UNIONS=Extortionists with a license.

I would almost bet that the unions are self insured when it comes to medical insurance and that the non-unionized plants buy a plan from an insurance company (Like they all should)

$'s for the union employees coverage plan as part of their package go into a huge pool. That pool of money has to be managed and the claims paid out which is a huge number of people that are needed to manage this.

That huge number of people are YOU GUESSED IT, union employees who make a lot of money. So in essence all that they are doing is creating more union brotherhood jobs at everyones expense to keep their own coffers full for future generations of extortionists to run.

The unions way of doing things are so antiquated its unreal. I used to write those checks to the union on a monthly basis so I know what I am talking about. I could give many many examples of how they take and take and never give anything back.

If this keeps up, the only one that will be able to afford a big 3 car, are the ones that work in the plant that builds them. And that my friends will spell disaster for them.

anybody ever seen the movie tucker. this guy had all kinds of great ideas and they put his ass out of business. could it be that the big 3 is going bankrupt because the havent built a decant car in 25 years? a friend of mine had a grand am with a quad4 engine. the timing chain broke and the pistons came up and bent the valves. after taking it apart i realized that ac, ps, alt, smog pump were all ran of the cam wich was ran off the timing chain. it's hard for me to believe that an educated engineer could possibly be that stupid. if he would have continued to repair the engine he would be buying 16 valves, new head bolts, new chain, gaskets, and possibly a new head casting and a few pistons. it would seem that you would  design somthing in this way so that in 100,000 or so miles you'll be back to spend a thousand or so in parts and a few more thousand for service. my buddy ended up junking a 2003 grand am   with a cherry  body and interior. my lbor was gping to be free.

last couple times i  was in the detroit area, i hauled some die molds to honda in ohio and some transmission parts from borge warner to a toyota plant in  ky. i've also hauled several coils to these places. the only thing i've ever hauled for the big 3 is a load of machinery to el paso tx. and guess were that load was headed.

as for the uaw. when i was in truckdriving school 80% og the students were ex uaw members that lost thier job to mexico. they would tell me stories of workers clocking in and leavinf to go lay carpet and coming back to clock out. some guys would come in and play card. some guys would sleep in thier caif the big 3 is going out of business, it's thier own damn fualt. from the ceo's to the engineers to the not a very nice person union guys that won't unload your truck after 2 pm.

i agree with jonny. piss on em.

Maybe the politicians need to give 25 billion to Hyundai and Kia to buy up the leftover pieces of the big three. I am sure they have no problem hiring people here at decent wages and benefits and still turning healthy profits back into the US economy. At least they build cars that require half the fuel of what the big three build. The government would be saving the planet at the same time...Al Gore would be proud!

The beggars are on a road trip with their hybrids and are looking for a hand out so they can buy some Tesla’s for the ride home.

I don’t know why the Federal Reserve doesn’t just buy them out? The government is going to need that floor space to print all the money it’s given out! What an assembly line, it will also help them get up to speed on the quantity of cash they will be printing in the near future.