Hulk Smash Puny Unions!

Oh if only it were true. My childhood hero, the Incredible Hulk would be smart enough to understand that unions are a bunch of over-paid, under-worked cry babies.

So I am back on my anti-union kick again. Why? Because GM shut down a plant in Indiana because the union workers voted to shut down rather than take a pay cut. Union workers were given the following options:

• Take a pay cut down to the top-end of industry standard wages for the regions AND get at $35,000 bonus for taking the pay cut, OR
• Transfer to other GM plants and keep the same salary

The union voted instead to shut down the plant. The shut down occurred on 6/30/11.

I am speechless.

The local economy will be severely impacted on several fronts. Not only have 600+ workers lost their jobs, they will also lose $1.8 million in property taxes annually, lost additional jobs (the plant wanted to hire more people at the lower rate), and double-digit unemployment. Folks, we gotta stop the selfishness and look to the greater good! People can't think outside of their own lives to see how this decision affects so many other people in that community. They are now going to look to the governement to supply their needs rather than work for a living. Utter laziness and selfishness.

I again state that while unions were needed at one point in our nation's history, they have outlived their need and have become a horse-and-buggy business. Were are driving America into the dirt, and soon we'll all be begging for a job and be back in the same situation we were in during the Great Depression if we don't change our mind set about employment.

Bust up the union.