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UAW President Bob King: New contracts help auto industry honor intent of bailouts, create jobs

UAW President Bob King expects recent contract negotiations with General Motors and Ford will directly create or save up to 18,000 jobs in the United States, and he believes the ripple effect could result in up to 180,000 jobs industry-wide.

GM workers ratified their new contract earlier this week, and union members at Ford are expected to vote on a similar package some time in the next week.

“It’s a good deal for the company, it’s a good deal for our membership, but what we’re really proud of is that it’s a good deal for the United State of America,” King told host Paul W. Smith this morning on WJR-AM 760. “More jobs, which we need desparately.”

Read more at: http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2011/10/uaw_president_bob_king_says_ne.html

As a daughter of a Autoworker, sister, cousin, granddaughter, god daughter, niece etc etc….I know how important Auto Industry jobs are and how they create still more jobs in a supply chain as well as support local businesses as diverse as restaurants, bait shops, gas stations and grocery stores.  It’s all interconnected as can easily been seen by the examples of Flint and Detroit Michigan, when a community loses it’s auto foundries and assembly plants… the whole community loses.