UAW auto workers.....

I used to joke about how ridiculous it is for some dude to get paid $20+ an hour to bolt wheels on a car with a counter balanced machine. I was being factitious. Little did I know, I was in fact correct. I was watching a show on Natl. Geographic TV on super factories. This one was of the Corvette plant in Bowling Green KY. Check this crap out! The tire comes down an automated conveyor and is deposited on this cart. The worker rolls the cart to the car and using air power adjusts the height, then slides the tire onto the hub. Following this step he uses a, get this, COUNTER BALANCED machine to bolt the fucking thing on! This fella is doing a job any dumbass fresh out of high school could do. And he's making stupid money at it. Is it really any wonder all our manufacturing jobs have left America?????? Why the hell does a job like this pay this much???!!! It's fucking stupid! Just another reason why the big three are in such trouble. If they'd stood up the the union and told the to go fuck themselves. They wouldn't be in this situation. But in times past when things were going well and business was booming, they cowed down to the unions and gave them pretty much whatever they wanted. You may be thinking: "What the hell do you know, dumbass!" My response: Go fuck yourself. I've had the mis-fortune to visit GM plants for the company I work for. I always dread it. What a bunch of grumpy, unhappy, mean bastards. I make WAY less money, have a fraction of the benefits they do, but have four times better an attitude. I show up with a smile and pleasant attitude, these fuckers look like some one just farted in their Cherrios. Unions did and still do have their place even today. but the UAW is killing our country. I need to clarify one thing. I'm dissing line workers here. Not skilled trades. I couldn't fix a robotic assembly machine, but I sure as hell could bolt a wheel on a car.
I could go on and on here about all the crap the union got away with. How about the job bank? What a load of shit that is. No work? GM will pay you to stay home! That's not the reality for the other 99% of us. You don't work, you don't get paid. Michigan is a great example of what's wrong with the UAW. How come no new auto plants are built in MI? Because the union here is impossible to deal with. They're seen as mean, unfriendly thugs. I don't care how large a tax incentive you dangle in front of auto makers. They ain't building shit here because of the unions. Simple as that. They're just unpleasant to deal with. The unions must not understand that the company doesn't exist for the purpose of supplying jobs to people. It exists to provide a service or product in exchange for money with the end goal of generating a profit for the owners or shareholders. Of course in all of this, the executives share some blame as well for the financial woes the auto industry is exeriencing. I belive all this cash they get paid(ridiculous sums to begin with....) should be tied to company performance.
I'm not jelous that I don't have a cushy job like that( don't deny it. making that kind of money for such menial labor is cushy. Don't like it? Go pound sand up your ass). Don't get me wrong, it's good work if you can get it. I wouldn't want to do line work, it'd dive me nuts. But it's still not $20 an hour work.....