I'm not sure how you see that it gives the UAW any leverage at all. Frankly if you go on strike you will also be renegotiating a contract once GM goes tits up.
Yah they shoved it up our keisters with a last minute "Oh by the way you guys are laid off the week before the holidays start", down in Windsor. No SWW for us.
Is that so hard for you to believe? I mean people in Windsor are down right excited at the prospect of losing thousands of auto jobs in return for thousands more CallCentre jobs just to "diversify" our economy. Goodbye $30/hr, hello $12/hr.
Indeed. You can thank the Dodge Brothers for suing Ford Motor Company basically making it illegal to be a socially responsible company and to put shareholders first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company
The reality is that there are no jobs that you can hop to. Especially here in Windsor where there is some kind of closure every week, if not every other day.