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Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Meet the GOP's wrecking crew

Why did a small group of Southern Republicans turn the auto bailout into a demolition derby? Introducing the senators who hate unions and love foreign cars.
By Alex Koppelman and Mike Madden

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  • Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:06 AM

    UAW are not thugs or mobsters

    And they never have been. This is not the Teamsters or the Mine Workers or some 1960s English union. The UAW have been free-traders, not protectionists. The UAW have partnered with the auto companies very closely for ten years, and had the OEMs on track for a huge comeback.

    Almost all the anti-union posts here are cliche, theoretical misconceptions from people who know nothing about unions. They remind me of fundamentalists who rant about gay people, even though the do not even know any gays.

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