If they are such a brotherhood, maybe the union members should all chip in individually to a common fund and help each other out that way.
I think you are on to something here. This would be a bailout of the UAW as much as the auto companies, and a big payoff to the union member block vote for the Democrats.
I worked for Chrysler UAW at an auto plant in metro Detroit from about 1993 -2003 as a Reading-Writing-Computer instructor for those who, on their own time, sought to improve their basic skills. Although many were foreign born.most had U.S. education, many drop outs. I assisted those with sometimes beginning reading skills to skilled tradesmen and some who were working on college English classes. I had a janitor who was a fine man, but in the beginning to read category and he earned, with overtime in about 2003, $130,000. in addition to health benefits that were better than the white collar workers at the auto industry at the time. At that time, I was earning $37,500 with health benefits from a University that supplied the program. My other students, especially the skilled tradesmen earned more than what the janitor earned.
Cordio