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Meanwhile, union members are growing more vocal, saying the UAW has been singled out to shoulder an unfair burden in the automakers' survival plans. "Management got us into this mess and now we're supposed to get them out of it," griped one union official familiar with the bargaining. "I'm hoping Obama's going to step in." (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...chief Ron Gettelfinger is trying to mute public criticism of auto executives, blaming domestic carmakers woes on a global recession created by the financial meltdown. However, he has also noted repeatedly that union members already made sacrifices in 2005 and 2007; he refuses to say whether the UAW would agree to wage cuts at this time...
...union has shut down the "jobs banks" that allowed idled workers to collect pay indefinitely after they exhausted other unemployment benefits. But the UAW is balking at any deeper cuts that might jeopardize the generous supplemental unemployment benefits that union members have gotten for more than half a century on top of state benefits...
...Still, union leaders warn they may repeat the action if Sarkozy fails to respond to what they say was the biggest labor protest in 20 years. "I cannot imagine tomorrow we'll hear the same old 'I saw nothing, I heard nothing, and I have nothing to say,'" Bernard Thibault, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor warned Thursday. "It's just not possible...
...Thibault and fellow union leaders feel so sure? Because while a majority of French public opinion had backed the wide-ranging conservative reform drive that has been Sarkozy's focus since winning the Presidency in May, 2007, there are now signs that his support is crumbling as the recession sets in. Polls on the eve of the strike showed 69% of people supported or sympathized with Thursday's action...