It's true the unions are not without faults but if you look at the WHOLE picture the American worker has had a camshaft rammed up his rear with no assembly lube!
Manufacturing employees in the United States are underpaid and overworked compared to European labor. That's a fact. Manufaturing jobs are vanishing and being replaced with poor paying stinky customer service and retail ones.
We should harmonize safety and emissions with the EU and Japan and then tax each imported vehicle according to the difference between US and the source country's pay, worker safety and manufacturing emisssion cost rules. Fuck the consumer, he will pay more. I'm so tired of hearing about the consumer. We are all consumers but we have to be producers first and foremost too.