CAW 'furious' at Ontario over pensions

[ferkel]

http://www.wheels.ca/reviews/article/530788

Those bastards hahahaha



'What good is a pension guaranteed fund if it's not there when you need it?'
Apr 09, 2009

Comments on this story (38)

Romina Maurino and Kristine Owram
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Visibly upset members of the Canadian Auto Workers said today that they are "furious" that the Ontario government has abandoned its responsibility to retirees by underfunding a provincial safety net for pension funds.

They were responding to Premier Dalton McGuinty's assertion that the province's pension safety net isn't even close to large enough to cover auto workers if General Motors goes bankrupt.

"To suggest that retirees will bear of the brunt of something they have no control over is just unconscionable," CAW president Ken Lewenza said at a press conference today.

"I can't even suggest to you how furious we are as an organization to suggest that our retirees won't be treated with decency and respect during this crisis. What good is a pension guaranteed fund if it's not there when you need it?"

[Rehan]

Yeah, this will certainly make the average tax-paying Canadian love the CAW even more...

[Pete_Coach]

Yea, I am having some difficulty digging up sympathy for the CAW.
Where other car manufacturers were cutting costs, having difficulty in the market, the CAW wanted to go on strike for more money. Yup, priced their employer right out of business and want Ontarians to pay their pensions out. Hmmmm, difficult to feel for them.

[Vladimir]

wtf. So taxpayers, who probably a good portion of themselves won't be making pension and probably only make $15-20 an hour, have to pay pension to those workers who were making $30 an hour? Wow.
Cry me a river CAW

[Tomato_1]

Add me to the chorus of who gives a F*ck.

Yeah want me to work harder so your lazy SOB which drove your respective employers to the ground. NOw you want me to give you my hard earned money so you don't have to lift a finger. Go flips some burgers you over paid workers.


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[blakjak]

Boo hoo!

[bahasad]

Add me to the chorus of who gives a F*ck.

Yeah want me to work harder so your lazy SOB which drove your respective employers to the ground. NOw you want me to give you my hard earned money so you don't have to lift a finger. Go flips some burgers you over paid workers.

+ 1 and couldn't say better myself. Lazy, greedy bastards.

[MasterXan]

Ken Lewenza should retire just like Ron Middlefinger

[Jon Lai]

Did I just miss something on the news lately? So McGuinty did a good thing for once?

[ponti3800]

Did I just miss something on the news lately? So McGuinty did a good thing for once?

What is wrong with CPP? Everybody else seems to happy with it.

[Engi-Nir]

Did I just miss something on the news lately? So McGuinty did a good thing for once?

it is called a re-election ploy of his probably

[najibs]

THe CAW's greed for refusing to cut back benefits and wages has finally caught up with them. I can only summarize their demise based on one word...GREED.

THey wanted more and more, for doing nothing, and finally now that the company is going under, it's too late. Boo hoo CAW. Cry me a river.

I realize not every person that's in the CAW is a bad person, and I feel bad for their families, but hey, they're where they are at because of greed. Sure it's not just the union to blame, it's the consumer underconfidence in their inferior product but for a good reason. The whole company was destined for failure, and they didn't change the path they were headed in. Not just the union. It was a series of events that lead to this. It's about time these companies go bankrupt, re-structure, in order to re-emerge witha new plana nd focus, and THAT is when success is more realistic.

[Ray]

Those CAW people are sure greedy. How about those people who are living off CPP and OAS only? I think they deserve better too. Maybe the retirees with no company pension can give up their government pensions so that the CAW workers can have the lifestyle they are used to.

[ivica5683]

Yea, I am having some difficulty digging up sympathy for the CAW.
Where other car manufacturers were cutting costs, having difficulty in the market, the CAW wanted to go on strike for more money. Yup, priced their employer right out of business and want Ontarians to pay their pensions out. Hmmmm, difficult to feel for them.

Sympathy!!!!!!!!, you won't get it here either. Wait some of the retirees will have difficulty paying bills.
My parents retired on CPP and OAS, never ate out in restaurants, never owned a cottage, lived a frugal life. They retired with no benefits, they learned to garden, grow their own vegetables. They are survivors. The CAW are a bunch of spoiled brats. Massive hourly wages, strikes, sit around reading the paper, ***** , ***** and complain and now life has caught up to them.
For those that never had it good it's easy since they don't have to adapt. For those that have had it and now won't, it will be tough.

Survivors, Let's see who are the real survivors. Let's see who is fit.
This is quite natural, evolution at it's finest all before our own eyes.

[look30]

Boo hoo!

I was about to say the same

How about our pensions ?!