Why Are GM, Ford & Chrysler unwilling to negotiate with their UAW unions for...

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...relief during this hard time? I would think that the UAW would be more than willing to to give a little to help their company survive. But that does not appear to be the case. Do they feel that they are economically invincible?
 
Who says they aren't? The UAW has given tons of give backs and concessions over the past fifteen years. I am sure they are willing to discuss anything that is put on the table. They already have a two tier wage structure that was very difficult to accept. Lots of lost wage increases and benefits to try and help the companies. A lot of people who have never worked in a factory and never sat in on union negotiations seem to have a lot of opinions on this issue. Join a union, attend meetings, run for office and learn something, then come back and make an educated comment.
 
Unions don't negotiate....they must be broken...just like a little China doll.
 
The major auto companies are asking for more handouts when they already got taxpayer money ($25 billion) while recently oursourcing (opening factories) to places like Russia and China! The least they can do is help the very people who are hurting in this economy the most--the tax-paying American worker!!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fi-auto25-2008sep25,0,2103095.story


Can a truly "struggling" company afford to do this?

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/11/07/224691.html

And spend over $20 million on commericals for a car that doesn't even exist? This is the same company that preferred to sacrifice profits and destroy their own popular electric cars!

http://gm-volt.com/2008/08/11/video-gm-airs-chevy-volt-ad-during-the-olympics/
 
because they know the dems will take care of them.that is why.guilty of corporate welfare the dems are!
 
You hit the nail on the head. With Obama coming as our new president, Pelosi and a democrat ran house, and now maybe the senate not allowing republicans to filibuster, yes, the uaw feels pretty invincible right now. They'll keep funding those votes.
 
I don't see the CEO's of the big 3 offering to reduce their salaries by MILLIONS of dollars either....
 
I don't think that the automakers are unwilling to prod the UAW for help...I think they realistically believe that there is no chance this would happen. The automakers have been on thin ice for years, losing market share and profitablity. The UAW continued to press for more and more...kind of like slaying the goose that laid the golden egg. I have heard some finance experts suggest that, as a condition for government aid, that the union contracts be negated and that the union cough up give backs. I think this is a wonderful idea. The idea that government (taxpayer) money would be used to fund union members who drove the industry into insolvency, while accumulating wages and benefits that most Americans don't enjoy, is absurd. Union members should share the pain, or go unemployed.
 
The UAW knows the democrats will bail them out at all costs...if not, they'll quit brainwashing their pathetic members.
 
Because when they negotiate they have to open their books to the union, and they don't want anyone to know the truth while they beg the government for money.
It's not the unions that are the problem. Stop hating the American worker.
 
They have negotiated with the UAW and the union workers have taken many concessions and pay cuts in the past decade. But how do they compete with foreign auto builders who pay their workers $3-4 an hour without the government doing something about the unfair trade agreements? The unions did not cause this!! They've been willingly giving up a LOT in recent years to help the company out.

Bub (above) is right on point.

Three million jobs are directly or indirectly dependent on the Big Three. It will actually cost the government more to have all those people on the unemployment line than to do the bailout/loan program proposed.
 
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