would not even change their minds.
I guess they don’t understand the law
of supply & demand.
Car sales will be way off in 2009.
I don’t think GM will increase it’s
marketshare with the world’s
economy going down the toilet.
Even if the UAW worked for FREE
it would be too little too late.

to take care of the Big 3′s competitive disadvantage. Put the Southern plants under the UAW master and let them pay the benefits for the guy that built Edsels.

Classic union solution to a union problem… “We cost too much, how can we fix it… I know, make our competitors charge more!”
Unionize the transplants and watch their plants – and their jobs – move to other countries. Wonderful, we will have Hondas built in Mexico instead of Ohio. They will take the tooling and leave in a heartbeat, as they have very little tied up in the facilities – the taxpayers footed the bills for most of these places.

A company known for retirement and healthcare should have a car assembly plant or two so they don’t look like they are just a company of retirement and healthcare.

Was there anyone who didn’t know that if the demands of the host company were too high, the host company dies? Unions have lost their usefulness in a modern society.

Bankruptcy. It’s the only solution for businesses that are no longer going concerns.

Listening to Gettelfinger comment on UAW contract negotiations is like listening to the tapeworm discuss its plan on how much sustenance to rob from its host. You don’t want to kill your host but then again you don’t want to pass up an opportunity to get fat at someone else’s expense. The host exists for your benefit. The UAW is nothing more than a parasite upon the firm. A punishment for a bad choice that never, ever leaves you.

The UAW is bad for America and it needs to be gone. That is on my top ten list of executive actions should I ever be elected generalissimo of this country.

I seems quite clear to me that they pretty much have a never ending series of blank checks, er I mean economic stimulus infrastructure payments coming.

Well how could you go wrong with genius moves like this:

Also Monday, GM selected a Korean company to provide lithium-ion batteries for its Chevrolet Volt electric car and said it will set up a plant in Michigan to eventually package the batteries into the large assemblies needed to power the vehicle.

GM said the plant will be located in Michigan, giving a boost to its beleaguered home state. It chose LG Chem Ltd. to supply the batteries, passing over an American company that was in the running, A123 Systems Inc., of Watertown, Mass.

So GM thinks it’s a good idea to build a new plant — in Michigan of all places… filled with UAW employees, no doubt — to build battery packs for its $40k subcompact car, which is certain to be a huge hit. Will they even make any money on them at $40k a pop? Or is this another one of those things they have to sell at a loss (like the EV-1) to show how green they are?

‘“We have no documents, no contact with the federal government,” he said.’

That’s because the money goes to the CAR company you WORK for, not the union that makes nothing without an EMPLOYER…