Yes thats true. They kept giving into the demands of the Unions and we now see what happens when you do.
I grew up in a Union family. My father made a measly $20/hour when he retired from Ford after 33 years of never missing a day of work. My mother taught for Detroit Public Schools for 28 years. UAW workers doing what my pop did make less than $14 and NO Benefits at all.
The only time Unions come up is when the Skilled Trades and their $60/hour jobs are deliberately put in the same league as the "Line Workers".
I only see the results of noodlesty Engineering and noodlesty mismanagement while raping Corporate Funds. To put the sole blame of the demise of Chrysler and GM on the hands of the UAW is chickennoodles at best. There are many threads where I have pointed out these things and they don't even come close to "blame of the UAW."
My father would throw valve body parts at his foreman's sons head when he fell asleep and stopped production. My father will still tell someone he wishes "he could be reimbursed for Union Dues because he never needed the Union to help him, because he showed up for work every day and did his job."
When people trash the UAW for the screw ups, my father laughs because at the end of the day he hates them just as much as we do. But then there are those who are ignorant and just hate, to hate.
I could bring up the Junk Bond status of GM, Ford and Chrysler and it has NOTHING to do with the UAW. But it does involve gross negligence on the "Smart White Collar" greed mongers, that wish to blame the UAW, while they skim the coffers to this day.
