[madison10]

You got it, fire all the strikers, and bring on new help, there’s plenty around to do the work UAW members won’t do.

Who said they wouldn't do the work? Heck, they'd be willing to take a pay cut to keep their jobs. Why should they do ALL of that...pay cuts, benefit cuts, etc. if GM cannot say that their jobs will be there tomorrow?

I feel badly for GM. There should have been a way to work it out. The UAW leadership can be trusted about as far as you can throw a Buick.

[Son House]

Jobs bank programs — 12,000 paid not to work

Big 3 and suppliers pay billions to keep downsized UAW members on payroll in decades-long deal.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/17/A01-351179.htm