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Originally Posted by trm0002
That's exactly why I said GM will be in Chapter 11. They have to be able to void the UAW contracts. Look, this isn't simply "pick on the UAW" but without voiding the UAW contracts and leveling the playing field, nothing else they do will be enough without it.
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We could level the field without voiding UAW contracts. We could do alot things that could avoid that. I agree though it isn't possible the way things are right now. I don't consider screwing over the workers and there families an option that we should consider. We shouldn't get into these kind of practices, we are suppose to take care of our own. It seems there are many misperceptions about the wages and benefits of our fellow workers. The union definately needs to change their ways, but I think that everyone is needing to rethink and take a new approach. But in the same token the union has its place in this nation of ours just as free market and capitalism. No one of these can or will succeed without each other. I think GM will survive this, but I hope it is not at the expense of the workers wages and benefits. It is not bad practice to promise these things as a company, but it would be bad as a company to renig on them. I wish I had a pension, and not a 401k based on the stock market. It is like throwing your hard earned money into the casinos in Vegas! I hope that this can all work out on common ground, in fact I think it is the only way it can. We could start by not catering to the foreign automobile companies and giving them tax breaks that we don't give to american automobile companies building cars on our own soil. That would be one thing that could be done, among many others. I think as bad as things are, we will find our way out of this. I am not so quick to give up on the good ole USA. We are unique as a nation and I am proud to be american. I still have the faith man! Things will work out.
