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Originally Posted by iank2112  Actually, the UAW has already made some significant concessions over the past few years.
Newly employed UAW workers earn significantly less, and have less medical and retirement
benefits. Also, GM was on the verge of sloughing off most of their pension with the
UAW's support just to keep things afloat. For all of the UAW's efforts over the past few
years to make things the way they are now, they do acknowledge that they will have to
give up a lot to keep the industry afloat. And, without the Big Three, that's a lot of
unemployed union members.
Ian |
Yes, it seems to me that the US auto industries can't do anything without first doing something about the UAW. Bob Lutz seems to have been doing an excellent job at GM with turning out some very nice cars in the past couple of years. We have the new cobalt SS, Camaro, G8, Cruz, etc... The problem doesn't seem to be the cars or the leadership, it's the unions.
Ford has some good cars in Europe, but for some reason hasn't imported them to the US. I could care less about Chrysler.
Another question would be if GM and Ford could survive by filing Chapter 11 instead of receiving a bailout from the Government.