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Re: {OT} Detroit Automakers a Relic of the Past

Be sure you read this one.

> > entary_by_michael_barone/detroit_automakers_a_relic_of_the_past> > > Tiny:
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> Excerpt: > > "Obama's presidential campaign was an entrepreneurial enterprise whose > success owed much to harnessing individual initiative through an > innovative management structure and creatively using emerging > technology. The campaign, as well as the candidate, helped inspire > under-30 voters, who preferred Obama by an unprecedented 66 percent to > 32 percent margin -- as opposed to his 50 percent to 49 percent margin > in those 30 and over. > > But keeping the Detroit Three in their present form, with their > extravagant health care benefits and the union's 5,000 pages of work > rules, is an exercise in preserving in amber the America of the past. "

Obama probably owes the unions a big favor, in the same way the Bush family owes the Saudis, and most presidents owe the defense industry.

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JoeSpareBedroom
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What unions essentially want is to get rid of the general election when the primary is won by a majority. Right now even if 100% of the workers at a company petition for a union vote, there still has to be a second election for unionization, and in meantime companies have been known to drag their feet and use intimidation against workers to prevent unionization. Under the reform plan, workers maintain the secret ballot but need to vote only once, not twice, to approve or reject unionization.

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larry moe 'n curly

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