jerk to rule

 uaw up date:

the very definition of yellow unionism.....

or who's really working to rule here ??

the rankers or their leaders ????

"  SHHHHHH
   quiet..
keep this strictly confidential... 

the fuckin top toppers
over at 
the  butterfinger brigade 
are clearly 
ready and willing
 to lay  square  eggs 
for delphi and its gm daddy 

square eggs of the goose kind "

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 todays 'struggle line '
              at delphi ????

     "WORKING TO RULE"

here's a  recent lovely
lady
pink belly reporter's

take on this 
   posted up at labor notes 



"The work to rule campaign 
is already under way"

'already '????

 jesus like this is show down tactics 

already  slowin down

 what the fiuck we got here a half century ??


is this ghandi vs the raj ??

king in alabama ??

fuck this all will be a wrap by easter you geeks   



" In Flint, one Delphi worker reported 
 “most in our department 
and the department that supplies us are doing it.”

 "most"  "doing it "

like its a dance craze 

' come on baby
     dooooo
         the sloco  motion with me ...'

" Another worker said 
 skilled trades and production workers 
are working to rule together"

"together " ???

 jesus christ 
thats like shuffling your feet under the desk together 

  solidarity right on boyz right on 

but this is somewhere between group gestures
and a fart riot 

beat off contests with the lights on
are more daring 

good idea to do stuff
in public 
so u can count heads  
get lines of communication wired up and tested out 

that way 
no sick  practical jokes 
come judgement  day 

work to rule and the like 
are 
   costless
 ranker  co ordination exercises

 but but but but butrick gang 


this is like training for war with brooms 

and we could  already here 
the enemy guns booming 
way back last  rock-tober 

  
and how'z this for a nut cracker...


"Resisting overtime has been harder
to organize ....

  workers  fear
 future job and pay cuts "

totally bull shit

 gotta brake that shit off 
like a bunch of dead branches 
          right nooooow 

seperate the yellow legs up front

on this issue where
  "my own pay gets in the way "
 thats right where u cull  
          the ghouls among ya 
 so do it right nooooow 

 "One Delphi worker said 
he’d been unsuccessful
 in encouraging his co-workers
 to refuse overtime just for a week"

"just for  a week " ???

then get crackin fuzzy

cause  you iz  so far from home plate  baby
come batter up
u may 
find yourself 
 in the bleechers crushin beer cans  

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here's my idea of pie card shuffle-up-a-gus  

" the uaw  leadership
gave  a new deadline to Delphi 
 agree by x 
or we'll  plan a fight-back"

drawing bright lines is where its at 

but 

"plan " a fight back 

"plan" !!!!!!!

and this is no rope a dope

so far the pies have done nothing 
beyond release gas 
to shape the ranks up
          for a scrap 

fuck this means 
u rankers 
  are getting set up

set up 
for a classic 
       eleventh hour
lay down and roll job 


 sorrell rules

'any fuckin  dead line
 has to be a job action deadline'

fuck this 
deadline to " plan " shit 

this  smoke and mirrors farce

"do it right 
or else
we'll deal with ya latter..."

     what an  act 


that kind of  muscle   posturing 
should  be yesterdays news 

no the yesterday before last sundays news  

 
 by now .......

the leaders should be growing
 ten inch horns on their foreheads 

this isn't due deliberate speed brothers and sisters 

this is naked big toe deepest in the mud 
     
               treasonous foot dragging

shit boys and girls 
your leaders are 
using a 'work to rule' slow mo 
too

but its  against you
yourselves and yours  

 reason..

the pies are hoping to keep u
waitin and weak 

last thing they want is a ranker uprising....
against them 

listen cause there's
 a hopeful element inside this 

the pie heads
   will 
avoid a top down 
public  ranker power strip  
even more then a strike call

  yes they fear u 

so 
this stall job by the pies
is to keep u rankers un  organized 
passive and pliable  

unable to act at the  moment 
            of ultimate sell out 
unable to act till 
    'sweet reason '
can say to u 
"its too late  folks "

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pie code of sportsman ship :

play nice play clean
play to lose ....

play
politely 
  humbly and
lose 
    batheically 

to me 
these uncle walt outfits 
are an easy read

their leadership
sells out 
not 
just to keep
their  fattly upholstered status quo
yes 
 they've grown to know and love it

but hey

sellout enough and the laze boy 
is  gone someday too 

no its also done 
 cause these trimmer godlier uncle walt types
hanker after 
 the good regard of your  betters 

 often truth be told
  its  the  nyt readership
                    they're 
                  show boating for 

as in this 
clintonesque clownery 

"the UAW International
 has been organizing
 town hall meetings 
and informational pickets "

and one can imagine at each informal picket 
tea is served to one and all 
and the name of thomas jefferson is toasted 

needless to add 

"there’s been little communication 
between the leadership 
and  rank and filers 
who have been organizing ...
                their own meetings"

  ahhh now we strike sparks 

self organizing rankers ???

this has to be ignored like
             the cry 
" the fuckers are
    wearing no cloths "

but as to these 
 ranker RALLIES themselves ....

