Category — auto bailout

The UAW certainly let us know who’s running the country as it flatly rejected any concessions in discussing the auto industry bailout:

The US United Auto Workers (UAW) union has ruled out concessions - at least for the time being - to help rescue the ailing Detroit-based car industry.

Ron Gettelfinger, the union president, said at the weekend that “the focus has to be on the economy as a whole as opposed to a UAW contract”.

Will Barack Obama bring us real change and stand up to the unions?  I’m not holding my breath.  Democrats owe the unions and putting the industry on permanent taxpayer funded life support is just part of the payback.  It’s a policy Democrats will pay for as people tire of bailout nation.  Even Wall Streeters are starting to hear the music as some of their senior executives are giving up bonuses this year.

Any talk of “change” was pre-election hype.  Welcome to the post-election reality of business as usual by Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.