Joe has a point. If you completely destroyed the unions in GM it probably wouldn’t be good either. GM would fuck over every employee and probably still manage to run the company into bankruptcy.
I think the only chance is for the government to step in, dissolve the current contracts, and put something in place that both sides can live with. Not billions in concessions and payouts, simply wipe the slate clean and start over. That will never happen though, so I have my doubts GM and Ford will survive. Since Chrysler is now run by zee Germans I don’t really even think of them as part of “the big three” anymore. It’s the big two, and that other US company that speaks with the German accent.