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To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/4/2008 8:23:27 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574094

I agree, that's why they are locating a lot in the south. We're not as "spoiled" as yankees are, and coming from the "bible belt", we have our work ethics and a sense of morality. :)

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/4/2008 9:05:45 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574094

Joe This cannot be correct. Ask RW. He'll tell you that the UAW isn't the problem with the US automakers.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/4/2008 10:52:38 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574094

According to The Wall Street Journal the Japanese car company [Honda] recently built a plant in Indiana, but was only willing to hire employees from counties that outside the ones where "most of the state's thousands of unionized laid-off auto workers" were located. That's news to me, although the article was over a year old. Sounds like grounds for some sort of red-lining lawsuit for tacit racial discrimination. That's different than simply building in Indiana instead of Ohio. That would be like IBM only hiring from Suffolk and Westchester counties. NYC zipcode and you're a discard.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/4/2008 11:02:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574094

Neat trick. Build automotive plants where there are few UAW members. Honda (NYSE: HMC) appears to have it down to a science. According to The Wall Street Journal the Japanese car company recently built a plant in Indiana, but was only willing to hire employees from counties that outside the ones where "most of the state's thousands of unionized laid-off auto workers" were located. Wow. What a shocker........a corporation trying to avoid unions. Corporations are so good and unions are so bad. Its a shame the world is the way it is. You know, joe, you didn't grow up here......but unions have a history in this country and played an important role in making this country a better place to live. We're not Europe....a concept you seem to have trouble accepting.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/5/2008 2:01:54 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574094

Joe, you should do yourself a solid and read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It's got great coverage of work conditions before the rise of the union movement here in America, and the price they paid in blood to win fair treatment from companies and management. Fair treatment the majority of employees enjoy today, even if they never been in a union.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (438279)	12/5/2008 9:20:28 AM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574094

According to The Wall Street Journal the Japanese car company recently built a plant in Indiana, but was only willing to hire employees from counties that outside the ones where "most of the state's thousands of unionized laid-off auto workers" were located. And the states hungry for business allow this? plus they compete with each other with tax incentives...read that as tax payer money to FOREIGN auto makers...how stupid is that? We help foreign manufacturing companies and refuse to help domestic companies.... Sen Shelby has worked to incentivize foreign car makers to come to Alabama with more than $600M in tax cuts and now lobbies to deny detroit any help... Al