Union Boss to Members: Shut the F*%k Up, You Motherf*%kers!
by Liberty ChickUnited Auto Workers (UAW) union rank and file members shout down their own UAW leadership in a heated meeting on January 24th, as their UAW leader loses it at the podium. Sunday’s meeting in California made last summer’s Town Halls look like a family picnic, after a few choice words from their UAW leader spurred the crowd of rank and file members to erupt in screaming and chaos. At one point, another attendee tries to reason with the crowd, pleading “we have women and children in here that are scared.”
WARNING: Strong language, angry-town-hall-mob-like-behavior
Workers from the Fremont, California NUMMI plant, the UAW-represented joint venture between Toyota and General Motors, will lose their jobs after March 31st when the plant is slated to close, due to high labor costs and stricter environmental standards in California. They’re angry with their local UAW leaders for not representing their interests and accuse the UAW of “politicizing” the plant’s closure. Workers say it’s a waste of time and money to demand that Toyota keep the plant open and want UAW leaders to focus instead on negotiating their severance package. But leaders have been practically MIA for the last 6 months.
Last year, many workers at other GM plants were actually willing to make concessions to avoid the massive auto industry bankruptcy and keep their fellow UAW workers employed elsewhere, even if it meant closing their own plants in some cases.
The full report from my friend Peter List over at LaborUnionReport.com sets up the scene:
“At one point, one UAW leader (identified as Javier Contreras) yelled at the crowd, telling them to “…Shut the f*ck up, you motherf*ckers!…
Things got so bad, that UAW leaders had to call the police to restore order.”
Wow. If this is how these union leaders treat their own rank and file members, I shudder to think what hospital board meetings will be like if Health Care somehow passes.
Check out Peter’s full report here.
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WoW!
Simply wow.
It is about time that Union workers find out exactly what their union thinks of them.
Yeah, thats about par for the union course.
You took the word right out of my mouth!
That doesn't surprise me. Union members are starting to realize that union leaders do NOT care about them, that it is all politics and they are pawns.
what a bunch of losers. The whole lot of em.
I watched both videos.
Good Lord, for a minute, I thought they were handing out free government cheese at a Hope and Change Rally.
Collective bargining, and collectivly left in the dust.
Union Thugs thats who runs the unions and thats who maobamas best friends are.
My new facorite video
Wow !
This is better than "Operation Repo".
Sorry dudes, actions have consequences: " the plant is slated to close, due to high labor costs and stricter environmental standards in California".
Nice and its that same mentality that visits the White House on a daily basis influencing policy!
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I just sent this link to my wifes cousin…he SWEARS that Unions are the best thing since sliced bread….I've told him on many occasions that Unions are running on borrowed time….coincedentally, another cousin works at the SAME PLACE he does and was let go the week of Chritsmas, but what do I know, since I'm a right-winger….I swear its like talking to a brick wall….
*coincidentally, Christmas
Wow !! I wonder if MSM and MSNBC will be showing this. I have always said Unions don't care about the workers except for their monthly dues. If a worker has been unfairly treated, we have a legal system to make that person whole. Unions served thaeir purpose decades ago but now need to be cleaned of the coruption. I saw one report where 700 school teachers in NYC that have sexual charges against them ( but not yet convicted ) can not be fired due to the Union. They meet everyday and play cards for 8 cards. i saw another one of Postal workers that punch in the clock and then go directly to their cars and get drunk and sleep for 8 hours. One guy said he's been doing this for years. It is NOT the workers that cause this but rather the protection from the Unions that create these conditions.
Unions are like oil in the engine of your car. The longer you run the oil, the more sludge that builds up. . . . tell me again why GM and Chrysler were too big to fail? Oh that's right, to pay the pensions and severance packages for these losers. Unions have outlasted their usefulness in our society. Time to abolish them and teach the people to work and make themselves valuable to their employers thus ensuring their employment. You can't keep making your company lose money and expect your job to be around forever.
And who wants to be in a Union after watching these two videos? Not me
My God!! I guess what goes around, really does come back around and bite you on the a$$!!! If these idiots are STILL paying union dues after THIS, they deserve what ever comes next!!!
and gooberment motors is now offering toyota owners $1000 to trade in their toyota's and become gm owners…I think not….
