Not to put down "Joe Lunchbucket", because I know a number of those guys, but you can always tell when it's payday at the Ford plant by the number of people playing the "cardboard crack" tear-off tickets at the local pub...
Assembly line workers who can afford to drop $200 a night on instant-win tickets in between complaining about Bush and the economy... makes ya wonder.
I'll never forget UAW treatment of returning Iraq War vets during the 2004 Presidential election campaign. And the coast to coast union thug behavior of the last two Presidential elections. If I can make a point of buying non-union now, I do.
The best thing that could happen to the American auto industry would be for the big three to file bankruptcy protection, reorganize and tell the unions to pound sand.