I think you will see GM management spend a week saying nothing....and then announce closure of a plant (it’ll be a quick 90 days or less closure as well). The union will ask to go back to the table and the management will stall for seven additional days...to set the stage. The union will try to reverse the closure and find that this is guaranteed now...and that there is a shift of work to Argentina or China or Brazil underway. Around the third week...the union will give in totally and the workers will be in total shock over medical costs left to them to manage.
You’re dreaming. This strike is all about getting us (the US taxpayer) to bail out the UAW retiree plan. The problem is GM can’t afford to keep paying those benefits. They want the government to bail them out. This strike will last long enough for the hard luck stories to start showing up on the evening news, so when the media begins crying for the government to expand into the private retirement care business, there’ll be hardly a peep from the general public.