alright your preious points were retarded and ignorant.
1. honda is non-union, the picture u mpaint of tons of illegals working there, well is false, we have very few mexicans at all, let alone illegal ones, working there over 4 years i cannot ever remember meeting a first generation mexican american at honda.
2. GM line workers at top pay see more like 38 $/hr. and make over 100k, The 60k a year guy you decribe sounds more like a honda worker. hell even our temps start over $11 an hour.
now to the current post, you are still ignorant. We were not cut back to 3 days a week idiot. We are only producing cars 3 days a week, the other 2 days are optional, we can come in and work painting, maintaining the plant & working on improvement projects on those days. Or we can take the day off if we choose and do what we want with it.
No one is arguing that the auto industry as a whole is not selling, but honda has been telling about this coming for 2 years now and planned for it.
Also you have not done your research, Honda has a nice benifits package and retirement sure may not be as much as a UAW worker (really, who's is?), but at least we know the money is going to be there when i'm ready to retire in 20+ years.
Your living a pipe dream if you think that the UAW can sustain retirement benifits like they do for the next 30 years. Not the way that those funds have been monkeyed with the last few decades.
The union was initially intended to work WITH the employer to reach fair compensation and fair work conditions for the people they represent. Your example of a union not budging on anything when it's company is not doing well only backs up my point. Essentially that Union negotuiated themselves out jobs for it's people.
Most unions have become the beurocracy that they were supposed to protect people from.