# UAW strike at GM! **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 24, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/uaw-strike-at-gm/192612 "2007-09-24T13:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![brokeasskorean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@brokeasskorean](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brokeasskorean)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/uaw-strike-at-gm/192612/16 "2007-09-25T08:38:42Z")
> [@NYSPEED Detectives Needed](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-detectives-needed/32652/2): > > yet the solution would be for you to find a job that pays the bills… like the rest of us… > > unions do not reduce off-shore outsourcing… in the end they inflate prices of the American companies that use them… negative. unions basically keep the company in check with the amount of profit they make to fair wages for the employees. look at walmart, a multi billion dollar business. they are non-union which allows them to pay their employees basically nothing and make huge profits every year. if they did go union walmart would blame that for having to up their prices, but the real reason would be because their profit margin at the end of the year is less because they have to pay their employees fair wages. thats why there is “inflation” --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/uaw-strike-at-gm/192612)._