DID THEY THINK HE WAS TRYING TO SAVE THE UAW?:

Auto Workers Protest Bush Concession Targets: `The concessions that Bush wants us to make are just a slap in our faces,` said Tammy Jones, a furnace worker at Chrysler. (Javno, 1/11/09)

The $17.4 billion federal bailout of GM and Chrysler announced in December includes concessions aimed at the United Auto Workers union, including requiring company contributions to a retiree health-care trust to be partly stock rather than cash, making UAW wages and benefits competitive with foreign carmakers' U.S. plants by December 2009, and eliminating the jobs bank, in which idled workers receive pay and benefits.

"We have to maintain our wages, maintain our jobs and maintain our benefits," said Brian Moore, a safety trainer at GM's pickup truck plant in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac. "That's supposed to be the American way."

You bet, Big Labor is our aristocracy.

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