Outsourcing Jeep

Chrysler has been bought by Fiat, now the CEO wants to build Jeeps in Italy. In the name of ‘profit’ we here in why did you join the union are dismayed that our brethren UAW are quiet. We do not believe that silence is a sign of acquiesce that would allow Jeep to be built overseas cheaply at the expense of its membership. We here in why did you join the union say no to the Fiat CEO idea on the other hand when Mercedes Benz owned chrysler they were much better because they did not build Jeeps out of Germany, and they did not want to destroy the middle class.

Profit should not supersede the membership, and if this idea becomes a reality it may be too late for the UAW to act. It is obvious the new CEO will close some domestic plant which he will deem unprofitable - this idea must be tackled at its infancy before maturing into reality. 

Outsourcing of the Jeep should not be allowed, the UAW plants will be closed and that in turn would harm the membership and increase the number of the unemployed. The CEO’s idea is to manufacture Jeep cheaply. In the 1990s Boeing and General Motors had their ideas of pursuing outsourcing which were stopped by strikes which in turn defeated those ideas to materialize. We would like to remind UAW if those strikes were successful then they would have accomplish the goal of overcoming Boeing and GM. Now is the time to stop outsourcing the Jeep to teach a lesson to the Fiat CEO that membership comes before profit.

We hope the leadership at UAW is not at sleep at the switch, and we would like to believe they are AAA(Alert And Alive) in protecting their membership. They have to keep on going where everyone else is giving up because we cannot afford to see families forced to welfare based on the idea of profit.