Last weekend I spent 4 hours sitting in a car stereo installation place (that for legal reasons shall go unnamed) listening to the most repetitive, annoying, almost seizure-inducing techno music man has ever devised while waiting to have my truck made iPod compatible. That experience was like catching a 5-pound bass while winning the lottery compared to the thought of blogging about the UAW strike on GM. But you buy the ticket, take the ride — as the Good Doctor used to say.
The nail-biter went on for a full two days before a deal was reached, ending the first UAW strike against GM in 37 years. Hoover’s Tim Walker very ably covered the nuts and bolts of the deal, and his analysis is spot-on. But I could not agree less with Tim about wanting to see a longer strike. What’s the matter, Tim? Don’t you have enough to do over there?
The journalistic side of me would have liked the dispute to be settled in about five minutes with GM CEO Rick Wagoner challenging UAW president Ron Gettelfinger to a bout of Rock’em Sock’em Robots — winner take all (with the theme music from Over the Top playing in the background, of course).
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