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07.02.2008 3:41 pm

Clay registers ire over Chrysler shutdown

U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay has now weighed in on Tuesday’s announcement by Chrysler that it’s cutting 2,400 jobs at its St. Louis operations. He joins others who offered their comments Tuesday.

“I am appalled by Chrysler’s decision to sacrifice the jobs of 2,400 skilled UAW employees at Fenton,” Clay said in a statement.  “Three years ago, the taxpayers of Missouri invested over a billion dollars to help Chrysler remain competitive, increase productivity at the Fenton facilities and to safeguard good American jobs. 

“We trusted that the new owners of Chrysler were committed to improving quality, boosting mileage and upgrading their products.  Sadly, that trust has been betrayed, Missouri taxpayers have been fleeced, and the workers have been abandoned.

“I am going to demand new legislation that would require a greatly enhanced commitment to worker retraining and job placement.  Our skilled union workforce is a precious national asset that we cannot allow to waste away, because of corporate mismanagement.”

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Newsflash to Lacy…….The product being made in Fenton isn’t selling. If the product isn’t selling, there is no money to pay that “skilled union workforce.” By the way, can a workforce be skilled if the aren’t union?

— Amazedbythelunacy
4:26 pm July 2nd, 2008

How ironic that a Democrat is upset about a business closure. In general, they hate businesses. Liberals blame businesses for all of the world’s problems. Pollution, global warming, unemployment, poverty, hunger, unemployment….
And how dare they make a profit.
They’re all the fault of business.. McDonalds, Walmart, automakers, oil companies… It’s all their fault.
So the Democrats tax them, regulate them, make laws about what they can pay, their insurance plans, retirement plans, more taxes, work rules, and more taxes and more rules.
Even now, Lacy’s solution is “a greatly enhanced commitment to worker retraining and job placement.” And who, pray tell, will pay for that.
And then, when a business closes or moves the politician screams and hollers like it’s not his fault. Hypocrite.

— tomtir
9:25 pm July 2nd, 2008

Hey, Tommy …How about the taxes paid by the union members? Can they pay for your services? You don’t think 28% TO 37% is enough? God bless the corporate republican sructure. Let’s cut taxes for Alice!

— Garrison
9:12 am July 3rd, 2008

Hey, Garrison … how about the fact that the consumer buys the product that the business owners have to create using labor from either union or non-union employees?

Was it your almighty unions that created those jobs? Nope, some entrepreneurial business owner did — the kind you refer to as greedy. (Aren’t you a business owner, yourself?)

You people are so quick to bash business, but without it, your boys don’t have anyplace to work! It’s a symbiotic relationship. The labor-producing aspect of it can be replaced, however. If the business itself is shuttered, nobody makes money.

One of these days, you might just find a way to figure that out! But I doubt it.

— Jim (the republican)
12:45 pm July 5th, 2008