[bomelia]

Look, the Japanese companies are union free enterprises. Why they would ever consider getting into bed with the devil is beyond me. Modern day unions suck. I have worked in environments where union labor was present. I have had grievances filed against me for moving a coat hangar from my old office to a new office. I had a one filed against me because as I opened a door to a hallway I bumped into a union dufus that had set a ladder up in front of the door. I called him an idiot and that is what spurred on the grievance. Where I live now, a labor union strike caused an entire tire manufacturing plant to be closed. Jobs lost. Tax revenues gone.

Idiots. GMAC has a management culture that does not know how to exist without unions. And so do the other American car producers. Ford is on borrowed time. The unions will kill them as well.

Global competition will spell the final death blow to unions. In the mean time, our govenment has engaged itself in a union life-support process. That too will eventually fail.

Mike