These mechanics want to fix past concessions

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

SOME 1,700 auto mechanics in Chicago put down their tools and picked up picket signs this past week, effectively shutting down service at around 130 new car dealerships........

The local took concessions in contracts following the 2007-08 economic crisis, when new car sales took a nosedive from 16 million annually in 2006 to less than 10 million by 2009.......

The companies that were bailed out have all since become profitable again, hiring thousands of workers. Meanwhile, in the same time period, the union's contracts gave concessions to dealerships around health care and wages, and workers' wages have effectively decreased.
The more than $12 billion transferred to the auto companies and their subsidiaries include federal tax dollars paid from auto repair mechanics, whose wages and living standards suffered as a result of a financial crisis they had no hand in creating. This is another example of the truth of a popular Occupy Wall Street slogan: "The banks got bailed out; we got sold out."

To read more:

http://socialistworker.org/2017/08/07/these-mechanics-want-to-fix-past-concessions

[Gabi Hayes]

1. I live in the area. First I've heard; what a surprise

Kind of ironic, yes?:

https://www.google.com/search?q=workers+of+the+world+unite&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRhNvbkcjVAhUp04MKHYlPAiIQ_AUIESgB&biw=320&bih=460

[guillaumeb]

2. Workers are always expected to make concessions.

But it is interesting that the capitalists never want to concede anything. And by capitalists I mean the owners of the means of production, not those who claim to be capitalists even as they work a regular job.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Heh

My name: William B ....

Just noticed yours!

Alons, enfants.......

[guillaumeb]

4. de la patrie....

Je suis coupable, oui.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. I learned that in Jr high French class, much

longer ago than I care to recall

Still know most of it by ❤️

Where's my wallet!

English translation is très bloody, non?

[guillaumeb]

7. It is bloody in the original.

As is the Canadian anthem.

The US anthem is also filled with rockets and bombs.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Meant to add, did you check the google page?

Pretty cool images, if in ironic historical context

Speaking of irony:

Michael Moore at his best?

[guillaumeb]

8. Transporting Communist literature is still illegal in some states.

Amazing. Perhaps the Southern states?

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Of course

Somebody set fire to the truck

Now they all seem to love Russia down there

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.639a113fd0e6

Richard Engel's Show had a great seg on NRA Tennessee oligarch connection