"Lockport Local 686
 held a rally November 30 
that brought hundreds out 

as did Kokomo, Indiana’s Local 292 
on December 10. "

"In central Indiana, 
an estimated 1,000 
workers and community members
 attended a rally 
in support of Delphi workers."

rally  headline : 

 “Delphi cooks the books, workers get burned.”


ugh i read stuff like that

and my gut starts
   sinking on me 
    like a cannon ball 
              in the ocean 


god love ya guys 

but is  that  all you got ???

i mean respectfully

at this point ??????

   this close to hammer time ????

-----------------

  shit when it comes 
and it will come 

 uncle walt's 
apple anny days are gone
long gone
this isn't the hat dance
delphi's fiends 
are playing here 
 this is take no prisoners 

there will be 
no splittin the difference 
 not over  this  table here 

and when the last straw
is drawn 
and it proves to be 
 not even short 
but pure  shit ..

what  will the ranker  fight back
                      be ????
in this light
i ask u

why are
  the pies  trifling  for here ????

like there will be no  hideous finale 

like it will all just keep
 simmering  down 
 simmer on simmer
  till  a fade out to flat cold nothing 

there's going to be an explosion along the way here 
you ninnies 
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 the pattern is clear 
comrades  
unless the ranks get proper organization here

they are headed toward
  one of those  age old slaughter scenes

it'll be like 
a re run 
of the  fuckin childrens' crusade 
not with  a field strewn with innocent blood and bowels 
 but with thousands   
of broken
degraded miserable souls 

its a clasic tale ...

the  righteous  and innocent 
pushed to a final act of resistence 
               ending in massacre 

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ahh gettin too heavy ...




more on the big toe dragster technique 

"In the two months 
since Delphi’s bankruptcy announcement
 the UAW has oscillated 
between bleak predictions
 and tough fighting words"

now what else does that spell but tranquilizer
doses that get higher and higher 
till the brains trust 
 cries out

"it ain't working"

and they start  

the old blanket toss

 early on gloom tranque 

by 
UAW Vice-President 
and delphi grappler
   Richard Shoemaker :

 “The best 
we will probably be able to do
... buy time for retirement 
and save some plants.” 

Later when rankers 
seem to be humbling
" fuck taking it..."
 and begin to stur 

 
shoemaker has diffy tune :

" a strike is  likely 
if Delphi doesn't 
 spice up  its ridiculous offer "

but still the no move no action 

and the false and vile hopes 

management and the pies 
let ride 

"Delphi still acts like it wants 
a  life-saving deal with GM
 GM recently volunteered to forego 
the planned 2006 price cuts 
it had previously demanded for Delphi parts"

and then there's the pies own wolf tickets:

 claiming 
despite its own billion dollar 
cave in on health 
at ' big auto 'just last year 

there's supposed to be "assurances "

' nope don't worry kids ...
it can't happen here......
well not completely anyway ...'

why?


cause 

" GM is still responsible 
for Delphi workers’ pensions"

" although no one as yet has produced
 a written guarantee to that effect"

all this just keeps rowing along

despite the fumes rising 
off the shit pile 
still called solidarity house

despite a  stench of sell out                 
no rhetorical spray  deodorant
no matter how massive  can hide 

still
 pie familiars continue their ploys 

"  hopeful Rumors abound ..."

" GM will help Delphi
even if just 
to  pacify the UAW"

"there will be  offers
of  buyouts 
for all  Delphi workers"

can anyone
imagine this board room scene

"we gotta 
we gotta
     we just gotta...pacify  the uaw "

that toothless  bow legged old sow ???

recall two years ago :


" the UAW signed an agreement
 allowing Delphi 
to cut new-hires’ wages 40% "

and all along
while spreadin em
for that unprecedented 
      rip dip and ship
   the fuckers were bleeting 
 
"what can we good guyz  do...
the  auto parts sector 
     is 80 percent 
non-union these days "
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side bar :


i really liked
 this  one line in the  article 

" All observers believe 
the International would not hesitate 
to accept wage cuts
 from the current $26
        to $16-$17 
 having bravely fended off 
management’s opening demand for $9"

after much dry blah blah

this sudden drop of sarcasm 
applied  directly 
  to the center of the wound ..

good show lass good show
 
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sum up:


yes the ghost of reuther's 
  latest spawn
are all
 ready to roll over 

but as  our reporter  
 closes 

" will the ranks follow suit?"

holy cow gal ain't that the question

ready or not 
will the kids stand tall 

 i'll be damned 
if the answer to that ain't clear 
as heaven's back door ....  
 
i say to u all 
here and now

at the end 

----   and u can 
take this to the bank friends --------

with nothing left to lose

with their toilers backs 
   to the  exit gate wall 


the hands will rise 

the klaas will come  out
                   to scrap 
 
the  wagery fighters will make a stand 


what else is left??

this isn't 1980 anymore 

this is alamo time
 right here in river city  

saints preserve us
but 
i'll let you all
fuck me in the ear 
     if i'm cockeyed on this one 

and my ears have very tiny opennings 
 
this time 
this time
this   time 
and
at long fucking last 

there will be 
       no going quietly
              into that dark nite