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Auto Industry Watch: You Can't Get Different Results Doing the Same Thing

If a chapter 11 is what it takes to get rid of the unions then so be it. The unions killed Detroit pure and simple. The extorted pension and medical benefit plans kill any chance of our automakers surviving in the long run.

Closing a company down with a strike or threatening to do such is extortion, not negotiation. Unions finished the noble part of their history when they caused the federal government to enact minimum wage and OSHA worker safety laws. Everything since then is pure unadulterated extortion.

Al Qaida has not come close to causing the damage inflicted by our unions. Our industry has fled to foreign shores to escape our unions.

The final abomination is the unions attempt to get rid of the secret ballot through the "Employee Free Choice Act". If they can bully 51% into signing the union card in public .... then the union does not have to endure the humiliation of losing in a secret ballot. Unions have been getting as much as 80% of union cards signed only to lose by a landslide in the secret ballots. Now these slimeballs want to get rid of the secret ballot all together because they can't win in a fair fight. Would the unions propose public ballots in public elections? I didn't think so.

Unions are un-American. Period. I prefer Al Qaida to the UAW because at least its obvious to everyone that they are the enemy. The unions are the enemy within. Mostly enabled and controlled by organized crime. The unions somehow blocked "Right to work laws", allowing unions to create closed shops requiring every new employee to become a paying union member. This creates the conditions wherein the inmates run the assylum. The fate of our steelmills and automakers and other industries are only explainable in terms of union extortion which made our industry un-competitive.