The Detroit Three (formerly the Big Three) groveled in front of Congress last month, asking for $25 billion to keep the doors open. Congress rebuffed them and sent them home with instructions to return with “a plan.” What do they come up with? A request that now clocks in at $34 billion. It has...
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Destroy Michigan Government Now!
As our readers probably already know, a state ballot proposal has been submitted to “reform” Michigan government. It has the title of the “Reform Michigan Government Now” proposal. It may or make not make it to the ballot, depending on how many signatures are validated. The interesting thing about this proposal is that it crept up...
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Make Michigan Attractive to Business Again
The stunning inability of Michigan’s politicians to talk about the 8,000 ton elephant in the room continues to amaze us here at GR Pundit. Michigan’s economy is suffering a “single-state” recession for one primary reason – the United Auto Workers union. Why? Michigan’s economy is/was so heavily dependent on the domestic auto industry that...
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UAW Kills More Jobs?
WOOD TV 8 is reporting that Toyota has decided not to build a new factory in West Michigan because of militant UAW members who participated in an unauthorized protest at the Detroit Auto show, where Toyota Executives were in attendance. From the article: The rally wasn’t an authorized union gathering. UAW member Greg Shotwell...
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Blue-Collar Workers Turn Backs on UAW
An interesting article in today’s Detroit News points out an instance, in Michigan, where factory workers are actively fighting unionization: It speaks to a growing skepticism and sometimes outright distain of a union that historically inspired unflinching loyalty from members and fear from management. Does this really surprise anyone? Just what, exactly, does the...
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Michigan Ouch
Over the last month we’ve seen several events which will permanently shift the economic reality of Michigan. 1) Northwest Airline’s mechanics strike, which flopped and ended up in a busted union, had no consequence for NWA. This marks a major turning point for unions in Michigan – they have lost the organizational power and...
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Labor Day Cancelled
In what can only be described as a delicious irony, the labor day parade was cancelled in Grand Rapids. Local unions, which have the responsibility of financing the cost of putting on the parade, simply didn’t have the money this year. They couldn’t come up with the necessary $25,000. Union leaders, however, promise to...
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‘SHOW ME THE JOBS’
It’s the irony of the year that the AFL-CIO stopped in Greenville to hold a “Show us the Jobs” rally this weekend. It is organizations like the AFL-CIO that advocate such job-killing measures as forced unionization and living wage laws that end up increasing unemployment. It is a pretty well-established fact in the world...
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