Comments for 0 at http://www.everythingnrv.com , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.everythingnrv.com Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:11:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-229 Let me tell you what I know about strike. I am a former UAW member that went into management. During a period unions were needed but not anymore. Companies are safer and pay rates are very competitive even in non-union facilities. Companies are affected by sky-rocketing insurance rates, they take hard hits when the economy plunges but they still have to absorb the cost of HIGH Unions. The reason manufacturing is dying in the US is not because of companies, it is because Union demands forcing companies to look elsewhere to keep there products at a profit. I worked at a facility that employed over 1200 people. Once the UAW went on strike and made demands and refused to bargain in any way, the company had no choice but to move. And yes, Union people are good people, however sometimes mislead by their elected officials. Now my facility is gone and ALL the parties sufffered. In tough times companies and Unions need to work together to cut costs. Companies have to give up a lot of profits to support the increasing Union demands. Insurance companies raise rates at incredibly fast rates and companies either have to pay higher prices or try and ask for concessions with the unions. Companies aren't out to screw people anymore. If you were an owner of a company-I bet you wouldn't want a union workforce!!! And most of my friends were strong UAW members, five years later they agree. They lost everything! - JR Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:34:14 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-223 I wouldn't mind seeing them both posted on here! - really unbelievable Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:58:43 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-221 Do you want the benefit package that we are fighting to save or the one that we will have if we give up and sign on the dotted line? - Responding to the Crybaby Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:56:57 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-217 Those of you striking, how much money do you currently get paid to put the same couple of bolts together all day long? I could look it up, because it is public knowledge. Do you believe that this is a specialized skill that you have developed? Do you think that there is anyone employed at any McDonald's that couldn't honestly do your job. List out your current benefit package for us. If you are under paid and have no benefits to speak of I'll shut up. Otherwise, shut up and go back to work you bunch of BABIES!!! - This is really unbelievable Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:21:09 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-209 What is truly unbelievable are the people like yourself that don't have a clue what they are talking about. My advice to you is talk to someone who knows why we are on strike. Don't just assume that because we work at Volvo, we have it made. We can give up, go back to work and then in the near future end up with minimal wages and no benefits. Would that make you feel better to have people in the same situation as you? The point is that we are standing up for ourselves because we can. Can you say that? Didn't think so..... - Responding to Lori Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:45:56 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-207 What is sad about this situation is how union workers have taken advantage of this right to strike saying they are taking a stand from poor benefits or work conditions when the fact is they don't know what it is like to be oppressed and kept down working for little wages and in poor conditions, forget the insurance, there was a time in America when the union was a worthy organization and a needed cause but that time has passed and the individuals who created the union were in a place and time when workers worked in poverish conditions and were paid wages that they couldn't feed there families with. Todays union claims to be fighting for their rights however are living high on the sacrifices of those who knew poverty in the workplace they werent fighting out of selfish wants they were fighting to live and feed there families. I don't think that anyone working under UAW has any problem putting food on the table, nor suffer with poverish work conditions and what is sad is everyone affiliated with this strike,their families have to suffer because selfish, spoiled Americans are striking over an increase in insurance rates something that is out of everyones control, business and personnel. What if these companies continue to carry all of the expensive burden of healthcost for you spoiled Americans. Maybe the next time you picket it will be in front of an empty building with no job to go back to when you put the sign down. You are not the only people carrying the burden of insurance costs so is the rest of America including the very company you are trying to man handle into getting your way. This is just another example of how spoiled and lazy America has become. Try standing on the picket line when there is no food in the fridge and no house because your wages are so low you can't afford it. That is true sacrifice and causes worth fighting for. Not because the company that has given you your lively hood has ask you to help the very company that keeps you in the lifestyle you have to bare some of the healthcare insurance burden that the whole country is facing and carrying. Grow up spoiled babies. Be thankful for once. - Lori Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:48:18 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-205 No the company does not need to hire replacement workers. The people at NRV are some of the best people it the world. This is just a bad situation for all. It will be over soon I hope ! PS- Volvo workers, keep in mind that some people crossing the line have no choose in the matter because we have no union to back us and we have been told to report to work. >:( God bless you all. - wishing it was over!!! Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:20:54 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-202 It would be great to see the company permanently hire scabs to replace the bleeding of the company by the worthless crybabies! - Shawn Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:33:47 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-197 A scab in union terms is an individual who chooses not to be in the union and crosses picket lines to work while union members are fighting to keep the benefits that everyone else has fought for. Of course supervisors are not going to be in the union and they are not called scabs. But scabs do need to remember that when this strike is over they will have to face these union members that they have passed everyday and it is really unfair but these scabs will enjoy the same benefits that we get. - Eric Reeves Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:25:06 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-196 How can a non-union worker be called a scab? These workers have the right to continue working, and do not have the protection of the union during a strike. If these people don't show up to work, they will lose their jobs. Geez people, be a little reasonable! - Voice of reason Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:20:09 +0100 http://www.everythingnrv.com/content/view/93586/524/#comment-194 I really wonder what Senator Webb expects to accomplish by coming here. Congressman Boucher was here last week and nothing has changed. I guess next week, the president will head to Pulaski. Maybe, he will stop at McDonalds or Wal-Mart and buy some goodies for the strikers. - Antonio Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:13:01 +0100