UNION HYPOCRISY:  In an interesting role-reversal situation, the UAW is in a negotiation as an employer with members of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) in Detroit.  OPEIU workers have filed 3 unfair labor practice complaints against UAW, reports the Detroit Free Press:

Specifically, the union alleged that the UAW-GM leaders failed to pay the OPEIU bargaining team, proposed to change workers’ health care plan and stopped bargaining at one point.

“Obviously in a world where GM is making billions of profit, we feel this contract should have been done by now,” Nix said.

A UAW spokeswoman did not respond to phone and email messages.

A key sticking point to current negotiations? OPEIU workers want guaranteed health care and retirement coverage through 2016.  Gee, wonder why an employer might find making such guarantees to be problematic in the current economic and political environment?