Useful idiots. If the Union leadership only knew what the intelectual elites though of them. That row of union thugs that lined up would make an NFL team proud.
a perfect example of why unions are bad bad bad BAD
When I was a young man, about thirty-five years ago, I worked in industry once, for a brief period of time. Those of you here who know me, know I am anti-union, and a capitalist. I had a similar experience, and a man from the United Steel Workers pulled about the same type of stunt. The only difference was, the situation was a lot worse than the one on the video here. I whipped his ass, and got arrested.
I have never had anything to do with a Union since. I saw the light, at an early age.
Union is great for idiots.
We have to recognize that our "leaders" are nothing more than the activists from the left and right. The rest of us are too busy feeding our families to take leadership positions.
Well, now we're paying the price for it. It is time Americans stood up to these putzes in power!
Everything is relevant. In other Auto News, Ford just posted a profit:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internat...
Ford is the only US auto manufacturer that hasn't been in bankruptcy, has been sucking on the government teat, and hasn't been kissing the barrackus behindus.
For that reason alone, I'd consider buying one. I'm kinda pissed I bought my Saturn when I did now that Obamamotors killed the brand. I did buy it before they took it over, but still….
I'm with you. The silent Majority has to do something. When you talk to most people about it, their response is, "the news is depressing, we don't watch it anymore" That is why we are paying the price. If it wasn't for Breitbart and Foxnews, I would have never known what was happening to our Country.
Sorry folks, I can see a lot of you have never been to a union meeting.
Nothing strange or out of the ordinary here.
In certain circles, dialogue and discussion, is sometimes three dimensional.
As far as these guys voting Republican next time around, if I know my buddies, it will take about another year of no work for them to tell the guy up at the podium to "Shut the F…K up".
Well I'm no labor lawyer, but I'm dont think just stopping to pay your dues is the easiest thing in the world. Someones its deducted right from your paycheck, by the employer.
That's why I bought a new Ford Flex…just doing my part for the "evil corporations" that keep us employed.
I worked for GM for 30 years and I am proud to say that I never ever attended a UAW meeting. Their monthly publication has always touted the liberal agenda and finds itself itself in my trash can upon receiving it every month.
For the record, the only way to not pay union dues…is to quit.
The UAW has long outlived it's usefulness. It really stands for "U Ain't Working".
These videos are pure entertainment to me. heh heh.
Ok, the grammar there was awful. Let's try again:
Well I'm no labor lawyer, but I don't think just stopping to pay your dues is the easiest thing in the world. Sometimes its deducted right from your paycheck by the employer.
Union Reps visited my place of business. Two very large dudes from the Carpenters Union. They pretty much left me alone when I told them the Civil Rights Commission would not look kindly on them trying to strong arm a female. I don't mess in their little world and they sure better not mess in mine. I pay more then union wages to begin with for highly qualified people.
When a sheet metal workers union came to the shop where I worked, I was the only one who publicly stood up and said no way. I have always felt that employment is between an employer and an employee, no middle man required. Besides, I'm a grown man, I don't need my mommy to hold my hand at work. I refused to sign the contract and was let go. Much to the dismay of the newly contracted union workers, I was immediately rehired as the operations manager, that's right, their boss. As part of management I was not required to join the union and I got a handsome raise with my new position. Needless to say, people wanted me dead and I was harassed and even assaulted at one point. In the end several people lost their jobs. I continued to get raises and bonuses while the unionized employees were stuck in a contract they were very unhappy with. The company's owner had always been very generous to those who went the extra mile, but now there were no incentives to work hard for the betterment of the company. No more asking for a raise when you had a new baby at home, or when you had gone above and beyond. All they could do was pay their union dues and wait for a tiny raise every 6 months whether they deserved it or not. After a year and a half they finally wised up and kicked the union out.
You go Cowboy!!
Ahhhhh……Union Yes! Priceless!
Where is the outrage over the use of taxpayer money to capitalize the UAW's pension and health plans. We continue to subsidize this union everyday even as GM tanks. The banks at least have paid some money back,with the Auto industry it's gone forever.
What a concept. You give up your freedom, then pay someone to take it and make your decisions for you. How dumb is that? Hang on…….that sounds like government too.
This guy is lucky he is still alive………….
Unions are like a virus…the corporation is the host. The virus needs the host to survive; however, it also depletes the corporations ability to resist other ailments like economic downturns. The virus eventually destroys the host.
You can't apply for job unless you have a union card. At least that was true in Las Vegas Culinary Union.
The only thing they forgot where the tar-n- feathers. People need to start planning better.
