Unions are extortion-artists, and pretty stupid too
I think anyone with half-a-brain realizes that Union workers are overpaid, under-worked slugs. The US auto industry has no chance of survival as long as they are forced to pay the workers 500x what they are worth. You could take a high school graduate, give him 3 days of training and $10 an hour and he could do the job of a Union-worker making over $100k a year. Face it, Union jobs could be replaced by anyone with a pulse. Actually, most of them could be replaced by robots, so I guess a pulse isn’t even a requirement.
After 5 decades of using Extortion to jack up their wages, prevent Automakers from investing in automation and technology, and protecting even the laziest and most worthless workers, their demise is near. Yet for some reason they are either too stupid or too ignorant to recognize it. Now we learn that the UAW has walked away from concession talks with GM.
These goons are hell-bent on making sure they are completely eliminated from existence. Rather than accept a salary that is merely triple what the workers are worth, they are refusing to negotiate. The ONLY thing that the Auto makers should consider at this point is Bankruptcy and the downright destruction of the Union.
Besides, The Union should be an illegal Cartel. If every employer got together and fixed wages they would be sued, fined, and probably imprisoned for Collusion. But when the Unions do the exact same thing on the Supply Side of the labor equation, it is not only acceptable but supported by Liberals.
If you are a Union worker wondering why you are about to lose your job, don’t blame Management. Blame your Union officials that collect insane paychecks to extort your employer.
DETROIT (AP) — Negotiators for the United Auto Workers walked out of concession talks with General Motors Corp. Friday night in a dispute over payments to a union-administered retiree health care fund, a person briefed on the talks said Saturday.
The breakdown comes at a critical time as GM races against a Tuesday deadline to submit a plan to the government showing how it can become viable.