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GOP: 'Action Alert - Auto Bailout'

1. This is the democrats first opportunity to payoff organized labor after the election. This is a precursor to card check and other items. Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.

Naturally. Cause destroying the unions takes precedence over saving the jobs of 3 million Americans.

Ladies and Gentlemen? The CANADIANS are bailing out the Big Three.

U.S. and Canadian governments say they will ride to the rescue of the beleaguered Detroit auto makers, hoping to head off a catastrophic collapse of Chrysler LLC or General Motors Corp. that would cascade throughout the North American economy.

Ottawa and Ontario will provide an estimated $3.4-billion to the Canadian units of the Detroit Three, while U.S. President George W. Bush will throw a $14-billion (U.S.) lifeline to their parent companies.

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[Canadian Industry Minister Tony] Clement would not provide a specific figure, but he said the amount of money in the Canadian bailout represents this country's one-fifth share of the Detroit Three's North American vehicle production and on Canada maintaining that percentage.

“Clearly, this amount of money is meant to be, as the U.S. is finding out, a way to keep the doors open for the domestic auto sector while they continue their long-term planning,” he said.MORE

Rachel Maddow on the Republican Senators Interests in Union breaking and supporting foreign auto makers over our own unionized workers.

Part Two

Sweden Gives Its Car Companies Money

Senate Republicans Determined to Cause a Depression by Destroying Big 3

So Why Didn’t The Plantation Caucus Make Cerberus Put Cash Into Chrysler?

Red State Senators Give Black Auto Workers Pink Slips While White Collar AIG Execs Get the Gold

Goin' south: To save itself, organized labour must capture Dixie

Traditions, Myths and Power
African Americans are the most politically attuned people in the nation; it comes with the experience. Blacks know that what the corporate media treat as venerable southern “tradition” is rooted less in history and culture than in the immediate need to retain power. We have seen it all before. When conditions change, traditions evaporate.
Media propagate the myth that the South is solidly anti-union, and that this state of affairs is rooted in the region’s peculiar “traditions.” Nonsense. The same thing was said about segregation—the system, we were told, was “traditional.” Mythmakers also convinced most Americans that the Stars and Bars had always had a revered place atop the region’s public buildings. That, too, was a lie.
Southern legislatures began stitching confederate banners in the corners of their state flags in the 1940s when it became clear that Blacks might soon achieve critical mass in their search for allies against American apartheid. The racists anticipated, with good reason, that a concerted assault on segregation was imminent. “Tradition” had nothing to do with the unfurling of these new flags. They were dramatic signals that “massive resistance” to desegregation and Black voting rights had begun.
Similarly, southern lawmakers worked themselves into a frenzy of right-to-work legislation in the Fifties and Sixties, as it became clear that Jim Crow constraints against African American social mobility were about to burst. Southern barons realized that, in much of the region, working people’s power plus the right to vote meant Black power.
If union organizers had followed civil rights workers onto southern turf in large numbers, the entire edifice might have collapsed. We will never know.
Unfortunately, American labor leadership had not desegregated itself, and was in no position to take advantage of the enormous human energies unleashed in the South. Racism in top union ranks was in large measure responsible for abandoning the South to the worst elements of a corrupt, greedy and racist business class.
It was during the heyday of the civil rights movement that collective bargaining among public employees was made illegal in all of the Old Confederacy. This was not a historical coincidence.The REAL South, the people of teh South, are pro-union