UAW On Strike

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0nelilreb said:
I don’t know why this is a headline -When your contract is up and you don’t renew it then you have no coverage from the company . You can’t strike until your contract is up .
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Right to work state as well. Just giving you the rundown of what's going on in Tennessee and this strike.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
Yeah it's not the Government's job to bail out big businesses or banks:rolleyes:
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Yeah, but they were too big to let fail. However, the government just keeps on ignoring antitrust regulation and common sense and keeps allowing mergers. It's pretty incredible and the epitome of "we've found the enemy and he is us." ... not literally, but we have that select body of people who "represent" us, soooo .....
 
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AM64 said:
Yeah, but they were too big to let fail. However, the government just keeps on ignoring antitrust regulation and common sense and keeps allowing mergers. It's pretty incredible and the epitome of "we've found the enemy and he is us." ... not literally, but we have that select body of people who "represent" us, soooo .....
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Ever notice that the "too big to let fail" companies are always huge manufacturers and banks. If Google or Facebook or Twitter went tits up do you think the government would do one single thing to help them?
 
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Mick said:
Should a company pay health insurance for the people working?
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Sure, if it's in everybody's best interest. Remember medical insurance was a benefit that actually made sense; a healthy workforce (and their families) are likely a more dependable workforce. It was based on the pool concept ... that thing that says a lot of employees will be healthy and inexpensive and will balance out those who become ill or meet with some semi catastrophic accident. Of course, Obama and the dims decided to broaden the pool to include those who couldn't, would't, or shouldn't work ... often the bottom of the barrel in the risk category ... some whose lifestyles should have already seen them sorted out by natural selection.
 
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VolStrom said:
Ever notice that the "too big to let fail" companies are always huge manufacturers and banks. If Google or Facebook or Twitter went tits up do you think the government would do one single thing to help them?
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Yeah, but I'm not sure about twitter, and we seem to be well on out way back to The phone company. And with combined drug company whose names would make law firms blush, it seems like we're on the way to The drug company (complete with vertical monopolies or distribution systems) and increasingly anti competitive drug and medical supply costs.
 
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AM64 said:
Sure, if it's in everybody's best interest. Remember medical insurance was a benefit that actually made sense; a healthy workforce (and their families) are likely a more dependable workforce. It was based on the pool concept ... that thing that says a lot of employees will be healthy and inexpensive and will balance out those who become ill or meet with some semi catastrophic accident. Of course, Obama and the dims decided to broaden the pool to include those who couldn't, would't, or shouldn't work ... often the bottom of the barrel in the risk category ... some whose lifestyles should have already seen them sorted out by natural selection.
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Hey, I'm on Obamacare, but not by choice. When I retired last year my company offered retiree healthcare and had ever since I worked there. 3 months later they said adios retirees get your healthcare somewhere else. I'm not part of the couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't work crowd just someone in their 60's with no other option. It cost nearly $700/month with a $5650 deductible before it starts to pay a dime and then its only 50%. Sure I could have gone back to work, but I don't want to so I'll pay the big dollars for healthcare until medicare kicks in in a couple of years.
 
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VolStrom said:
Hey, I'm on Obamacare, but not by choice. When I retired last year my company offered retiree healthcare and had ever since I worked there. 3 months later they said adios retirees get your healthcare somewhere else. I'm not part of the couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't work crowd just someone in their 60's with no other option. It cost nearly $700/month with a $5650 deductible before it starts to pay a dime and then its only 50%. Sure I could have gone back to work, but I don't want to so I'll pay the big dollars for healthcare until medicare kicks in in a couple of years.
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You can thank ACA for getting kicked off. With costs jacked up by government regulation and plan limitations your company probably couldnt afford it anymore.
 
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VolStrom said:
Hey, I'm on Obamacare, but not by choice. When I retired last year my company offered retiree healthcare and had ever since I worked there. 3 months later they said adios retirees get your healthcare somewhere else. I'm not part of the couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't work crowd just someone in their 60's with no other option. It cost nearly $700/month with a $5650 deductible before it starts to pay a dime and then its only 50%. Sure I could have gone back to work, but I don't want to so I'll pay the big dollars for healthcare until medicare kicks in in a couple of years.
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It really is a problem for those between retirement and Medicare. I had that problem for a few years, and it was expensive even then, and I'd honestly forgotten about it. My company made changes to the retirement plan - the later plan included healthcare and mine didn't, and I didn't want to start my retirement early just to pay medical premiums because of the effect it would have on retirement pay. By pure dumb luck my wife had decided one day in her late 30s that she'd like to join the Navy Reserve which was possible at her age because she was a nurse. She went on active duty after I retired (the 90s saw a lot of forced retirement in the engineering ranks) and we became eligible for TriCare. By the time she retired, the reserves were covered by TriCare even between retirement and Medicare and then TriCare for Life after. She often comments that she never realized when she joined that the big benefit would be healthcare. With congress you never know what's going to happen though - we've seen a steady increase in drug copays and premiums (at least for me), and you have to pay Medicare premiums, but it sure beats what most people are up against. I can't see that ObamaCare did much of anybody a favor.
 
