More accurately, they should have gone thru bankruptcy like a normal company where their assets would have been sold off to new owners who wouldn’t have had to deal with all of the UAW anti-competitive insanity. Instead, the Gov’t strong-armed the various parties in bankruptcy purely so that the UAW couldn’t benefit at the expense of everyone else.
“so that the UAW couldn’t benefit at the expense of everyone else”
I think you meant “COULD” not couldn’t.