There are already layoffs...
Posted By: sm on 2008-10-29
In Reply to: For all of you who still - sm
My husband's employer has laid off 4 people just in the past month (flooring business). The hospital I left that outsourced laid off my best friend with no package because an outside company bought department, and the hospital also laid off 30 people (mostly management).
Hate to burst your bubble, but Obama isn't even in the White House yet, and people are laying off. So, blame who you want, but it's time Bush took some of the flack.
8 years of pubs hasn't worked. When Clinton left office, I do believe the budget was fine. Am I wrong? I don't have fancy words or any links to post or to copy from, but I can tell you this, if there isn't some change very soon, we will suffer, no matter who is in office or in Washington, D.C.
Guns??? Is that all the pubs worry about???????? Guns being taken away???? How about let's get this economy going and not worry so much about whether we can carry a gun or not... Can that happen anytime soon? The posts about gun carriers is getting old, real old!!!!!!!! 
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And along with many of these layoffs...
...are more families who will also lose their health insurance. 
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Wow...is this Fox story the quality of antiunion propaganda that we're going to be seeing now? Because, while it's certainly effective as propaganda, with its visions of angry shiftless unemployed men doing nothing all day, it's also full of the sort of little lies that let you know there's an ulterior motive to the story.
For instance, *who* exactly is making 72 bucks an hour, as described towards the end of the story? No one, that's who. They're combining wages, insurance benefits, and retirement benefits to come up with a number that looks astonishingly high, so we'll all think badly of those rich pampered assembly-line guys. This is the standard--the *absolute* standard--in reporting autoworker pay, and it is misleading (or maybe just lying, depending on your point of view). Makes me wonder if anyone is actually making $31 an hour to play checkers, or if it's actually something closer to 10, and they're just being allowed to keep their benefits.
For every statement that makes the program sound like it's now being reasonably run (''Most of the workers in the program accepted buyouts to leave it, and new work was found for the rest'') there are a few extra images of checkers-playing or Price-is-Right-viewing, just to reinforce the notion that anything you do to help workers is wasteful.
Look, you have to do something for laid-off workers. Maybe this program wasn't well-run. That's fine, but if you have only one huge employer in a region, and the company suddenly leaves, you have to deal with the thousands of jobs lost. The economy hasn't exactly been cranking out the new jobs. What are people supposed to do? Starve?
The propaganda is only going to get stronger, as companies struggle to free themselves from *any* obligation to their workers. Unions are already being painted as temples of laziness, rather than what they actually are--the only method workers have for demanding a stake in how the companies they work for are run.
What else is there? If there were another method for guaranteeing workers some sort of power, I'd be glad to hear it, but for now, unions are what we've got. The alternative, no protection at all...well, we MTs have already seen what happens then.
Ever consider you and your lifestyle is just 1 or 2 layoffs away from poverty?
What if you're laid off, maybe your jobs are sent out of the country and you can't find another job. Would you be too proud to take a handout from the government in the form of unemployment benefits? Maybe food stamps so you could eat. Judge not...............
Not everyone is looking to have you and your cohorts fork over part of your paycheck so they don't have to work. Think overpaid CEOs. Think companies (also MT companies) who send jobs out of the country so they can bloat their bottom line and put more in THEIR paycheck while taking it out of YOUR paycheck. Isn't that what's being done already? Is your MT pay getting better......or worse?
I am pretty sure this is a joke, but real layoffs
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