Ignorance does not translate into stupidity, not does it suggest that an person's ignorance on any given issue means they cannot learn.  Its time those workers learn perhaps.  It may even take their own union cutting off its own legs to feed its belly as documented in the NY Times:

Ford has been profitable for four consecutive quarters, and this year has restored some compensation for salaried workers, including merit pay increases, tuition reimbursement and matching contributions to retirement accounts.

Mr. King, currently a U.A.W. vice president in charge of the union's work force at Ford, said the union has filed grievances on the matter, accusing Ford of violating its U.A.W. contract.

"We had an understanding about equality of sacrifice," Mr. King told reporters after his speech this week. "None of that, in my view of what the contract is, should have happened without our membership getting the same thing."

Ford could no sooner be looking forward profitably, before the UAW had the rope around its throat already.  

GIMME GIMME YOU GOT YOURS... Pathetic..

First off, a profit for a business should never translate directly to instant pay/benefit increases for the workers so the union handlers can take credit.  The long term viability of any company is its ability to structure away from external forces that command effect contrary to its success.  The union think that has destroyed the industry through clever political triggers, and "boots to the throat" of corporate leadership.

The union leadership doesn't care.  IT'S business (and make no mistake - That is what it is..) is to maximize its own strength through an unholy alliance with certain and government.  And when it cant do that.. It self destructs its membership.  And we have seen that before:

"As I pointed out in an earlier posting, the Teamsters will bankrupt companies who don't capitulate.  The membership of Metalworks of Ludington, a sheet metal and custom fabricator, finds itself opposite of the Teamsters and a strike by local 406 has been called.  The Strike according to Union officials is as a result of Metalworks offer of a five-year contract. The company is offering to give bonuses in the first two years of its five-year proposal and 2 percent increases in each of the following three years.  The union is asking for a three-year contract, and objects to the 2nd pay tier the company also proposes which would offer NEW employees several dollars less per hour while maintaining the current employee's wage levels. (and new 2 % contract increase provisions)

What I pointed out in my posting was that  Performance Transportation Services Inc. assets were sold off, auctioned, went bye-bye, because the Teamsters refused to back off demands and could have SAVED Roy Gross his job.  Some "job security" goal.  However as noted in that post, and earlier here, the Teamsters don't care.  Not one whit, as they have been spreading their plague of dues collecting to other areas within the state and elsewhere. When they lose one industry, they move on to another, like locusts after a major dinner."