Sounds like the Union Chickens have come home to Roost!
Lesson to Union workers everywhere…Unions have consequences.
Comical to see the "muscle" surround the podium in the second video. I've seen these guys at Tea Party rallies. Unions=organized thuggery and the persuasion of power.
Unions were a good idea at one time. When they started, they made sure that the workers had safer working conditions, fair pay and at least some sort of protection from abusive corporate bosses, just look at what they did in Pittsburg & West Virginia. This, however, is no longer the case. Now it is the Union bosses who are the abusers. The unions of late are no more than brutish lobbying groups hell-bent on filling DC with left wing socialists.
I have to go beat my head against a brick wall now.
"….angry-town-hall-mob-like-behavior"??
Correction, Ms. Liberty Chick. That's what the Dems usually call the Tea Party members and the rest of ordinary fed up citizens who try to speak their minds, only to be told to "sit down and shut up". The "mob" designation is also flung at us by the leftwing MSM, which supports Obama's socialist agenda and doesn't like patriotic dissent anymore than Obama does.
Ah, collectivist, Democrat politics at their most productive.
These are Obama supporters, no doubt.
No wonder the country is headed down the crapper.
It looks like it's time for union members to be going after their Union Bosses! They are responsible for this! I hear Andy Stern is a frequent visitor at the WH — at least SEIU members will know where to find him when they are in the same boat.
They know what their leaders think of them and that's money and votes. They can't get a union job unless they join and pay dues. I have seen them processed in and two hours later processed back out; so the bs about not being fired is bs. Union has always been run by mob or mob like.
WoW amazing video footage of thugs being thugs. Sad part is if there were children in the room they were exposed to the foul language and screaming, but the union leaders probably see this as early indoctrination. Time for all unions to go away. They are one of the cancers of our great nation!
Interesting……Take your money. Do nothing to help you. And tells you to STFU! WOW!
I agree. There are plenty of regulations that insure workplace safety and equal opportunity. America no longer needs Unions… especially in the public sector.
Unions are not a bad idea, the problem is when they grow so large they begin to shape public policy. they were necessary a while back, when workers were treated like indentured servants. If union bosses meet regularly with the president, red flags should go up. Maybe its time to take these thugs down a peg or two
Detroit- Just a useful narrative or proof that Unions ruin industry?
Ford just skirted by. Alan Mulally leveraged the company to hilt supposedly even mortgaging the Blue ford symbol. They did all of this before the credit market collapsed. Ford survived without government assistance not because of the UAW but because of the brilliance of Alan Mulally. The fact that they did not have to take government assistance propelled Fords market share i.e. profitability. Again the market share had nothing to do with UAW or non UAW it had to do with decisions which Alan Mulally had made. If you saw the numerous videos of Ford UAW employees drinking at lunch or just not showing up for work when they are getting paid you would ask yourself how have they survived UAW.
I love a happy ending!
Sounds much like Obama
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And we have these people writing the health care bill. Imagine what they feel towards everybody else?
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Most of your comments here are exactly right on. I was at this meeting (neither video is mine) and I was purposely standing at the back door incase something broke out and I had to make a quick exit. Tensions are very high in the plant right now, but this is uncalled for on both sides. All this is over a 'retention bonus' that the company is offering. The company has made their 'best and final' offer, and the union wants more. What the company is offering is decent, but not anywhere near what Toyota or GM offered their employees when they shut down plants or offered buyouts (NUMMI is jointly owned by both Toyota and GM and until GM's bankruptcy, built vehicles for both). The company doesn't have to offer us anything and many of us are concerned that if we don't soon accept this offer, they may change their mind and take it away. Several have requested of the union to be able to vote on this, but the union so far has refused. Of course, until the plant closes April 1, 2010, we still pay our union dues of two hours of pay per month. And if we do get any retention bonus, this would be our last pay check from this company, and of course the union would take their cut of this check as well to support their causes, like going to Palm Springs, from which they just returned from a two week trip.
"Why is it all unions are evil, except for police unions, firefighter unions, nurses, and prison guards."
Nobody on the right is making that argument. You are all alone on that one.
Police unions? Nope.
Firefighters unions? Nope.
Nurses unions? Nope.
Prison guards? Nope.
You forgot teachers unions.
Let's pretend that we have decided to let the union bosses run the country. Twenty years from now, what does the United States look like? Detroit.
