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	Name:	lotowner -
	Subject:	More Info on the UAW
	Date:	5/4/2009 8:07:31 AM

Dear Right to Work Supporter,

With this week’s news that Chrysler, one of the “Big Three” Detroit automakers ravaged by decades of compulsory unionism, and that United Auto Workers union entities may end up with a 55 percent stake in the company, it’s important to revisit just how the UAW’s forced unionism has led to the collapse of the American auto industry.

On its Freedom@Work blog, the National Right to Work Foundation has covered the destructive effects of the United Auto Workers union's monopoly bargaining privileges. Some of the UAW union’s transgressions include.

Paying over 12,000 union partisans wages of $31 per hour NOT to work

Running a for-profit golf course that has bled $23 million in the last five years

Establishing an unsustainable pyramid scheme to handle health and pension obligations to retirees

Ron Gettelfinger and the other UAW union bosses have used and abused their government-granted forced unionism privileges to the point where the Big Three could not compete against foreign manufacturers like Toyota, Honda and Nissan. Employees at these foreign-owned automakers work in U.S. plants that are free from monopoly bargaining, and they produce cars largely in Right to Work states where forced dues are prohibited.

Indeed, it is no wonder that forced unionism states have been hit hardest by the current recession.

The UAW union is also notorious for being one of the most militant, intimidating unions when it comes to trying to organize more workers through the abusive “card check” process, as this Right to Work video report shows.

Now it is more important than ever for concerned Americans to get involved -- before the union bosses turn America into a gigantic version of Detroit.

Please read this urgent message from National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix appearing below, and sign the Open Letter to President Obama demanding Obama stop forcing taxpayers to pay for bailouts of forced unionism in the auto industry.

Sincerely,

Stefan Gleason, Vice President
National Right to Work Foundation