Are unions helping or hurting the American automotive industry?
Unions certainly have their place, just like they did in the environment which spawned them. However, we have grown very complacent in our ideas of what we are due and what we should have to put up with in the work place. We are a “me” culture and often cannot see the greater good. Such as the recent troubles with GM and the UAW. While I certainly think that GM has the responsibility to fulfill its contract obligations, but those obligations, combined with drooping sales and increased outsourcing and production expenses have made the very company these people work for unstable and unprofitable. Something has to give, and if unions keep a stoic position, without flexing, then it won’t just be the company that is hurt. It will be the workers, and all of America. Concessions sometimes have to be accepted by everyone, not just by “The Man”.