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LouderVol said:
You can thank ACA for getting kicked off. With costs jacked up by government regulation and plan limitations your company probably couldnt afford it anymore.
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It goes deeper than that with my former employer. They got caught up with a hedge fund investor that has raped them for the last few years. I had lunch with a couple of former coworkers the other day and they were despondent because they weren't making enough money to suit the current ceo and had their salaries frozen for the umpteenth time in the last several years. Even though the plant is making $4M a month it's not enough to keep from freezing salaries. I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of American managers that only think of the next month as long term. These guys would rather screw over 1000 people before they would give up one dime of their own salary. I probably won't live to see it, but there is a reckoning coming someday and it's going to be huge.
 
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VolStrom said:
It goes deeper than that with my former employer. They got caught up with a hedge fund investor that has raped them for the last few years. I had lunch with a couple of former coworkers the other day and they were despondent because they weren't making enough money to suit the current ceo and had their salaries frozen for the umpteenth time in the last several years. Even though the plant is making $4M a month it's not enough to keep from freezing salaries. I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of American managers that only think of the next month as long term. These guys would rather screw over 1000 people before they would give up one dime of their own salary. I probably won't live to see it, but there is a reckoning coming someday and it's going to be huge.
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Are they still union or was that some other place you worked?
 
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GVF said:
My friend says he's always out front in his Dodge/Cummins when they are pulling their RV's up the hills and mountains. His friends they RV with have a Ford Powerstroke and a GM Duramax. He says they can only keep up with him on level ground. Follow???????


My boss at the bowling alley where I work part time just got an F250 6.7 (used) King Ranch a few months ago. He just got his oil changed, probably fuel filters too. $220 (dealer). There is no "and it only costs this much." that's what he paid. Follow ???????? Maybe he'd like to go to your dealer or service person.
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Well let your boss know, 3 gallons of rotella t-4 is 60 bucks and a spin on filter at oreillys is 20 bucks. (Wix)
Tell him you can do it in the parking lot for 160 and be done in 18 mins.


My 6.4 holds 4 gallons and I use T-6 and a wix filter.
Easy 100 dollar bill and still just 18 mins

And I ain’t scared of no dodge or a c6 vette...

Just saying.
Peace and chicken grease brother!
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
No it isn't. It's in Athens. What's so difficult to understand. And no, Athens isn't part of Huntsville yet. Maybe one day.
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Huntsville Metro...

Huntsville metropolitan area - Wikipedia

The Huntsville metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area on the northern border of Alabama. The metro area's principal city is Huntsville, and consists of two counties: Limestone and Madison. In 2018, the Huntsville Metropolitan Area's population was estimated at 455,458.
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My truck is a bit of an enigma. F-250 Crew Cab 4x4 6.5ft bed King Ranch... but with 6.2L gas not diesel. I just don’t tow enough and the engine was I think an extra 7-8k? But it can still pull an amazing amount I just turn more RPM. I bumper pulled a dump trailer we think was over loaded to around 16k lbs (wet dirt) and it did just fine. Same tranny, same axles and differentials (different gear ratios), same chassis, same brakes. Just gas engine. No it won’t resale as high as a diesel but I don’t care. It’s a 2012 and I’ve got 55k miles on it. It’s got a factory Ford Premium Care warranty on it till 2025 also.
 
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rjd970 said:
I get that unions served a purpose and were once needed. With modern regulations and what not, I'm not so sure they really serve a meaningful purpose anymore. The market should determine wages, which is what the unions are mostly negotiating now.

UAW can do this of course. And of course, GM and other auto manufacturers can and will move to right to work states and offshore factories.
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Unions today kill jobs.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
You're wanting argue silly semantics. Its Huntsville metro. What is your problem?
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You're wanting to argue something you don't know dick about.......as usual. THAT is your problem. You can draw all the maps you want but Athens as of yet, is NOT a part of Huntsville nor is it a part of Madison. The fact that something all the way to the Elk River is considered Huntsville is moronic. I guess next you will tell me that Decatur is in Huntsville.
 
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