Why I hate UAW: Because it Breeds Racism

There are many reasons why I hate UAW. Forget about the stereotypes of being an inefficient labor force. Forget what you here on the news about cost structures being completely ridiculous. You can debate that all you want and there are plenty places to debate those points of view.

The number 1 reason why I hate UAW is that imho it's an organization that breads racism in America and particularly hostile to (1) asian-americans and (2) educated individuals and (3) engineers that attempt to innovate, all in the name of "job protection".

So while am I definitely for supporting buying "American made" products in general, or products sold by American companies, I cannot and will not ever support a new product made by UAW, regardless of make or model. That includes GM,Ford,Chrysler (err Fiat I mean) made in the USA, or any Toyota product made in the NUMMI factory in Fremont, California. I have no problem buying a GM Camaro built in Canada, or a Pontiac G8 imported for Australia. But, no sir, never something from UAW here in the U.S. EVAR!


Let's take a trip down memory lane. So who exactly is Vicent Chin?
Well, there's been a lot of articles written about him...

Here's a starter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Chin

But...to summarize.
Two UAW workers back in 82 were laid off, and pissed. They decided that wanted to kick the crap out of a Japanese since obviously Japanese companies were to blame for their job loss. So two guys decide to grab a few baseball bats and beat the shit of of someone asian looking dude they thought looks sortof Japanese...Except, what they did was beat up and killed a chinese-american dude that had nothing to do with Japan, Toyota, Honda. Just some poor dude that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ironically, the two folks are still free Americans, have served no prison time for their crime, as court cases were dismissed based on technicalities.

And ironically, at no point did UAW EVER issue a statement condemning such actions...In fact, quite the opposite. Being involved in several anti-asian watchdog group, we've researched the very policies and antics of UAW and quite contrary some of there messaging is extremely provocative in supporting "Asia-Bashing"....which has the unintended consequences of translating into some Americans as "Asian-looking-bashing"....

This article sums up the state of what transpires from UAW.

http://www.the-spark.net/np683204.html


June marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a 27-year-old Chinese-American draftsman, in Detroit, Michigan. On June 19, 1982, Chin was beaten to death on the street by Ronald Ebens, a Chrysler supervisor and Michael Nitz, Ebens’ laid-off stepson. The two had earlier yelled racist insults at Chin and his friends in a bar where Chin was celebrating his upcoming marriage. After Chin and his friends left, Ebens and Nitz tracked them down and attacked with baseball bats.

Ebens had yelled, “It’s because of you little motherfuckers that we’re out of work.” The two autoworkers mistakenly thought Chin and his friends were Japanese. For them Chinese, Japanese – it made no difference. They were simply repeating the mindless propaganda then being spewed out by the auto bosses and repeated by the UAW (United Auto Workers). Supposedly imports of Japanese autos were the cause of layoffs in the U.S. auto industry. Demanding big concessions in wages and benefits from workers in the early 1980s, the auto companies claimed it was necessary to help them meet the competition from Japanese auto companies.

Not only did the UAW accept the auto bosses’ arguments – and their demands for concessions – it also stepped up a vile anti-Japanese demagogy. The union banned Japanese cars from parking lots at union offices and halls. Some union officials threatened workers who parked Japanese cars at work. Other union officials organized workers to smash Japanese cars with sledge hammers in PR events for the media. And the UAW distributed racist bumper stickers with slant-eyed smiley faces on them.

The murder of Vincent Chin was a kind of lynching, for which the UAW had laid the groundwork.

Twenty years after the murder of Vincent Chin, many more domestic autos are produced in the U.S. – but by many fewer workers. Jobs were not lost to Japanese producers – but to the speed-up drive of U.S. bosses – a drive which the UAW abetted with its racist anti-Japanese sloganeering and the partnership it openly joined with the auto companies. The U.S. auto bosses are the ones who have benefitted from the vastly increased productivity of autoworkers, not the workers.

What the UAW did prepared a tragedy for Detroit workers in many ways. Not only could they not defend themselves from their real enemy, they were dehumanized with at least some of them turned into brutes who carried out a racist lynching – or who applauded it.



...and that's exactly why I will never support UAW.