UAW Loses Grip On Auto Industry - How Soon Until It Enters The Death Spiral?

For most of the 20th century, the United Auto Workers had a firm grip on representing workers at the nation’s auto plants. That dominance gave it enormous social, economic and political influence, even in places that didn’t have car plants.

But just as Detroit car makers have ceded control of U.S. auto sales to foreign automakers, the UAW is quickly losing its overwhelming power when it comes to the automotive workplace.

UAW members produced only 54 percent of the cars and trucks made in the United States last year. That compares with 85 percent of cars and trucks built in the U.S. in 1999.

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TheSteve - 2/21/2014 7:07:33 PM

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What makes you think they're not already in a death spiral? Have you not noticed their membership numbers in sharp and steady decline over the past decades?

MattDarringer - 2/21/2014 9:07:12 PM

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The UAW does NOT look after workers. It is a whore of the Democrat party. Workers want to work. They do not want to be raped raw to advance the democrats.

MrEE - 2/22/2014 8:42:51 AM

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Death spiral started when putting GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy.

xjug1987a - 2/23/2014 12:06:24 PM

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Now that Michigan is a Right to Work State its time to Re-Certify or De-Certify the union. Zero, none, nadda, of the current membership EVER had a choice in joining, the HAD to if they wanted a job at the Big 3. Its time this cancer was removed and allow these companies and their employees to be free of the restraints and "us vs them" crock, the UAW has created.

chlyn001 - 2/24/2014 11:28:09 PM

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Hey, the auto unions aren't perfect, but anyone who's currently working in the industry can thank unions for the higher wages they are earning as well as a host of other benefits, whether they belong to a union or not. Do you really think management always wants to share in the profits all are somewhat responsible for creating? The UAW isn't dead, and when it's in a fair fight (not one where every crank politician in a state like Tennessee conspires to keep them out by insinuating worker destruction if the union wins), if the union can present its case, they will win a few and maybe lose a few too. It's a matter of workers having a fair look at the facts without threats. Then if they win or lose, so be it. But let's not let the big shots call all the shots while the workers lose their rights to choose whom, or if, they want representation.