Detroit is a physical testament to what these greedy thugs produce. We must keep these types from power at all costs. They have already defiled the people's White House. This needs to stop here and NOW!
Just an FYI guys…. My Father is a retired General Motors worker… and has been a U.A.W. Member for 31 years, and I've been to many a meeting with him and I have never, ever seen anything like that at all. That dude was out of line and should be removed from the Union. Just letting you all know.
-Pat
Thank you for your comment.
You need to step up, and get people involved.
You know, like a community organizer. Educate your brothers and sisters in the union, to the fact they have been sold out.
Union members, your leadership has sold you out. The union leadership has engaged in extortion and intimidation at the expense of the very companies that employ union workers thus leading to layoffs. Unions are a relic from decades past.
Union members, joins us Conervatives [Tea Partiers] in taking this country back in Nov. The companies that employ you are not the enemy, they've provided you with a livelihood to take care of your families. The criminal union leadership is the enemy.
Union leaders are typically folks who didn't like getting their hands dirty and thought they had the personality and the smarts to get off the floor and into an office. After that it's pure cronyism and coming up with enough BS and handshakes and smiles to get elected. People who work with their hands and not their mouth have plenty of time to ponder this…believe me. You can see this contempt in the faces of the workers here.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over turmoil amongst these people. Only ignorance of the most intentional type can explain how the rank and file workers are any less culpable for the damage unions have done to this country than their (elected) leaders. Unionism is piracy and that is all. The sailors want their cut and the captains appear to have already split it up. Gee, I am all broken up.
You are so much more than anti-union and a capitalist, you are a patriot. I know that is obvious, but I enjoy your commentary and thought I should tell you. Your simple logic and common sense views remind me of the people of the eastern plains of my state, Colorado. I love the sane and direct way they deal with life. Such a stark contrast to the frazzled urbanites of the Denver metropolitan area.
The liberals are so wrong about these "hicks" as they call them. Many of them have degrees and are engineers as well as ranchers or farmers. They are computer literate and just as informed as anyone who lives in a giant metropolis. These are the kind of people I want to be around when the progressives make the mistake of attempting to seize control of everything.
Why not? It's essentially what Obama and our "representatives" are telling the American people by continuing to push their unpopular agenda. I can't say who is taking their cues from who but one thing is certain, Washington is not taking it's cues from the public any more than the AARP was taking cues from their members. Every one of these groups of leaders seems to know better than those whose numbers give them the influence they so happily wield like a child with a water cannon.
We haven't been privy to the Progressive vs. Democrat behind closed door meetings, do ya think there might be similiarities between the meetings? And I just wonder , HMMMM … would it be the Progressives doing the ordering and threatening HMMMM….
People of the west always tend to think differently. Especially different than city people, or yankees, or left coasters. The country is more open, and people tend to think in a clearer fashion. It is easy to see the forest for the trees, when you live on the plains………..
When will common sense finnaly KILL UNIONS? They've OUTLIVED their effectiveness ( as shown here) and degenerated into just another money machine for leftist wacky Democrats.
Democrats PUSH the enviromental MADNESS that cost these people their jobs – do they blame the UAW for having its collective head up the ass of the Democrat Party?
Their own $$$$$ was used to kill their OWN JOBS>
It's parallel to the Democrat Party pushing abortion, which is KILLING off future Democrats.
Kind of like how the average American citizen is starting to realize that his elected officials don't care about him.
I think you'd have a more meaningful conversation with the brick wall.
I would like to see the unions out of the schools. We don't need any union workers brainwashing our children with Politically Correctness and left wing propaganda.
These Union members would not be losing there job if the unions had not demanded more an more, maybe the workers should demand there Union not be so greedy instead.
If Ford could ORDER the UAW OUT of their plants I believe they'd do it a Detriot second ( about two years – s l o w like Union workers) but they can't.
Have you wondered why Toyota and Honda and BMW and others have opted to build plants outside of MICHIGAN? Hmmmm?
So they don't have to kneel at the altar of the UAW – which is KILLING JOBS nationwide.
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Unfortunately I was forced to join a union for a job I had. Union members are not rewarded for efficiency, productivity or hard work. They are rewarded for hanging around and toeing the line. Unions breed laziness and feelings of entitlement. Nothing more.
We need to return our great country to a state of MERITOCRACY!
Government is not a bad idea either. But it too becomes counter-productive when it gets too big.
