UAW Wants To Work With President-Elect Trump To Dismantle NAFTA

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• do you believe he would think the same if Hillary had won since her husband was the president who signed it into law.

  • Maybe the UAW has finally woken up and realized their partisan love affair with the democrats got them nowhere. 55% of the working class crossed the aisle and voted in Trump and the Republicans in Michigan. Hence why you the union bosses never really came out for Hillary before the election...They knew Hillary didnt care about the working man and woman suffering in the mid-West, only her Wall Street buddies. They knew their membership was going to Trump, the man who actually came to them and listened to them and felt their suffering. The voting stats prove this.

    I think the UAW actually has hope with Trump, to do the things the democrats failed to do and their union leadership too. Too many hardworking families have suffered for too long and been ignored by elitist thugs. Let's hope.

  • Thank God the two-faced, lying Clintons are no more. Good riddance!

    • The Clintons have achieved a level of corruption that would make Nixon blush.

      • Here's a CHALLENGE to y'all:

        Union voters went for Trump. If he doesn't deliver on union issues, will you vote against him next time NO MATTER WHAT ELSE?

        Are you union, or aren't you?

    • Take this from someone who felt the Bern - I agree with you completely. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz should go to jail with her friend.

    • And Bernie sanders should be ashamed of himself for endorsing that witch.

      • Bernie was promised a job in the administration. he is like the people who bought homes and moved to DC because they had a job in Hillary's administration. remember Bernie just bought a new $600,000 home so he must have expected a pay raise.

• I kind of agree with you motorman. I think this reaction by Dennis Williams is more about what this agreement has done to the country and his group more than anything else.

• Unions will love Donald Trump especially if he attempts to go through with his slogan of, "Make America GREAT' and tearing apart things like NAFTA and accessing penalties to companies who hire illegal immigrants to work on US soil; something else that President Elect Trump should consider is providing seed money to utilities in the United States to build nuclear power plants to add greater capacity to the US Power Grid which is something the Obama Admin never thought about despite their big push for electric powered vehicles.

• the problem with nuclear power plants is the law suits by the envirowienies. there was a $6 billion plant built in new york that never open because of the law suits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant

  • You need to keep up. Envirowienies have changed to support Nuclear since Global Warming became the main threat. Global warming will kill us for sure. Nuclear waste only kills when we make mistakes.

    What does that make you? An envirodummie? Enviroslow? Are you anti-1980's-enviro's? Are the only greenies you hate the old ones with beards?

    Here's another thought. Trillary were both over 70yo. This election was probably the last one you 1980's warriors will ever fight.

    • our summer camp is in the 3 mile island power grid and i am still paying $15 a month for the clean up on top of the regular bill.

    • my real job along with a race engines shop was working for Westinghouse who built a lot of reactors and had a big set back lately because of the problems in japan with the typhoon. they had contracts canceled so I know the enviroweines are not all behind nuclear power like you posted. they are building a wind farm near our summer camp so I bet that our power bill goes up even more because the federal government saying they must produce certain % of power with non polluting sources.on

  • Although environmental concerns were present, the main problem with the Shoreham NPP was its proximity to millions of people, many of whom had no evacuation route in the event of a catastrophe. All of the power utility's customers are still paying back in monthly installments all - ALL - of the taxes imposed on the utility for the nuclear plant.

    I'd like to see nuclear plants designed as nuclear waste consumers: http://egeneration.org/solution/wamsr/; thus killing two birds: getting rid of the problem of storage for 300,000 years of current nuclear waste and eliminating the potential catastrophic explosions of the Shoreham-type designs. Here is a safe nuclear energy design that will work. Nothing stopping it except political will.

    • Thank you for your well communicated insight to a difficult problem, and the great solution.

• Unions as a whole outside the government Unions are in trouble. The membership is dropping due to less jobs and the fact many are wanting to go to Right To Work.

  The Democrats are not the Roosevelt Democrats that embraced the Unions years ago.

  The Republicans are now trying to find that middle ground that can appeal to a wide band of people from the white majority to as many minorities as possible.

  The Democrats as like one stated today focused so much on fair wage and fair treatment they forgot how to do job creation.

  The way forward has been like what happened at GM where the future of the UAW and the Future of GM are tied to the success of the company. With the UAW owning a large chunk they need GM to make money.

  I think we will see a environment created that will be conducive to making it attractive to make things here again. We will not get back all the jobs but we will again see the work and profits returning. There are trillions of dollars that do not come back here because the companies lose too much in taxes. 15% would let that money comeback and be invested here.

  The fact is the government makes no profits the only way they can make more money it to raise the taxes on everyone. Sure you can tax the rich but they can not pay it all. Also they stop investing if they do not have it.

  My company is owned by one man. He is responsible for thousands in different areas of the country making a good wage and providing for all our lives. We do not depend on the government to bail out a$$es out.

  Regulations and taxes have at times slowed our growth that has been generally better than just good. But he continued to invest in us and while he does he makes a great living for himself too. This is what most business people are like and many are working with their hands tied behind their backs.

  Our owner also has gone to great lengths to protect us and his family should anything happen. So many private companies die because of the taxes a family faces should the owner die. Farms too have been lost this way.

  We for too long punish those who do and reward those who don't or just can't because they make more to do nothing.

  Just today with the government holiday it is sad that the roads had so little traffic. Why? Because so many are working for the government and add so little to the economy. This is why are economic growth has been so slow.

