It’s obvious that the UAW is a cancer that kills any company it gets involved with. Even the brain-dead auto executives at the “American” companies know this. Ford has been moving production away from the Midwest to Mexico for years. Chrysler is dead, and the Italians are going to shift what little production is left overseas. GM is shifting production to China. It’s all to flee the UAW. None of the foreign transplants here want the UAW in their plants.
But the unemployed UAW workers will still go to the union hall for beers, convinced that the overgrown decaying empty plant next door will someday spring back to life. It’s like a cargo cult.
“..another dirty management rick to scare us.”
“Studebaker will be here when you’re dead and gone!”
-UAW workers when told the Studebaker plant in South Bend was closing in 1964. Two years later the last of the company’s cars rolled off the Canadian assembly line after 114 years of manufacturing wheeled vehicles.