Steelworkers President: Workers Must Fight To Save Auto Industry, Manufacturing And To Reverse Trade

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Independent Workers News

By Doug Cunningham

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard is on a tour of more than 30 cities to drive home the point that manufacturing and the U.S. auto industry are vital to America. Gerard says the Obama administration must reverse trade policies that are eviscerating domestic manufacturing. Gerard says exporting jobs and closing auto plants with U.S. tax dollars is NOT the way to save the U.S. auto industry. And workers, he said, must fight back against it.

: “We're not gonna stand around while Wall Street and incompetent management in the car industry destroy our kids' future. We're not gonna stand a round and let it happen without a fight. You've gotta be prepared to fight, you gotta be prepared to go in the streets, you gotta be prepared to drive to Washington, you gotta be prepared to block roads, you gotta be prepared to occupy plants."



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[boomerbust]

1. It doesn't look good

Not when you have the top 7 GM execs bailing and selling their remaining stocks in their own company.

[tomreedtoon]

2. This would have been a great speech...TWO YEARS AGO.

Why is he addressing this when all the jobs are gone and the whole industry is crashing down? Why didn't he and the unions say something about this before now?

[inwiththenew]

3. Unfortunately GM will probably emerge from bankruptcy

In Mexico or China using Chinese steel to make cars.

[excess_3]

4. the UAW could buy Chrysler for 2 cents

problem solved