I agree with JayS. I don’t have a guaranteed job, where if I fuck up, they can’t fire me. I don’t get paid 3+ times as much as I should for the job I do. I am required to be good at my job in order to keep it. My employer isn’t going to pay me a rediculous pension for the rest of my life, including full health coverage.
Now, do I want these things? Yes. Can my employer stay in business while giving me these things? Hell no. And neither can GM, no matter how hard they try. And to say that the UAW is necessary is just plain retarded. Foreign manufactures manage to make a good product, while keeping their non-union employees happy. There is enough available labor to do the jobs that I just can’t understand how the unions are still even there.