The children (product) just suffers and continually gets beat in the ballpark (market place).

Or maybe the comparison should be more like a crack dealer (himself on crack) and his customers.

You got it right…..as a “transplant” employee we have always had the benefit of union wages without the union BS that goes with it.
You can count on our overseas honchos to cut wages to a “competitive” level as soon as the unions have all been busted or closed down.

Lumbergh21 I don’t know, maybe I was halucinating at the time, but didn’t GM and the UAW reach an agreement of some sort recently? Isn’t that the sort of thing that is supposed to avoid a strike? They signed an agreement, and now they’ve decided they don’t like it, so they’re going on strike.

What they agreed on last September was the overall contract with the automaker. As contracts with each union Local come up at different locations, they can negotiate location-specific changes to it — usually things that only affect that location like specific worker safety concerns. The recent threats to strike at other locations were caused by disagreements on what constitutes "core" vs. "non-core" jobs under the new 2-tier job structure at each plant. Nothing I've seen so far about the Delta Township disagreement gives the exact reason for this walk-out. Whatever it is, GM will be quick to negotiate agreeable terms, I'm sure

I don’t know, maybe I was halucinating at the time, but didn’t GM and the UAW reach an agreement of some sort recently? Isn’t that the sort of thing that is supposed to avoid a strike? They signed an agreement, and now they’ve decided they don’t like it, so they’re going on strike. Who do they think they are, professional atheletes?

My understanding was the the hourly wages that a UAW worker makes is only marginally higher than the transplant worker. However, the reason UAW workers cost nearly twice as much is the extremely generous benefits they have. Zero out of pocket expense for health care for active workers and their families, as well as retirees. Generous pensions, vacations, tuition assistance, sick pay, lay off pay, disability pay, the list goes on and on.

The wages for the wrench turners for UAW and transplant workers are actually not that far apart (how do you think the transplants have been able to keep the UAW out all this time).

The big difference is in the so-called non-core workers (the broom pushers, if you will). At union shops, they get paid the same as the assembly workers. At non-union plants, they make far less.

This is just another of those cases where the parasite bleeds the host to death and dies shortly afterwards.

Once thoes GM plants close and thoes jobs are gone, and they are never coming back. The UAW better wise up and start training their people in propper burger flipping techniques, cause it doesnt take more than one guy running a backhoe to dig miles of ditch.

Much like with their abused supplier base, GM is merely reaping what they’ve sown.

The UAW sure seems determined to make sure every American Job is eventually outsourced. I am constantly amazed at how self destructive the UAW is.

GM management is bad, and they certainly don’t get a free pass, but you do have to wonder about the thought process of some of these union guys.

It’s painful to watch american firms destroy themselves over problems that have obvious solutions.