The Detroit Free Press is also not seeing any silver lining in the UAW strike against GM:
Well, this is just what Michigan needed. And the U.S. auto industry. And the ever-shrinking United Auto Workers union.
For the first time in 31 years, the UAW called a national strike Monday, unable to settle a new contract with General Motors Corp. The UAW has 73,000 members working at 82 GM facilities across the country, and the longer they stay out, the further the ripples will spread, to suppliers, retailers and businesses that count UAW members among their customers. The strike may have caught many unprepared, given the widespread belief that because the industry is in such rough shape, this was not going to be the year for a walkout.
"This is horrible, but we're die-hard union, so we have to," one worker at a Wisconsin GM plant told the Associated Press. "We got a mortgage, two car payments and tons of freaking bills."
I'm thinking that this is not going to turn out well for anyone involved. Least of all the workers.
Two dinosaurs fighting each other to the death…while both are sinking into a tar pit.
Well said, Purple Avenger.