[CaptainCrunch]

I think there needs to be some seperation here.

Yes everyone has the right to work, there's no question about that. However its the ability to work thats going to be threatened.

Nobody neccessarily has the right to work for 70 dollars an hour in a industry that is being killed by the current global threat of recession. The U.S. automotive industry is bloated, and inefficient, and its arrogant as well. They are learning the same lessons now that they had to learn during the oil crisis in the 70's when they were building big gass guzzlers while the Asian car companies were building tiny gas efficient cars.

Right now the only place that the automotive industry can logically cut is in its manufacturing and logistics arms. If people aren't going to buy cars then those 40, 50, 60, dollar per hour workers have to go, and those outlying manufacturing plants have to go. For the most part the Canadian Manufacturers are probably going to have to go because Ford, GM etc are American Companies first and if they have to poop on the Canadian employment rate to save their own then they will without hesitation.

Someone mentioned above that the destruction of the auto industry in the U.S. is a death knell for the U.S. economy because of confidence, and he's correct, and the government will step in to save them, if the Auto industry takes significant steps to save itself.

The Unions, and especially CAW seem to have a real muddled view of modern day reccession economics. By refusing to even talk about pay or benefits cuts, they're effectively backing the auto industry into a corner where they just might say screw Canada, they're union is impossible to deal with.

And if Canadian manufacturing gets hit its going to ripple right across all sectors of Canadian Business, and we will be pulled kicking and screaming into the same hole that all of the other nations in the world are facing no matter what our banking industry is doing.