UAW Jeep Workers Show Solidarity With GM Strike
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Picketers in the GM strike got a morale boost on Sunday when fellow United Auto Worker members showed up en masse to the picket line at the GM Toledo Transmission Plant in Toledo, Ohio. Local news reports that hundreds of Jeeps and Chevrolet Corvettes rallied to the strikers in an act of solidarity in the UAW’s strike against General Motors.
“Well, they’ve been out there for a week now and it’s gonna start getting tough. As Jeep workers and UAW members, we’re fighting the same fight they are, they just get to lead it so it’s important to let them know we’re all standing together,” said UAW Local 12 Jeep worker Phil Reiter.
The latest GM strike was staged when contract negotiations between the UAW and GM failed to find a resolution following the expiration of the previous labor contract Saturday, September 14th.
Roughly 50,000 UAW members are currently on strike around the country.
In a show of support, fellow UAW members drove past those participating in the GM strike in Ohio in a long convoy, beeping their horns, flashing their lights, shouting words of encouragement, and doling out high-fives.
“Time goes on, and time keeps going, and uncertainty, we’re all having a little emotional, and we all need a little love right now,” said UAW picketer Christina Horvath. “The convoy, the support they’re going to show today demonstrates how we are strong and how we are united and how we come together in solidarity.”
As the GM strike continues into its second week with no obvious sign that a resolution will be found, strikers are settling in for the long haul.
GM was recently granted a restraining order in Tennessee following skirmishes between picketers and drivers at the GM Spring Hill production facility. Several Democratic presidential candidates also visited various protests this weekend to voice support for the GM strike.
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Source: NBC 24 News
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FIRE THEM ALL if they don’t want to work! My first salaried job was working in a restaurant as busboy/dishwasher for $1.40 an hour. I felt rich because before that I work non-salaried selling telescopes, encyclopedias and liquid detergent soap! FIRE THEM ALL if the don’t want to work!
Better yet, fire the incompetent management at the top that made this mess.
Yeah, come to think of it, where is the superstar leadership team when there is actually some leadership needed??? Between Barra and Reuss, that’s some $30,000,000 per year in leadership skills gone AOL. Good leadership could have stopped this strike before it ever happened. Well, at least top management is still being paid regardless whether any vehicles get built, so no need to hurry a settlement along. GM can just import more Chinese Buicks and Mexican Trucks to satisfy America’s desire for that “Special GM Quality.”
You first salaried job was making $1.40 an hour? So you were hourly, but I’m happy to hear about how you saved up for your model t!. You sold encyclopedias door to door? I heard jobs were hard to find during the great depression!
Very cute! The year was 1972! Definitely within modern recorded history, don’t you think so?
They need to fire you and your family members and replace them w/401b foreigners or better yet outsource their jobs to the 3rd world , then you might pull your head out of your a$$ instead of talking sh!t about Americans trying to earn a DECENT living.
Get back to work! Those cars and trucks aren’t going to build themselves.
Why are workers from an Italian-owned car company striking with an American-Car company?
Because all “sheep” union members love to be in the limelight & say it’s solidarity. Driving by & blowing their horns make the sheeple feel good, while their union sticks in their ARSE!
Hopefully GM has a long strike, then we will see how tough the sheeple are.