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Originally Posted by stovt001
There's a difference between a favorable labor contract and sustainable labor conditions. This contract is temporary, and it is limited. It doesn't address the fact that Detroit plays under an entirely different set of rules than all the foreign brands operating in the US. The union will always ask for benefits above what the market will give. If they don't, then what is the point of the union? Until Detroit is free of the unions, they simply can't be long term competitive and sustainable, in my opinion. I agree with Romney here, and I would have liked to have seen him win the nomination.
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Of course, that's what unions are for. But GM negotiates with them. That is THEIR place, and they've done it this time around. Unions can only have a stranglehold over a company, and be a 'cancer' if they let them. The contract is temporary in the sense that it will be renegotiated as it always has been. But it's not going to suddenly jump back up, again -- that's insanity, so I don't understand what you mean about temporary. And what's limited about it??
This "freedom of unions" I keep hearing is way overexaggerated. Whether you're in a union or you're on your own, so long as the pay is the same, what does it matter??