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Ask Your Representative to Tell GM and Chrysler: Don't Destroy American Jobs
The taxpayer funded bailout of GM and Chrysler, to the tune of more than $60 billion, was meant to save jobs and allow deserving American corporations to survive. But GM and Chrysler now want to throw professional auto delivery drivers onto the unemployment lines and replace them with carriers using less reliable drivers.
The restructuring of the auto industry required shared sacrifice not just of the companies, but also of the suppliers and auto delivery employees. Auto delivery employees have already taken steep wage cuts, upwards of 17.5 percent, to ensure the long-term viability of the auto industry and of auto carrier companies. Even if the automakers make these cuts, the cost savings would be very small. Even worse, this cost reduction would not be passed on to either dealers or consumers.
Representative Joe Baca from California is collecting signatures for a letter to GM and Chrysler to help save these jobs. Please help by sending an e-mail to your Representative today asking for sign-on to this important letter.
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Subject: Please Tell GM and Chrysler: Don't Destroy American Jobs
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
The American taxpayers bailed out Chrysler with $14 billion and General Motors with $50 billion of our hard-earned wages. This bailout was meant to save jobs and allow deserving American corporations to survive.
But now both GM and Chrysler want to throw professional auto delivery drivers onto the unemployment lines and replace them with carriers using less reliable drivers. We believe many of these replacement drivers come with comparatively little experience, inadequate training, no accountability, and inadequate equipment. Some of them are hauling new cars with flat bed trucks or other equipment which is not designed to protect new cars over long distances.
GM and Chrysler are betraying the faith of the American taxpayers who thought GM and Chrysler would repay them with gratitude and loyalty instead of greed.
Representative Joe Baca from California is collecting signatures for a letter to GM and Chrysler to help save these good-paying jobs and to keep skilled drivers on the roads. Please sign on to Representative Baca's letter and tell GM and Chrysler to stop destroying families and stop dumping loyal American workers.
Sincerely,
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