.

[underpants]

3. Mitt calls it "restructuring"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4629956&mesg_id=4629956

[me b zola]

7. The republicans are all reading from the same script

Chapter 11,"restructuring" ....The only reason to push for chapter 11 is union busting.

[amborin]

5. it's the same old union-busting rethug activity they've always used

the rethugs have made it much harder for unions to organize

remember the 1947 Taft Hartley bill----the worst

but continuously, the rethugs try to harm unions and workers

[derby378]

6. Senator DeMint (repuke) called unions an "antiquated concept"

Said last night on NPR that, in order to remain competitive, America's automakers had to throw off "the shackles of unionism" or some bullshit like that.

[bvar22]

8. Shelby said that if American Workers want to have jobs,....

...they (American Workers) will have to compete in the "Global Marketplace".
That was the CHIEF objection LABOR had with the Free Trade deals of the 90's.
Shelby (and Free Trade Democrats) believe that the American Worker should be willing to work for and live on that same wages paid by a "State Owned" factory in Communist China.

Thanks, but No Thanks.


The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Translation:

"You'll work for one third of a grain of rice a week and you'll LIKE it, you lower class inferiors!"

[Romulox]

10. Anyone with a standard of living better than Alabama is GREEDY!

:sarcasm:

[TahitiNut]

11. Strangely, however, Shelby doesn't seem inclined to apply the same 'standards' to himself.

The Plantation mentality has Shelby in its grasp. He's a despicable POS.

[SeeHopeWin]

12. FUCK YOU SHELBY...FUCK YOU AND REAGANOMICS!

I have had it with these people.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4631090

[BrklynLiberal]

13. K&R