Reply #24: Unions suck!

[Michael_Bush]

For the exact same reason you stated.

Rather than fight for more productivity they protect the slackers and push production costs up not by getting individual workers more pay but by bringing in more workers to do less work.

Don't use their pension funds to influence corporate management.

They fight to keep jobs here through protectionism rather than by harnessing smarter better workers to be more efficient and thus cheaper.

GM is going to flush its pension down the drain. The unions should have fought the excessive pay for CEOs, the excessive payouts to stockholders but that chance is gone. The only bill due is the pensions and their members are going to foot the bill.

I believe in the concept of unions, and I thank them for the good work they did long ago. Until they change their ways they are a burdern not a help to their members.