In a blog post yesterday, we mentioned United Auto Worker kingpin Bob King’s forecast that his union’s survival is in serious doubt. This admission makes it easier to understand the UAW’s incredulous posturing against U.S.-based foreign auto makers in recent weeks. We already covered the “set of principles” the union delivered to the auto makers, hoping (beyond hope) that they would succumb to what in essence was a neutrality agreement. The union then stepped up the rhetoric by deputizing itself as the “Human Rights” police, threatening to subject employers who don’t respond as they wish to protests and demonstrations, backed by an $800 million war chest (built from dues extracted from hard-working Americans). As usual, the UAW knows that it will require all of the political muscle it can muster, and made the familiar pilgrimage to D.C. to lobby their friends in Congress for a little support.
