If the job banks don’t exist, as you claim, then why did the unions just propose that the UAW would allow the job banks to be scaled back?
Beats me. The jobs bank was a stupid idea in the first place. Relocating, or driving to another plant, for a short time should have been a requirement with the sort of pay the autoworkers are/were getting. No reason for them to be sitting on their butts.
The UAW was very cunning when they negotiated the jobs bank idea.
They took Roger Smith’s grand projections for the future and told him “of course your sales will continue to improve, so you’ll never need to pay us anything on this promise, and we can sell it to the rank and file in place of some other benefit”