[green iguana]

GM should cancel the UAW contract. Just cancel it.

There is no contract - that's why the UAW is striking. The UAW has been working without a new contract since Sept. 14.

[Son House]

The workers should have decertified the Union before the contract ended;

Kicking Out Your Union

Sample Decertification Forms
.pdf format .doc format

Hundreds of polls are held each year to end representation by poor union leadership

In 2004, workers successfully decertified poor representation in 65 percent of decertification elections, according to cases closed by the NLRB

While union officials try to avoid democratic secret ballots to organize workers (increasingly turning to “card check” campaigns to gain representation), they demand secret-ballot elections for ending representation
Employees who no longer want a union to represent them — whether it’s because the union is undemocratic, corrupt, violent, or just plain inept — are entitled to seek an election to determine if a majority of their coworkers wants to drop the union.

http://www.unionfacts.com/articles/memberDecertification.cfm

[Wuli]

“There is no contract - that’s why the UAW is striking. The UAW has been working without a new contract since Sept. 14.”

You are right, and my use of applicable terms was deficient.

I should have said that GM should say it is not going to try to renew a contract with the UAW.

mea culpa