  I can see the private sector unions warming to the Republicans and business if the climate for growth increases.

  • Have you ever found yourself scrolling through a social media feed and all of a sudden stumbling upon a quote like: “By evolving, we exist.”

    And at first you’re like Oh, that’s nice and a second later, you find yourself confused?

    That is because the above quote is complete bullsht. In fact, it was generated by a website called “New Age Bullsht Generator,” a site that randomly creates phony aphorisms for geeky amusement.

    When Ph.D. candidate Gordon Pennycook stumbled on the site, he found it profoundly entertaining — at first. But then he got a little disturbed:

    “I thought, ‘I wonder if people would actually rate such blatant bullsht as profound,’” he told Scott3 “The study sort of went from there.”

    His study, “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullsht,” was published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making in November. Pennycook, along with a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, tested close to 800 participants on whether they could determine if a statement was bullsht.

    They found that people who are receptive to this kind of “pseudo-intellectual bullsht” are less intelligent than those who aren’t. The study also found that they tend to have strong religious beliefs, are not reflective and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, alternative medicine and the paranormal.

    “The basic idea is that people who are more intelligent should be better able to detect that the statements are bullsht,” Pennycook told Scott3. “And, similarly, that people that are more skeptical about supernatural claims should be more skeptical about the bullsht that we presented to them.”

    • The above is my edited version from a Hhuf-Poe article by Elyse Wanshel 12/04/2015 updated 12/08/2015. Cheers to them. Also, the study itself won an IgNobel Prize, look them up they're good.

    • Did you say something?

      Oh well I never amounts to anything anyways.

      Nobel? Obama got one for doing nothing too.

      • You missed the Ig

        • If you are reading the Huffington post we now understand your confusion.

        • the huffington post used to be run by some dumb woman who did not know her husband was a switch hitter and I am not talking baseball.

        • Now it is run by the far left who do not report the new just offer opinion pieces presented as news.

• The whole republican power structure would have destroyed GM before breakfast. Now they vote to put them in place. I love GM, but won't reward stupidity.

  • Maybe the UAW has finally woken up and realized their partisan love affair with the democrats got them nowhere. 55% of the working class crossed the aisle and voted in Trump and the Republicans in Michigan. Hence why you the union bosses never really came out for Hillary before the election...They knew Hillary didnt care about the working man and woman suffering in the mid-West, only her Wall Street buddies. They knew their membership was going to Trump, the man who actually came to them and listened to them and felt their suffering. The voting stats prove this.

    I think the UAW actually has hope with Trump, to do the things the democrats failed to do and their union leadership too. Too many hardworking families have suffered for too long and been ignored by elitist thugs. Let's hope.

  • You do realize that Bush started the bail out for both Chrysler and GM? You do realize he only started it as it was at the end of his time in office and he wanted to give Obama the control on what was done?

    I thought it was a class act. The rest that happened after that was just partisan politics. The one out of the oval office would have apposed the move no matter which party. That is what DC has been doing for years and this election should be a wake up call to both parties.

  • the repubs only wanted to do away with the unions who supported the libs. they did not want to destroy GM. Obama did not save GM as he stepped in to save the union $$$$$$ support wise and union votes for the libs. everything he did was political with his eye towards the next election. the auto union finally figured out that the libs were going to put some the car companies out of business just like the coal mines in the name of global warming.

• Neanderthal thinking gets you Neanderthal results... We will see... We will see...

• The day Trump got elected, GM laid-off 2000 US workers.

  Trump was going to bring back jobs to the US - it's a little early to generalize, but not off to a great start.

  • Yeah, if you read the story behind these layoffs it is because of supply and demand. They can't just keep pumping things out that aren't selling.

  • Notice that nobody at the Cruze hatchback plant in Mexico got laid off. GM should have put hatchback production at Lordstown.

    • Notice the Hatch cost more to make and is there to keep the cost down so it would not cost more than it already does.

      The extra content and the lower volumes make for more expensive cars to make. They are just trying to keep the price down to where people will still buy it.

      Moving it to Lordstown would lower the profits or it would increase the cost. Neither is a win for a car unproven at this point.

      Besides I would guess they could not lay anyone off on the Hatch line as they have yet to even go production yet. Last I heard they were just tooling up.

      To make the car at Lordstown odds are they would have had to ask for concessions from the UAW and that would not work. They are a very good local as they have worked well with GM even before the bail out. The area lost so many jobs and they know what it is like to be with out work. More locals should learn from them and Wentzville.

• it was not the wages that put GM in trouble it was the work rules and the job bank. you can not afford to pay people to do nothing. I was at a outside union company on a job for my company. I needed a vacuum cleaner to do my job and when it arrived I was told do not plug it in. I asked why and I was told that must be done by a union electrician. I had to wait 45 minutes till he showed up to plug it in and I almost missed my plane.

  • I remember doing the Vegas shows for several companies. You did not dare plug anything in yourself.

    We had one guy from Hoover do so and the next morning ever cord was cut and he had to wait for a Union Electrician to come and repair it all at a princely sum.

    You are correct the Job Bank hurt but the amount of pay the laid off workers got with the union agreement was so much GM could not shut down lines for fear of losing more money. They tried to break even or lose less money buy building the cars and dumping them on the fleet sales 4 times a year. No one won with that.

    • one auto official said it cost just as much not to build a car than build it under the old work rules so might as well build them and hope they sell to break even.