Originally Posted by QuasiMondo

I'm loathe to make the UAW a scapegoat out of all of this. The UAW isn't the reason GM stuck with two vehicle platforms for over 20 years, both of them being vastly inferior to anything the competition, both domestic and otherwise offered. The UAW isn't the reason Mercedes-Benz fed Chrysler nothing but scraps from their engineering table, leaving them with two outdated platforms and a diesel engine that's not even available in the U.S. The UAW didn't go on a buying spree, buying up Jaguar, Aston-Martin, Land Rover, and Volvo instead of turning Lincoln and Mercury into marques that could compete with those companies. When sales of the Tahoe, Explorer, and Ram were generating hefty profits for these companies, nobody complained about UAW health care benefits and wages, so why should we complain about them now? It's fallacious to assume that Detroit can't compete with these unions holding them down, when their past performance has shown otherwise.