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Originally Posted by RedHatch08

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UAW is still not going anywhere.

I don't know who here has worked in a union manufacturing environment, but those that have are probably familiar with the union mentality.

Over and over, this mentality demonstrates that it would rather see a plant shut down entirely, and every employee get fired, than to accept any concessions like pay or benefit cuts.

This happens over and over again in many different industries. I've seen it myself, several years ago in a non-auto union manufacturing plant that I was working at. Union mentality was in full force there, so ... plant got shut down and all the jobs sent to Mexico.

The thing is though, even with how bad things have been, it's not nearly bad enough to shake loose the UAW. The Big 3 are already showing signs of recovery, they closed less dealerships than projected, and there's already optimism to get out of this.

UAW is still going to be around for a WHILE yet...

what a coincidence! we're experiencing a similar situation right now in indy:

http://www.indystar.com/article/2010...rkers-defy-UAW

in this case, the local is defying uaw's request to negotiate with a potential buyer. they will not take a pay-cut and any loss of benefits at the expense of a major plant shutting-down in our city. we will lose millions in property taxes and income taxes from the workers(our state is already hurting from rising unemployment). the workers feel that there shouldn't be a problem relocating to other plants in the region due to a shortage of workers now that gm is starting to turn things around.

i do feel bad for the workers who are being asked to take a 50% pay-cut, but the local won't even put it up for a vote!