Rush Limbaugh wrote:
GM Workers Chase Out UAW
August 17, 2010

RUSH: The shoe on the other foot. I always love it when the shoe is on the other foot. This is from the World Socialist website. I check it frequently because I know so few other people do. The date is today. "Indianapolis Autoworkers Drive United Auto Workers Executives Out of Meeting." Now, we fantasized about this. When Obama gave General Motors to the United Auto Workers they became the executives and were gonna start negotiating union contracts? Heh-heh-heh-heh. We said, "Wait 'til this starts happening," and it has. "Workers at a [Obama] Motors stamping plant in Indianapolis, Indiana chased United Auto Workers executives out of a union meeting Sunday, after the UAW demanded workers accept a contract that would cut their wages in half." (laughing) Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

"As soon as three UAW International representatives took the podium, they were met with boos and shouts of opposition from many of the 631 workers currently employed at the plant. The officials, attempting to speak at the only informational meeting on the proposed contract changes, were forced out within minutes of taking the floor. The incident once again exposes the immense class divide between workers and union officials, who are working actively with the auto companies to drive down wages and eliminate benefits." (laughing) The shoe's on the other foot. Now the UAW's executives are the owners and they're trying to tell their own brethren to take 50 cents on the dollar. The national UAW are the bosses. Now that they effectively own Obama Motors, they're the ones riding the backs of the proletariat -- and it shows up on the World Socialist website!

You have to love this. "A vote on the changes was originally scheduled for Monday, but was cancelled by the UAW after Sunday's informational meeting made it clear that opposition was nearly unanimous." (laughing) "The new contract would, among other concessions, cut wages from an average of $29 an hour to $15.50." Now, that's not quite correct. The new contract would cut the base wage, that's the starting wage. The starting wage is $29. It would cut the starting wage from $29 to $15.50 an hour, which is still more than the other auto manufacturing plants in the area pay, including other Obama Motors plants. Needless to say, ladies and gentlemen, these figures do not include overtime or the lavish benefits and pensions packages and so forth.

"[Obama] Motors, the UAW, and the state government have been working to sell the plant to JD Norman Industries, which was demanding the nearly 50 percent wage cuts --" Ah! That's why they want to do it. They want to sell it. UAW management wants to sell the company, and so they're getting UAW workers to take a 50% pay cut on the opening wage, just to stay profitable. The UAW, now that they own it, the executives want their bonuses based on profitability -- and what are they doing? They're asking for labor cuts! I love it when the shoe is on the other foot! You notice they're not encouraging a strike?

They're not doing what they would normally do if they were on the other side of the aisle. They're acting just like management does in these situations everywhere around the world. Obama Motors "and the UAW are now denouncing workers for opposing the destruction of their living standards." Obama Motors "and the UAW are now denouncing workers for opposing the destruction of their living standards"! That's in the story. That's at the World Socialist website. So the World Socialists are upset at Obama Motors and the UAW executives because they say they want the workers to go along with the destruction of half of their living standards.

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081710/content/01125112.guest.html

https://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/inds-a17.shtml

Opiate of the People wrote: This sounds like Trotsky's work, does it not? According to the People's Encyclopedia, Trotskyism's principles require "an authentic dictatorship of the proletariat based on democratic principles, rather than an unaccountable bureaucracy."