I’ll bet the Chinese cars aren’t made by the UAW.
You are right, but we have to remember the purpose
of the unions. The UAW was simply the instrument that
was used to transfer the largest corporation in the
world for decades to a foreign adversary. With out
a union, GM could have made layoffs, furloughs, cutbacks,
downsizing, firings, etc. to make it competitive in
the world market. The legacy costs from union membership
and family obligations made that impossible.
Let’s see- start working at a GM plant at age 18.
Work thirty years. Retire at 48 y.o.
Draw very costly retirement benefits and medical for forty
more years. Draining the company of well over any
worth that he added to the company. Multiply by a factor
of millions, you have recipe for a sure death. But,
if you transfer your remaining capital to a non-union
country, then you can attempt to put it back together
under another flag. NLRB, was the single most destructive
bureaucracy (so-called independent agency) ever instituted
by our federal government. This happened in 1934, and
you know who was in office- FDR. Our now second most
socialist president ever. We got to hold on until
November. God help us all, if we do not take back both
houses.