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UAW Members Don’t ♥ Sen. Corker |
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, members of the UAW have sent a “love-note” to Sen. Bob Corker, a highly conservative Republican from Tennessee.
Corker, as you recall, introduced a pay-cut amendment to the auto rescue package last December that would have required the UAW to accept deep concessions. Far be it from Corker to try to save the jobs of thousands of autoworkers at a time when the nation’s jobless rate is worsening at an alarming rate.
Members signed a giant-sized card letting Corker know what they thought of his union-busting tactics and then delivered the valentine to Corker’s Nashville office.
On a local TV newscast, Dale Bradford, a retired UAW member, summed up the workers’ sentiments this way:
[Corker] needs to get over his prejudice against the UAW. The hardworking men and women of the UAW helped build the middle class. We won’t take this prejudice lying down.
The highlight of the protest undoubtedly was the sight of Tennessee House Democratic Caucus Leader Mike Turner, who joined the workers in an “electric slide” across the state capitol entrance, one day after being released from the hospital for chest pains.
Check out Turner’s dance routine and see more of the workers’ protest here.
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Who on earth ever gave anyone in our government the right to tell us that we have to work to improve the wages and living conditions of another country?
Is not the country of Japan responsible for their own citizens? Why should anyone in this country take any kind of a pay cut to improve the life style in another country? Tell their auto companies to share their profit with their workers and leave ours alone!
Please speak up loud and clearly to those who seem to think that we owe Japan anything! First they tried to destroy our country and now in another generation they are trying to take it over again, by having us pay for their life style.
Americans are very generous people in times of strife but now the economy needs all of our elected officials to help us…and this means you! and the others who are in favor of helping the American worker! Don’t let us down!
I have sent this letter to the local newspaper, and to our state elected officials..
I am the wife of a 50+year member of the UAW. We cannot afford to lose any of the benefits that he worked to earn.
Edwina J Murray
Berea, Ohio
Very well written Edwina. I enjoyed reading your comment…hope to see more of your writing in the future! Sincerly, R. Bodette
I usually don’t like to be this blunt, but Corker’s a MORON. It warmed my heart to see these great Union people let him have it! He hates Union people because he wants to see The Big Three collapse, so all the work will shift down south, even though it will cost our country millions of jobs.
Corker is a MORON of the worst order. He is an “I’ve got mine, you get yours” Republican. He displays none of the values of shared, fair, prosperity. These are the things that Union members stand for. He wants the AMERICAN auto companies to fail. How can he call himself an American when he does everything in his power to make sure Americans lose their jobs and American Companies go under, so he may bring some extra work to his State.