Letters to the editor

On the Tea Party

With a corporate-run media we will not get the full story. Instead the media is constantly perpetuating an angry and hostile organization with no substance in their agenda. Or do they even have one?

I am stumped as to why the Tea Party leaders will not meet with President Obama directly. Instead they are cashing in on their victims. Thank you for what you are doing. The opposition far outweighs this group. But until the public receives the true story the sad saga will continue until it erupts and someone gets hurt. After all, people enjoy reality shows and want to become one.

Thank you for your efforts as we watch this unfold and continue to strive against it.

Cheryl W.

More on the Tea Party

Where have you been all my life? Just finished reading about the anti-racists in Boston on your website. It’s about time someone answered these people and let them know we oppose them and the message they carry. It’s about time someone did some truth telling at these events.

Are you nationally organized? I’m in Birmingham, Ala. How can I participate?

Glenda D.

On closing of Twinsburg plant

I both sympathize & appreciate your heartfelt article regarding the unfortunate, but all too common shuttering of the Twinsburg plant. [“Workers, communities devastated as — Auto plants closed, sold off and destroyed,” by Martha Grevatt, WW, April 15.]

I live in Kenosha, WI (home of Chrysler’s Kenosha Engine, Local 72), and I’m the president of Local 75, the Milwaukee National Parts Distribution Center (Mopar), in Milwaukee. I can’t help but question the logic behind the demise of TSP, Kenosha Engine (KEP), St. Louis N & S, as well as the many other facilities including parts depots.

I am well aware of TSP’s many accomplishments and dedicated workforce. KEP was named manufacturer of the year, twice. They have a great work force, and an incredible history in this city.

At one time, over 14,000 people worked at the assembly plant. But later the “lake front” facility was destroyed, through the Chrysler/AMC tie up, around 1988.

My Grandfather (retired/deceased) and my Father (retired from Milw) were both a part of UAW Local 72 leadership in Kenosha. Other family members of mine worked hard and earned a good wage as Kenosha workers at one time. The plant provided a solid and successful middle class in Kenosha.

I am disappointed that it will not continue and ask many of the same questions you mention in your article.

I don’t have an answer.

Good luck with whatever path you may take as a displaced Union Autoworker. I wish you the best and thank you for sharing what so many of ours will face in the coming time.

Feel free to keep in touch.

In Solidarity,

Peter J. Raith
President, UAW Local 75
Milwaukee Natl. Parts Depot