[Alberta's Child]

The core of the problem here is that the UAW is one of those fading, dysfunctional unions that allows their retired members to vote in the union’s leadership elections.

As the number of retirees grows over time and the number of active workers declines due to attrition and automation, the retirees eventually outnumber the active workers. Once this happens, the union’s political agenda ends up being completely at odds with not only the business fortunes of the industry, but with the personal interests of the working members as well.

The UAW leadership would be perfectly fine with a scenario where Ford doesn’t employ a single UAW member but is forced to make generous contributions to the UAW pension system.

[Getready]

Thank you for the added insight. Never knew that. As the elder retirees leave the scene(one way or another)...the unions may have to be more realistic instead of so 1930’s.

I would guess with automation and computer guided robots, cars and car parts may assembled and inspected in smaller regional plants which would be too small to be unionized. Then the requisite parts all shipped to a final assembly and inspection plant. All plants too small for unionization and easily relocated.