[Havoc]

No, the UAW is a variable. What's destroying GM is the union, plus outsourcing plus the free trade crap that set the trade imbalznce in motion that is and has been undermining the US market little bits at a time. If there were an even playing field for US auto makers in America, GM would still be selling volume in Cars. As it is now, they can't compete because on an uneven playing field, the union now handicaps them completely. Free trade is nothing more than an unmasked all out offensive against the working class.

[wideawake]

Free trade is nothing more than an unmasked all out offensive against the working class.

Do you subscribe to The Nation or something?

There is no "working class" in America any more than there is a "landed gentry" in this country. Marxist class analysis is about as applicable to our current situation as phrenology.

Americans who work for a living are not a "class" - they are 94% of the population.

[jpsb]

Free trade is downsizing GM customers (free trade, out sourcing) so it is not at all surprising that GM is losing market share. Poor people do not buy new cars and if they do it's a new inexpensive imported car. GM has been done in by the effects of so called free trade.

I wonder why the GOP thinks a nation of poor destitute people will vote GOP? GOP policies of killing jobs and wealth production in the USA is going to be mean the permeate end of the GOP