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At one time in this country, the unions were necessary to protect workers from big industry and provide saftey regs etc..etc..

Now they are eating themselves alive. The UAW is a prime example of this. Sorry to say, but a person on an assembly line installing seats (just an example) should not and can not expect to make more than $15-18 an hour or 30-36K a year. You can't bitch about the price of new cars and then also demand inflated wages, fully paid benefits and grand retirement packages. Those days are long gone.

Let GM buyout the current workforce clean house and reload with lower priced labor. At the same time they would be wise to retool their entire compensation structure, pay scales, benefits packages, etc..

I'm not saying sweat shop type pay scales, but the reality is that you can't pay someone 40 50 60k a year to work an assembly line job. The economics don't work in the long term.

At least the work would stay on our soil and direclty feed our economy both on the local level and on the national level.

Kids today need to be damn sure they have a willingness to work, a real degree and/or a real skill set up which they can build a career for the long term.

my 38 cents on the topic....your opinions may and probably will vary.