GM should cancel the UAW contract. Just cancel it.
Then it should send recruiters to all the US cities with Toyota, Honda and Nissan plants.
It should offer 5% more in salary than paid to those plants’ non-union workers; and it should offer the same year-end bonus plans and the same level of benefit contributions as the Asian big-three now offer their U.S. workers.
That 5% wage-increase, with everything else equal will still be $billions cheaper than the UAW contract and should get enough workers from some of the currently employed non-UAW workers and from the unemployed UAW workers who want work instead of welfare. Yes welfare, because the current UAW contract has GM paying salaries to its laid-off UAW workers, who have already passed the point of eligibility for unemployment benefits. That could coax many of those previously laid-off workers who have not yet taken other employment, and who would immediately loose any income they have, to willingly take the non-union GM jobs, ahead of currently employed UAW workers, who would still get some period of union strike-pay and then unemployment.
I think it’s time the US big three automakers started operating in the domestic US market on a equal pay-scale and benefits level with the Asian big-three, who seem to have no problem getting enough workers and keeping them.
There is no contract - that's why the UAW is striking. The UAW has been working without a new contract since Sept. 14.