I don't know. Are they overpaid, undereducated union employees with bad attitudes? Then probably not. Maybe if the union hadn't hamstrung GM with ridiculous work rules it's possible the company wouldn't be circling the bowl.
the US used to be a place where even a high school graduate could get a job, skilled or semi-skilled, and afford the basics of a middle class life - including a wife who did not have to work, and children.
Yeah, after WW II destroyed the manufacturing capacity of every country from France in the west to Japan in the east. If only we could go back to those days every high school graduate could make $100,000 a year. Too bad we can't go back to those days.
Union employees are less then 15% of the labor force and dropping, that excuse is worn out and tired. The 60 THOUSAND or so jobs lost in furniture manufacturing (now in China) from NC were not Union jobs, they're people (many of whom) are now sitting on welfare unemployed and thanks be we can save a dollar or two on cheaply made Chinese junk furniture while paying out ten or twenty dollars in extra taxes or debt spending to cover the terminally unemployed. Whoopy. As always, you and yours ignore the social costs that society has to pick up and pay, that out weigh the few dollars saved.