Unions, like governments, ruin everything that they touch.
Like Avogadro’s law, they expand to fill the available space, forcing out every other concern until there is nothing left.
Welcome to capitalism in the 21 st century. The end result of free trade and globalism is to replace high cost labor with low cost labor. Without tariffs and government imosed quotas, middle class jobs in industrialized countries will move to locations where lower wages can be realized. Workers losing jobs in higher labor cost areas will have to accept a lower standard of living and loss of employment security or become wards of the state (if the state is willing to carry them). We’ve seen this play out in the USA over the last 20 years once we made the decision to lower our tariffs and eliminate quotas. The EU is now experiencing the same decline of the middle class.
However the back drop is more complicated....
* VW is the Dominant Player with low content value cars.
* Opel, the millstone around GM's neck sucks up resources, adds useless capacity and one may ask will this be the straw to break GM's Back again.
* The European Economy only adds to the woes.
I don't see why Spain with all it's problems is the best solution to consolidate, that one will take some time to wrap my arms around or pick up the phone to speak with my auto gnomes....