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UAW OFFICIALS BETRAY MEMBERS "2007"
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UAW OFFICIALS BETRAY MEMBERS "2007"
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- posted by Jill Sweet
- June 25, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
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http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=10043
The article appears (I haven't read the whole thing) to be a call for the old days of solidarity forever.
There's one problem: The American public won't stand for it.
Simply put, the UAW and the management of the Big 3 had decades of salad days. There are two reasons for that: One, the Big 3 had, together, monopolistic power over the automobile market, meaning that they could extract extra profits from consumers. Two, the UAW has monopolistic power over the supply of workers.
The consumer was getting the short end of the deal, and labor v. management was simply an intramural struggle for the spoils.
But now that there is a worldwide market for auto production (China will be coming to the U.S. within 20 years, surely), both the UAW and management must adjust.
In any case, it's not clear that the health care model of the auto industry is good for the country as a whole.