so if Unions have put GM out of business NOW, how did GM make it 100 years???

[LSK]

Didnt they always have unions for most of their lifetime????? Are not unions a CONSTANT with the Domestic auto industry??? Why didnt unions kill GM in the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or 90s????????????

[Virginia Dare]

1. Exactly. What has killed the auto industry is..

our failed trade policies, our failed healthcare policies, and our failed tax policies. Just a failure of government all around.

[nolabels]

2. Government put them in business and now is putting them out

Really if you want to get down to cause and effect it's not all that difficult to understand. The US automakers and the people who depend on them should of realized that having all of the domestic automakers in the same geographic location was a weakness that hurt them. When GM shutdown the fledging startup factories they had around the country that was the beginning of the end for them.

[JVS]

3. Captive market

[ogneopasno]

4. And what about all those union construction companies, union mining and shipping companies,

other union manufacturing companies, and union hospitality companies that are, if not thriving in this recession, at least making it OK? Unions clearly aren't killing them.

[lligrd]

5. If Unions Were Responsible For The Economic Decline,

we should be in great shape right now considering unionized jobs have been vanishing for decades. I wonder why we aren't reaping the benefits?