Comments on: Flint's Answer to Right to Work http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/flints-answer-to-right-to-work/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Andrews http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/flints-answer-to-right-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Paul Andrews Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:56:34 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=1020#comment-974 I think your final question and the overall emphasis on Big Labor flexibility indicates that you missed the breakthough that the Flnt outcome represents. I think that GM was also more flexible and both parties showed respect for each other and negotiated a solution that was mutually benefitual. Both may have finally realized that they are not adversaries and neither can succeed without the other. But if not, then lets hope they at least realize that negotiation is better than 'collective bargaining'. I think your final question and the overall emphasis on Big Labor flexibility indicates that you missed the breakthough that the Flnt outcome represents. I think that GM was also more flexible and both parties showed respect for each other and negotiated a solution that was mutually benefitual.

Both may have finally realized that they are not adversaries and neither can succeed without the other. But if not, then lets hope they at least realize that negotiation is better than ‘collective bargaining’.

]]> By: TeresaE http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/flints-answer-to-right-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-973 TeresaE Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:41 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=1020#comment-973 Yeah Flint! You have managed to be flexible enough to keep a handful of UAW jobs! At lower pay and benefits of course. What about the hundreds of thousands of supplier jobs the UAW and Big 3 sacrificed in the name of profits and perks? Not a whit of mention. Truth in advertising, Michigan should just put signs up at our borders that state, "If not union, turn around, we don't need your jobs, money or taxes". In essence, that is exactly what Lansing has done. Yeah Flint!

You have managed to be flexible enough to keep a handful of UAW jobs! At lower pay and benefits of course.

What about the hundreds of thousands of supplier jobs the UAW and Big 3 sacrificed in the name of profits and perks?

Not a whit of mention.

Truth in advertising, Michigan should just put signs up at our borders that state, “If not union, turn around, we don’t need your jobs, money or taxes”.

In essence, that is exactly what Lansing has done.

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