My father-in-law worked as a consultant for the big 3. He tells me stories of how the unions require two workers for a particular job, yet the job can be done by one person. He found guys who, instead of sharing the load, have one do the work while the other sleeps off the partying from the night before. The next night they switch places.
He also saw guys that had been laid off sitting in the breakroom drinking coffee and reading the paper. Why were they there? Union rules. Were they getting paid? You betcha.
Overblown salaries, huge pensions, benefit packages...it all adds up to greed. How many of you are making $70 an hour? How many of you are guaranteed $35 an hour if you get laid off? How many of you are guaranteed health care for life? Hell, I'm retired military and don't have health care for life.
Unions had their place years ago when guys were walking steel 50 stories high with no safety requirements. Now the unions are out for themsleves. Money is the key to their success and will also be their downfall.
The management are also to blame. They're begging for a bailout to retool? Are you fucking kidding me? The time to retool was 10 years ago. What do they say about that? "We had no idea it would happen like this." Bullshit! That's their fucking job and they failed.
Imagine any one of them having the foresight to make a fuel efficient car 10 years ago. Then take that car and make it even better. By now it would be getting 100mpg and be selling like hotcakes. No, instead they build Hummers by the thousands. Not one of those fuckers earning millions a year saw any of this coming? I mean...wtf?!! Isn't that why they are chosen to run their company?
So I say wooohooo! No bailout for you.
