https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/12/11/auto-bailout-fails-in-senate/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2008/12/11/auto-bailout-fails-in-senate/#comment-24331 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:50 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=2671#comment-24331 Well, this version of the events is false by omission; it tells a little less than half of the story. The UAW already has already proactively made wage concessions. A year-old contract is already in place to move new hire wages into line with the non-union foreign company plants and shift the burden of retiree costs, among other things. The UAW also agreed to broader wage concessions in these negotiations, just on a different timeline than the Republicans preferred, and from their point of view the main problem was that worker and retiree cost concessions were being asked for out of context – other stakeholders were not being asked to pony up. If the UAW was the sticking point because the Republicans really didn’t ask anyone else for concessions, it’s not exactly fair to say they were the roadblock.

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