I understand that. Excess union workers with excess total compensation (salary and benefits) cost the automakers a lot more money, but they are being spared much of the pain because they have more political clout through the UAW.
Totally wrong...the domestics have been around for years and have legacy costs (retirement and health care), this caused some of the problems...the other culprit would be those who turned their back on their country and purchased foreign cars...it may have seemed like a good idea, but we are going to pay for it now and in the future. An America without manufacturing is a weakened America and in serious danger from our enemies (not to mention on the path of socialism because of the loss of good jobs with benefits)...for example China is building weapons with our trade dollars...stupid is as stupid does.
The union was just a bogeyman for globalists who had to find a reason why jobs were being lost other then their short sighted policies...many non-union jobs have gone overseas as have companies that have no unions. I don’t care what you say as long as slave labor and super cheap labor from third world countries continues, union or no union, American workers can not compete...for example the tech sector is losing many jobs to India...no union involved there.