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To: tejek who wrote (44933)	11/17/2008 8:28:42 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

because the back of all that american workers bled for decades ago isn't broken... it lives on... hangs on... by a thread... in the auto workers. ergo it is precious. they are not all powerful... they are the remnant that we cling to and hope to build from into a new day.

To: tejek who wrote (44933)	11/17/2008 11:33:33 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

totally AGREE. This is ALL on GMs stupid and in some ways corrupt management. The unions are just doing their job, negotiating for their workers. The fact remains though that there are about 2x more workers than there should be, and 3x more car models. How do you correct this, now? Not buy feeding more money to the carcass. And if half the workers are going to get cut, which they need to be in order for GM to be viable, whats the difference if they go chapter 11? I'm not blaming the workers but manufacturing workers in the US just don't get deals like Detroit anymore- ANYWHERE. If people are concerned with the workers they can fire all the management and disperse the management bonus's to the workers in a form of severance. that would be fine by me. he creation of the job banks I pass off to mgmt which developed this bizarre model when they negotiated contracts with the unions way back in 1984. Furthermore, I find it somewhat perplexing that the unions for the auto industry are so all powerful that they can dictate to GM's mgmt their terms when the back of unions were broken in this country long ago. Something just doesn't ring true in this whole discussion.