As a taxpayer, I own part of the local county jail but I don’t care to pay a sales call...
I think if you study the issue you will find that GM was already on the way to reshape the organization. They had a two teir wage scale in place. They got concessions from the Union including the ridding of the Jobs Bank. But the world wid recession kicked all of them in the butt. Including all foreign car companies. BUT they are still AMERICAN! And want to be a publically not government owned company.