AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

Look Back at Hof's Blog -March & April 2005

Indirect bad news for UAW-LSP attorneys continued and was pretty much unabated. Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis ended their UAW-LSP coverage for new hires. GM closed its Lansiing Michigan plant. GM also halted development on its Zeta rear-wheel drive platform, a platform that would have competed with the Chrysler 300 and possibly would have spawned a new Camaro. The fan was starting to get pretty messy at Delphi as a lot of problems started coming to a head.

Despite the problems, I put in a reminder that being a rich lawyer is not necessarily better than being a poor UAW-LSP lawyer, especially when you're a rich stupid lawyer. Richard Hatch, the (formerly) fat, naked guy from survivor, a lawyer by trade, got into trouble for not paying taxes on the $1 million that he got from CBS as well as from other income.

On the lighter side, I posted the link to the Koko Gorilla site. Koko was in the news later in the year when her handler was sued for sexual harassment by demanding that female staff members show Koko their breasts whenever Koko, by sign language, requested it.

March was also the month of the "Numa Numa" dance.

April was a slow month for auto news. Chrysler announced that it was considering exporting cars from China to the United States. Nissan reported record profits.

BARF, the pet name for the Bankruptcy Abuse and Prevention Act, was in the news. I reprinted the letter that I got from Democratic Senator Evan Bayh wherein he explained why he voted for the bill. If you can figure out from that letter the reason other than undue influence and/or political posturing for a 2008 presidential bid, then you have one up on me.

The animal of the month was the Cambodian River Stingray.