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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
There's your problem right there.
Th union doesn't realize that they are the reason the plants aren't sustainalbe, and that they are the reason the plants will leave.
If they do take large enough concessions, the plants will stay.
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Yea, but the real problem is that the unions have been blocking the automakers (no, I'm not absolving the execs of all responsibility, just some of it) from making the plants more efficient, ie: using robots.
The CAW has spent decades blocking the big 3 from making their plants more efficient because it eliminates union jobs. That is my biggest problem with unions. If they would understand that as technology advances, some of them would have to (ideally be retrained but ultimately) get new jobs, then the union would remain healthy.
Union mentality = love your co-worker
Union Boss mentality = 19th century
Call me a rubbernecker, but I can't wait to see the fallout from one of the big 3 actually going bankrupt.
Right now they're fighting as useless a battle as the NHLPA did in '04. We can all see now that some scrubs lost their jobs, but the truly useful ones are making as much money as ever. The CAW needs to realize that they're a 20th century fighter against a 21st century juggernaut.