American automakers need innovation, not just in design and development, but in how to run a company.
Oh, wait, this article if from 1957, but fortunately the UAW is still strong.
This is pretty much how all private-sector unions have operated over the years. They’ll cut deals to prop up their existing membership and their current leaders, even if it means screwing the next generation of workers in the process.
Union management will always have jobs. If they have to gut an industry (think steel and manufacturing) that isn’t a problem, because they will jump in a plane and go somewhere else, while the rank and file wonder what happened to their jobs.
Unions are evil. Period.
So, what is new about the UAW?
The unions have been self-destructing for decades. Unless the members have to sense and balls to chuck out their leadership and find people who can make union labor competitive again they will continue to collapse.
Report a couple of weeks back said that Buick was likely to import a crossover SUV from China.
How yinz UAW guys liking Obama NOW??
Labor unions are a business not a benevolent charity.
Union leadership uses government approved RICO tactics to limit the labor supply to a company or industry.
Union leaders are parasites.
Their product is the power to grant or withhold the permission for people to be allowed to work.
They get that power from governments - local, state and federal.
The same politicians they support with huge financial contributions of money they extorted from businesses and their members.
Then they use that power to rake off a nice big chunk of the workers wages for themselves.
They live fat, happy lives on the backs of the membership while they suck the life blood of business and industry.
They don’t care what is good for the country or the industry - their interest is getting money and power for themselves under the pretense of protecting the worker from the big, greedy capitalists.