now. steve: hey, everybody. you know what, in the break, tobo was playing alvin and the chipmunk, they used to play that when i was a little kid. gretchen: really? steve: back in the day. back in the 1960s, whenever. a lot of people thought when i was that anal, how did they teach those chipmunk to sing. eric: amazing. gretchen: actually kids still today think that because they ve had the brilliant idea of having several alvin and the chipmunk movies that i have been honored to go to. and i think they had a christmas one one time. steve: eric bolling is busy today. eric: nothing to say about the chipmunks. steve: he s in today. gretchen: we have headlines. developing story overnight, a medical chopper went down last night leaving three people dead and officials just reporting that icing on the aircraft may
they make the photo books. they ve got seasonal positions open in phoenix, arizona, charlotte, north carolina, 2,000 jobs. these are going to be open through the end of the month. shutterfly. eric: number two? wal-mart. you were talk being them. they hired the most that they ve had in years as many people have. these jobs will go through the end of december. people that can be sales associates, customer service. some associate december stay after the holidays. some of these jobs become full time with benefits. 4,000 stores across the country. they employ 1.4 million people, hence the importance of wal-mart in the health care discussion. we ve got to get to the other three. what do you mean seasonal? do people get laid off after the season? not necessarily. some of these jobs will continue. they will be able to stay at the company, but yes, some seasonal jobs are only through the end of december, maybe into january to help kind of do all the clean-up, after christmas sales if yo
they released a statement while the company doesn t agree with the ultimate decision of the arbitrator, we respect the grievance procedure process and the relationship with the uaw. folks, how would you like to buy the car that built by those guys in the afternoon? gretchen: it is interesting, i wonder how important it was it was off duty conduct. there must be rules written in as long as they were not doing it technically on duty and were on lunch duty. i am not a lawyer. but i bet that was part of the arbitrator deciding in their favor, but it goes to show why all . people are showing up in michigan today because if you are part of the union. they are great, they are great at keeping your jobs for you. they are. eric: any other job on the planet. if you were caught in the parking lot drinking one of the bottles was beer and
24th state that would be a right to work state. recently it happened in wisconsin and there was a lot of uprigs. last year it happened in indiana. it seems to be a trend. really it s spurred on by the voters. they vote in this referendum, as they did in michigan. then it s up to the governor to sign it into law and because there are now 30-plus governors who are republicans across the country that, is one of the reasons they tend to be more in favor of this. eric: it s kind of interesting that there is pushback coming from the union, coming from the labor leaders because michigan has a 9.1% unemployment rate. ohio next door, who also competes for auto jobs, 6.9%. john kasich has done a good job there. wisconsin also competes for auto jobs as well. 6.9%. so why not try something different? remember joanne watson, the council woman who said, hey, president obama, bring home the bacon where. is our bailout? we voted for you. detroit city council woman.
give credit for. clearly the democratic party nationally and in michigan favor collective bargaining but voters in michigan decided to have individual rights. gretchen: but will the party like that because of the unions give so much money to the party or they believe in the strength of the union and helping the worker. there is a little bit of all of it. this is a vicious circle because unions give money to politicians and who then enact laws that the unions like and they keep reelecting them. occasionally the voters will with that. eric: judge, the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent . in the surrounding states is lower. maybe they are trying to keep a few jobs in the state. the automobile building is suppressed no matter how much