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Originally Posted by pan6467
See I grew up in a GM plant town and what I can say for fact is that there are union abuses, however.... unlike some I don't believe in busting the union, but I believe in management and union working together to build a better company.
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I understand, pan. My grandfather was United Steelworkers loyal up in Elyria. But, the truth is that as we continue to move to a global workplace, unions weigh down a corporation with some ideal that it can stay 1950 forever. For the last 20 years they have been hanging on for dear life, but we are sending companies, that represent a lot to the confidence of americans as a whole, into a fight with one arm.
UAW lost any authority after the first government bailout of GM back in 1979, imo. It showed the system was flawed, and the union should have been shown the door back than. GM just announced 25,000 job cuts. The union has failed those workers, and they have failed the company by negotiating in bad faith for short term gains that aren't economically sustainable. We can't let these "labor officials" run every factory out of the US...