Reply #3: What has happened to UAW is horrible.

[JDPriestly]

But, the UAW should have been screaming much more loudly over the past 20 years. GM, Chrysler and, to a lesser extent, Ford have not kept up with societal changes. They are selling SUVs because they get higher profit margins -- at a time when families are smaller, environmental damage at crisis levels and the availability and affordability of petroleum declining.

UAW should have begun pressuring GM, Chrysler and Ford about its plans for the future about 20-30 years ago.

A lot of UAW members voted for Reagan. Don't think they didn't. If union members had not supported the conservatives over the past nearly 30 years, we would have had Democratic presidents the whole time.

Union members used to be a large percentage of the country. They could have stopped the conservative takeover. But they did not, and the rest is history.