UAW Strike?

I think unions are not relevent today. If they would strike to put pressure on the engineers and owners to design a better product, that would be relevant.

Unions were necessary 100 years ago, 50 years ago. Now, the consumer absorbs the cost for an inferior product. I want to buy an American car and support American workers, but I'm not going to. American engines last 5 years; a Honda lasts 10. American cars breakdown way more often, compared to Honda. I don't like giving up my time to have my car in the shop. I'm just going to pay more up front for a Honda, know that I can drive it for over 200,000 miles with no breakdowns, and very little maintenance. The unions, the managers, and the owners have all put the nails in the coffin of the US auto industry. Wake up, American car makers...

I am a GM employee, so the effect on me is obvious....As for Ford and Chrysler.....usually the UAW names a "strike target" during the initial phases of negotiations. They do this because this is the company they feel they have a better chance of reaching a deal with as quickly as possible. The contract that they get with the "target" is the one that the others contracts are modeled after. They will keep negotiating, but if they make no progress as well, it is possible they could strike as well. IMO, this will not last very long. Both have too much at stake to allow it to.

To "never vote democrat"......living in the "shadows" of those plants is a lot different than actually working for those companies. I suspect if it were your job and benefits the unions were fighting for , your opinion would be MUCH different.

Darrin o......well...not worth me wasting my time on.

Affect on me? Only indirectly. GM and the union will work something out before we run out of vehicles to buy. If they didn't, then the price of vehicles in general would go up (less supply, same demand).

The affect on the economy in general, however, is a matter of debate. One 'side' will point out that the union is one reason GM cannot be as nimble as its foreign competitors. The other 'side' will point out that if not for the union, more manufacturing jobs would pay less or go overseas.

In a perfect world, the management and employees would act like they're on the same team for the good of each other.

This strike (as has been shown) was all about the UAW getting control of billions of dollars to fund health care..

This will be big for the union, bad for workers especially retirees..the UAW is big business, just like GM...

I think they are doing GM a favor. They go on strike, nobody is buying GM vehicles. I grew up in the shadow of a GM plant (Tarrytown, NY) and my husband grew up in the shadow of a Ford plant (Mahwah, NJ) and I know of NOT ONE person driving a GM, Ford or Chrysler product. I know plenty of Honda, Toyota and even Hyundai drivers (2007 Sonata made in USA).

How many GM vehicles are made by non UAW workers in Mexico and Korea? Plenty!

Unions have to realize they lost. Globalization, like it or not, it is reality.

We had this comparable subject interior the united kingdom some years in the past. there became a guy we talked approximately as purple Robbo who became continually calling workers on the Austin plant in England out on strike. yet then alongside got here a woman talked approximately as Mrs Thatcher who solved his and the Austin plant issues. provide her a telephone call and she or he may be waiting to do an identical with your UAW strikers.

DarrinO,you should check your info.There is at least 2 Toyota plants in the US that are UAW and in Japan they do have unions.Why do you think that most Toyota plants in US don't have unions,because they pay union scale to keep them out.

People are lucky to have jobs, union people are spoiled lazy non working people who are always looking for a reason to complain about something. Keep striking while your foreign competitors keep passing you. Toyota leads the world in sales because they are non- unionized.

I bet there will be a lock out soon enough. it does not effect me