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LAX strike called for super-busy Sunday
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A disgruntled union plans a one-day walkout at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, one of the year's busiest travel days.

The Engineers and Architects Association, which represents more than 7,500 city engineers, architects and other professionals, said it was planning small, targeted strikes at different city departments on different days in the weeks ahead, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. About 200 union members work at LAX.

A two-day August strike failed to get union members the pay raises they sought. EAA members, who have worked two years without a contract, rejected a city offer of a 6.25 percent pay increase over three years, from 2004 to 2007.

The union represents accountants, chemists, forensic scientists and other technical professionals with an average income of $74,500.

Well, the Dems are back in town so the Unions feel like they can start shutting down the economy again. Joy, I can really see how the economy benfits from these groups. The selfishness of their actions is mindblowing, but hey, as long as Democratic travelers don't mind risking losing their jobs to help these people making $74,500, then let them wait.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Labor in the Driver's Seat

By George F. Will

How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power.

It has given the United Auto Workers majority ownership of Chrysler. It has sent $135 billion of supposed stimulus money to state governments to protect unionized public-sector employees from layoffs and other sacrifices that private-sector workers are making. It has sedated the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards, which protects workers against misbehavior by union leaders. Cap-and-trade legislation might please unions with protectionism -- tariffs on imports from countries not foolish enough to similarly burden their manufacturers. If Congress, seeking money for more socialized medicine, decides that some employer-paid health insurance should be taxed as employees' compensation -- which it obviously is -- generous union-negotiated benefits might be exempted.

Now it is the Teamsters' turn at the trough. Congress might change labor law to assist UPS, a Teamsters stronghold, by hindering its principal competitor, FedEx.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502498.html

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Here's shocking news:

GAO: Full Recoup of Government Investment in GM, Chrysler Unlikely

A Government Accountability Office report released Monday is the latest review to cast doubt on the likelihood that taxpayers will fully recoup more than $80 billion invested in the two U.S. automakers.

Government investigators say the U.S. government is unlikely to recover all of its investment in General Motors or Chrysler because the companies' value would need to "grow substantially above what they have been in the past."

A Government Accountability Office report released Monday is the latest review to cast doubt on the likelihood that taxpayers will fully recoup more than $80 billion invested in the two U.S. automakers.

Treasury officials told the GAO that they are considering initial public offerings or private sales to dispose of the government's nearly 10 percent stake in Chrysler and 61 percent share of GM. But government officials won't say when that could happen because they don't want to undermine the potential return on the investment.

The report comes on the same day Ford – which did not take government bailout funds – reported a $1 billion net income in the third quarter and forecast a "solidly profitable" 2011.


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But Ford still faces obstacles in its turnaround. Last week, workers overwhelmingly rejected an agreement with the United Auto Workers that would have brought Ford's labor costs in line with rivals General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. Workers objected to clauses limiting their right to strike and freezing entry-level wages, and felt the company was healthy enough and didn't need further concessions.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/02/gao-recoup-government-investment-gm-chrysler-unlikely/?test=latestnews

When Toyota or Honda rolled into town, didn't they tell the workers that if they went on strike, the company would pack up and leave town?

Why don't the U.S. auto manufacturers put their foot down?  Either that or get rid of management as the unions are clearly running the show.
felt the company was healthy enough and didn't need further concessions.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Ex-newspaper union head faces charges

Keith J. Kelly

THE feds are closing in on a former newspaper union official who's been charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars during his final two years running a Communications Workers of America local with members at three New York City dailies.

According to a complaint filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, Wayne Mitchell is accused of writing checks from union bank accounts to give himself an extra $250,000 in compensation at a time when the union bounced checks to outside vendors and failed to pay federal and state taxes and pension contributions.

http://www.nypost.com/columnists/keithjkelly