Should the unionized workers from Ford,GM, and Chrysler go on strike now?

yes,great idea ! chapter 11 is THE ONLY ANSWER. this a bail out ONLY OF THE UNIONS, NOT THE AUTO INDUSTRY ! gm is paying for 700,000 retirees that do not contribute one cent.time to clean house.

I'd say this is a bad time to go on strike. They may be on soup lines if the bailout doesn't come soon, they wouldn't be hurting anyone but themselves. Union people remain union people, if only in spirit, they still will always think as union people. After all, they did their job. They built the cars as they were supposed to, to engineering specifications. They look and perform as they should, so any problems that have been caused by performance and looks belong to the engineers and artists who created them and those who made bad decisions as to what should be put out for sale. The color, the engine size and the overall look of the car was not decided by the workers. Those decisions were made by those higher up on the string. The engineers, designers and the execs all are better compensated than the men on line doing the work, so maybe they should be the ones striking. They are the one who decided what would sell. The unionized workers as you call them, didn't call the dance, they just performed as expected.

1) Wildcat strike? illegal. No. They already signed contracts and expressed willingness for concessions.

2) Poison pill is management tool . Unions don't get to play one.

3) No. Bankruptcy only stalls The corporations' creditors. And if the corporations survive like Chrysler did back in the 80s, the unions keep on.

4) Why are you blaming the workers for the problems created by management? The upper management negotiates their contracts with the board. They get millions of dollars each every year and you just don't care. But the thousands of union workers who together make what GM's president pulls in in salary and bonuses, and account for 10% of the cost of a new car, them you scream and yell at and say how greedy they are.

And someone on the management team had to agree to their wages. Is this another stupid management decision? If so, why blame the workers for yet another management decision.

no.....they have made concessions and the concensus is some aid will be offered to the companies...republicans are trying to bleed the workers for as much as they can and hurt the union as much as possible....thats whats going on right now.

UAW workers are screwed no matter what course is taken. The best they can do is try to manage the amount of pain they will suffer by making concessions, in my opinion.