And it is definitely time to make the unions irrelevant.
If your point is that union labor is superior to non……………
well……..
I've got a few Chicago union stories to tell you. My old man could raise the hair on your neck with stories from the Bell Telephone strike, in the late 60's. Good old rip-roarin' 20's gangster stuff.
Union labor is crap.
Unions are crap.
Deal with it.
Reagan had the right idea, and I WAS an Air Traffic Controller.
The problem is that if you want a job that has been unionized you have no choice but to join.
Derek, I don't know of any union that allows you to decide your method of payment. I'm pretty sure they all take directly from your paycheck. Kind of like the IRS.
Being sold out by the leadership is why I haven't belonged to a union in almost 25 years. Now, having said that, these people are workers on the line. They talk to each other like this all the time on the job. With all the stress of losing their futures, I can sympathize with how they just lost it. Dosen't excuse it, but I understand it. I would note the reason why the plant is closing is it's too costly to operate a plant in California. Pay attention America, this is why US businesses have helped manuver us into trade agreements I call articles of treason. We have allowed the progressives to drive our jobs, and futures overseas and pay the companies for the privledge. Thsi has been 100 years in the making and the unions were told by their members who saw the handwriting on the wall and didn't listen. Others who supported all of the giveaways either didn't consider the consequences, were too stupid, or were part of the movement to make things as bad as they are and worse if they get the chance.
As Sister Nancy would say, "ASTROTURF! ASTROTURF! " That was "manufactured anger."
amen to that…these unions protect their own inept teachers too.
Thanks When I saw Nummi I knew if this was california, there was a lot of story missing. Toyota kissed GM goodby.
The UAW was chased out of a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama a few years back for the same stuff.
The Unionistas then followed workers HOME to intmidate them.
Ya' think?
That's great!
Above I mentioned the workers at a Mercedes plant saying "leave us alone – Mercedes pays us well and we don't NEED your "help" UAW…"
Tom,
What you just described, was EXACTLY how it was where I worked. 100% you know the story. The United Steel Workers was a damn joke. The bill of goods they sold those stupid people? From the time the plant voted to go Union, until the time they shut their doors, was 34 months.
So much for Union prosperity. They placed such ridiculous burdens on the company, that there was no profit margin left. A welder couldn't push a broom, that was for the laborers. A machinist couldn't drive a nail that was for the carpenters, and on, and on, an on.
I remember a caustic little ditty from a way back then:
"Here's to the Union,
divided we will fall,
we'd better give in
before they **** us all!"
It was appropriate then, it is moreso now.
You make an excellent point. Sure these union members are up in arms now. They're losing their jobs and possibly their severance. But they sure didn't seem to mind fleecing the very company that gave them the oppurtunity to make a paycheck.
OMG! The Unions are in TROUBLE! This is incredible.
This is no surprise. People, like their faith in the government, have put their faith in a union leadership that simple does not represent it's members. If these people thought that by joining a union would solve all of their problems, they've missed the whole point of a union!
In unions, like politics, you get the leaders you deserve.
I was under the impression that you had to sign a contract BEFORE you started work for that to happen…if so, I guess you're in a bind..unless of course the union people decide on their own to strike their union..?? Just a thought…
Yes, that was sarcasm – a little "look at the pot calling the kettle black" humor.
The lefties want to make sure the US enters a "Post Industrial" economy. Just like Detroit.
Private unions don't scare me because eventually they kill the company and die out. Public employee unions however have no such inherent limitation. In the case of of public employee unions, the taxpayer is the ownership and there is no limit to how much the taxpayer can be forced to pay to support these organizations. The Unions know that private industry unionization has failed and that the public sector is the last resort for them to keep their power.
You misunderstand. All unions are crap, and I was a steelworker for 10 years. As someone else said, this is typical behavior, in my experience.
And ALL public-employee unions should be abolished, made illegal. There is NO reason for public employees, paid by the taxpayer, to be unionized. Believe it or not, that will happen some day because they will irritate the public so much they will be destroyed.
Unions are Mafia.
You can't say no, and that's exactly how Obama, a Chicago Mafia stooge, wants it.
If union members keep voting for Democrats and appointing leaders who spend all their time in bed with Democrats, instead of doing what they are elected to do, union members should expect to be threatened and intimidated like this.
That's how the Mafia works.
Democrats to Americans: Shut the F*%k Up, You Motherf*%kers!
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