Tough GM critics do an about face!

Typical politician BS!

I've actually met Bob Corker a few times (funny, he complimented my 07 Tahoe not too long ago). He's actually a very nice man and one of the politicians I respect most.

The argument here isn't a new one: he wants GM to shape up and also wants people in his state to have jobs.

1UAW you have consistently complained about the maltreatment of GM through headlines that did not correlate with the content of the article. Yet, here you offer the very thing that you have incessantly complained about. Corker is the lone critic mentioned. In addition, he has not 'done an about face' but is simply arguing for the retention of one plant in his state. His main argument in the past was that GM needed to go BK because of the onerous burden of the parasitic union (UAW) that has bled them dry. So please, bring some honesty to the debate if that is even possible for you.

I don't know where you got that no pension stat from, but I thought it was common knowledge that the benefits these employee's make bump up the average salary to $73 an hour.

Yeah, but "capitalist" Corker wants to give half a billion to VW (partly state-owned socialist company with unions that make the UAW look like the garden club), while screaming about "bail outs" for Detroit.

It is not ideologically consistant, to say it nicely, or totally hypocritical, to put it bluntly.

You can thank all of congress for mindlessly bashing GM. Everytime some politician opens their mouths they steal tons of sales from GM.

Of course, being that the VAST majority of politicians in Washington have no real-world experience whatsoever, they don't understand the consequences of their stupidity. Case & point, the idiots politicians who were wasting time over private jets and "you guys opposed regulations, waaa waa waa".

Just made a big problem a huge problem. I want CH11 reorganization of our government. No more career politicians.

Gentleman, I suppose it makes you feel better by suggesting that everyone, who objects to your view of reality, just does not understand the facts as they are. I live in a strong UAW area. I have friends from church that are GM UAW members. I have a cousin, who is big into the hierarchy of the local GM UAW. So, I have access to actual 'team' members. Just because you pay current people the low tier wage does not mean that GM is on an equivalent pay basis with other manufacturers. You have bled Generous Motors for too long. Yes, they have had weak management because they could not force you away from the destructive labor policies that you have fostered and forced by duress. Do I rejoice over my friends and family who have retired and are close to retirement looking at the prospect of being financially hurt? No, I do not, however, I will remind you that the congress, especially democrats, have many times in the past provided insurance and pension benefits for orphan accounts. I have an uncle (UMW) who has benefited greatly from the largess of the taxpayer through these orphan funds. I hope once this company shrinks that you take an honest look at the economics of unionism and the political ideas that unions foster. When the historians look at this industry and the current problems in the future, they will lay the greatest blame upon the UAW and its membership. Your political and economic ideas have hurt the US substantially. Quite honestly I find it difficult to forgive you and the UAW for your malfeasance!

"...almost all Japanese automakers are in it their bonuses are as high as a half years salry [sic]"

yes, but THOSE bonuses are based on actual PROFITS in any given year.

the UAW has EXTORTED pay and benefits that were possible in detroit's FAT years, and expect those to be continued FOREVER regardless of lean times.

a similar situation faces ALL pension payers in america with "defined" (fixed) benefits, which WILL NOT BE SUSTAINABLE in the long term. there are few constants in this ever changing world of ours. refusal to acknowledge change is the downfall of many failed systems.

Extorted?? I don't recall the UAW holding a gun to anybodies head. STFU.

obviously, you are totally ignorant about how many MILLIONS a strike can cost a car company with (normal) cash flows as great as the Shrinking Three had.

I recall bad management giving them the world.

the beancounters didn't like it, but waiting out long strikes often would cost even more.

in the end, mgmt just "PASSED THE COSTS ON to captive car buyers."

who only got liberated when given the choice of imported cars.