GM Closing Factories

[HummerNewbie]

I certainly wouldn't put all the blame for GM's problems on the unions but think they need to go or become realistic. One of our companies was union years ago and another was not. Same industry and same equipment but the union require almost twice the number of employees to do the same job. We ended up telling the employees that we wanted to keep that if they left the union they would have a job but if not we would close the company and take all the business to the other company and we would come out ahead. The good employees left the union and kept their jobs. Almost all of them ended up make more per hour because overhead went down let alone they didn't have any union dues anymore so it was a win win situation. Unions had their place 75 years ago but not so much now IMO but I am not looking from the side of a union employee.