Michell Malkin has been chronicling the fate of workers thrown under the Obama/Reid/Pelosi bus when the auto bailout took place.
From Michelle Malkin: While Team Obama promotes fables to indict Romney, the
incontrovertible stories of the current administration’s economic
malpractice are finally getting out. In 2010, I first reported on how Obama’s UAW bailout threw tens of thousands of nonunion autoworkers under the bus. It’s the ongoing horror story of some 20,000 white-collar workers at Delphi, a leading auto parts company spun off from GM a decade ago.
As Washington rushed to nationalize the U.S. auto industry with $80
billion in taxpayer “rescue” funds and avoid contested court termination
proceedings, the White House auto team and the Treasury Department
schemed with Big Labor bosses to preserve UAW members’ costly pension
funds by shafting their nonunion counterparts.
In addition, the nonunion pensioners lost all of their health and
life insurance benefits. The abused workers — most from hard-hit
northeast Ohio, Michigan and neighboring states — had devoted decades of
their lives as secretaries, technicians, engineers and sales employees
at Delphi/GM. Some workers have watched up to 70 percent of their
pensions vanish.
“I worked for 34 years at GM/Delphi Corp. When Delphi went bankrupt,
we lost everything,” Dana Strickland of Michigan wrote me. “Because I
was salaried (middle management), we lost our pension and health
insurance. I did not belong to the union, so GM/Delphi could have cared
less. I have never felt so betrayed. We never hear this brought to the
public’s attention. People need to know how we were screwed, while the
Obama administration kissed up to the union.”...
Through two costly years of litigation and investigation, the Delphi
workers have exposed how the stacked White House Auto Task Force schemed
with union bosses to “cherry pick” (one Obama official’s own words)
which financial obligations the new Government Motors company would
assume and which they would abandon based on their political expedience.
Obama’s own former auto czar Steve Rattner admitted in his recent
memoir that “attacking the union’s sacred cow” could “jeopardize” the
auto bailout deal.
In June, 20 months after a federal judge first ordered the government to cooperate, the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association broke through the administration’s information stonewall and dislodged 62,000 pages of documents in their lawsuit to right the administration’s wrongs. As Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller
reported on Tuesday, the documents included “internal government emails
(that contradicted) sworn testimony, in federal court and before
Congress, given by several Obama administration figures. They also
indicate that the administration misled lawmakers and the courts … and
that administration figures violated federal law.” http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/08/meet-the-real-workers-obama-screwed-over/
Besides the workers at Delphi, Reid/Obama/Pelosi also threw thousands of local workers out of business when they forced auto dealerships to close down and throw sales people, mechanics, accountants and others out of work.
Instead of allowing the car companies (except Ford) to go bankrupt and get rid of the burdensome union contracts and rules, Obama/Reid/Pelosi instead threw out tens of thousands of people out of work.
Here in Las Vegas, we have numerous car dealerships that have been shuttered and are now blighted areas of town because of Crybaby Harry Reid, who has a habit of throwing Nevadans out of work.
So, to Obama/Reid?Pelosi, on behalf of the auto workers they screwed over:
What the fuck are you doing?
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