I wonder what Percentage of UAW workers vote Republican?

[blueinindiana]

I work in a union shop (not UAW) and the vast majority of whom vote Republican.

Its all about guns, taxes and (discrimination disguised as religion) for them.

I just wonder about UAW members.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I doubt that.

[Jack Bone]

2. trust me..as a Hoosier UAW worker..I know many..nt

[blueinindiana]

3. I am hoosier too and most white union members vote Republican.

At least in this state.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Sounds like an Indy thing

I'm ex-UAW in New England (among others including Locomotive Engineers, Teamsters)and wouldn't have voted to have my union busted by rethugs.

Glad I'm not out there.

[blueinindiana]

7. The Angry White Man is alive in well Indiana. NT

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He's angry at the wrong people.

Any rank and file worker that thinks rethugs are going to improve their lot in life is dreaming.

Quite the contrary.

[blueinindiana]

10. In the 80's

White people here bought-into Reagan's lies that black welfare queens and affirmative action caused their economic woes and now it has shifted to hispanics.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. I can believe it. Sadly. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

28. They have swallowed the republicon kool-aid propaganda whole hog

for years and years, 'believing' the BS the republicon propaganda puppets spewed through the republicon-owned corporate media.

Now they must pay the price for failing to discern.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Yeah. I work in a non-UAW union shop as well and there are some people who don't get it.

They have it really good, in a state where you can be fired without cause, the union is there to protect them and their livelihood, but they often seem to vote against their own interests and spout off with right wing talking points.

I heard one woman at work last week saying that it was the UAWs fault that the loan was blocked in the senate because they UAW wouldn't budge and then another person at the table started spouting the "70 dollars an hour" thing.

I very nicely pointed out their errors, but you wonder how much sway FOX news has over the populace when you hear union members bashing another union.

[blueinindiana]

5. I think most our just jealous self centered assholes who

think if somehow someone else gets their pay cut they will somehow get cheaper car or a pay raise and that just does not happen.

God I hate these people!

[Liberal Veteran]

14. I think it is a point of people not appreciating the things unions have helped make happen.

Safer working conditions. Labor laws. Vacations. Sick time. Personal time. Flex time. Decent benefits.

The list goes on and on.

It's hard to explain to non-union workers that being in a union doesn't mean we are sitting around trying to suck every cent of profit out of the company and drinking lattes while surfing the web.

Every minute of my time at work is scheduled. Every mistake I make is documented. And I make a little less than the going wage in the non-union shops, but I get a better deal on my benefits than most of them do, and a better working environment (such as not being forced to work overtime on no notice or worrying that your boss is going to be able to fire you for a personal reason).

And yes, we do butt heads with the company as a union. When our company is steadily breaking it's goals for profit and cost-effectiveness, and they try to foist a contract on us that would result in our standard of living being hurt, we bargain as a union should.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Huh. And here I thought that Obama received the vast majority of the labor vote.

Oh wait. He did.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4035/

[blueinindiana]

11. Not is some klan states like mine.

[BlooInBloo]

20. (shrug) Maybe, but the limitation to a single state was not mentioned in the OP....

And I'm too tired to chase your goalposts.

[Juche]

27. He won our state

Granted he barely won, but he still won.

[POAS]

13. We have many that vote Republican in my

UAW shop. At least one of them is even an officer in the local.

[blueinindiana]

15. Way to go Republican voting Union Members!

GUNS GUNS GUNS!

TAXES! TAXES TAXES!

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Funny thing is, that's kinda the people Obama was talking about during "bittergate"

Not all, but quite a few.

[benEzra]

23. Way to go, DLC...

for making new gun bans Priority One for the party in the early 1990's through 2004.

It was the geniuses at the DLC who decided that whacking that particular hornet's nest with a baseball bat was a Good Idea, when in fact it was fundamentally stupid. Hopefully that lesson has been learned.

-------------------------
Dems and the Gun Issue - Now What? (written in '04, largely vindicated in '06, IMO)

[Liberal Veteran]

16. Makes you want to pull your hair out, doesn't it?

[POAS]

17. So that's why I'm bald! And all these years

I've been blaming genetics!

[DailyGrind51]

19. The Teamsters endorsed both Nixon and Reagan.

Big engines go Republican.

[depakid]

21. Reagan Democrats

reap what they've sown....

Sorry to say, but I'm all out of sympathy for folks who've voted Republican for years and now find themsleves behind the very eightball in a game they created for themselves.

[POAS]

24. Trouble is that I, as a loyal Democrat and union member,

am going down with the "Reagan Democrats"!

That sinking ship that is the auto industry employs many that oppose the Republican/Banking/Oil complex as well as those that support it.

[ben_thayer]

22. Not UAW, but

in the AFSCME shop I was employed in, the majority thought that the Democratic Party was the party of women, blacks and gays. "Real Men" voted Republican.

:eyes:

:wtf:

:banghead:

[jazzjunkysue]

26. You've got it right: Dems are sissies. It's just ignorant, but true.

I also think alot of whites want to associate with the winning team, and that has been the reuglicans, recently.

That's why alot of mcCain's voters stayed home, my theory from the beginning: They won't go in and vote for a loser.

More than anything else, they have to see themselves identifying with the winner. Even when it means the loss of their job.

[B Calm]

25. I work in Indiana at a non-union shop that makes car bumpers for

Detroit. The opening post describes my work shop to a tee! When it comes to politics, my co-workers are about as ignorant as you can get. They know it's all because of those damn liberals in Washington that screw over the working man that keeps them from getting ahead.