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Well, it's a good thing the Detroit auto bailout went through...

Volpone

Volpone

Zombie Hunter
...otherwise the UAW probably couldn't afford to keep operating a 33 million dollar golf course/retreat with a private lake at around a $5 million a year loss.
Autoworkers Union Keeps $6 Million Golf Course for Members at $33 Million Lakeside Retreat
Friday, December 26, 2008

The United Auto Workers may be out of the hole now that President Bush has approved a $17 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry, but the union isn't out of the bunker just yet.

Even as the industry struggles with massive losses, the UAW brass continue to own and operate a $33 million lakeside retreat in Michigan, complete with a $6.4 million designer golf course. And it's costing them millions each year.

The UAW, known more for its strikes than its slices, hosts seminars and junkets at the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Mich., which is nestled on "1,000 heavily forested acres" on Michigan's Black Lake, according to its Web site.

But the Black Lake club and retreat, which are among the union's biggest fixed assets, have lost $23 million in the past five years alone, a heavy albatross around the union's neck as it tries to manage a multibillion-dollar pension plan crisis.

Critics call it a resort for union leaders that wastes money from union dues. ...
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Ya think?
 
But, but, but you can't badmouth unions!!!

If it weren't for them we'd all be working for a dollar a day at some fatcat's deathtrap of a factory!
 
Where's Chris? We need to kick him in the balls over this. Chris, come over here and explain this for us! I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation for all this, we're just not getting the Whole Story. :cylon:
 
Volpone said:
The UAW, known more for its strikes than its slices, hosts seminars and junkets at the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Mich., which is nestled on "1,000 heavily forested acres" on Michigan's Black Lake, according to its Web site.
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What are the topic of these seminars... "How to sabotage a vehicle in such a way that it will require thousands of dollars worth of work as soon as it is out of warranty?"
 
Volpone said:
Where's Chris? We need to kick him in the balls over this. Chris, come over here and explain this for us! I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation for all this, we're just not getting the Whole Story. :cylon:
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I brought ti up in a response to him two weeks ago.

He ignored it.
 
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