What planet are you living on? GM almost went out of business because the United auto-workers drove up input costs to the point that they could make no profits. Not small profits. NO PROFITS.
Counterpoint: Volkswagen in Germany has an organized labor rate of about 98%, workers have 32hour work weeks and 6 weeks (IIRC) of holiday per year. And half of the seats in the board of advisories are represantatives of the workers*. Yet, they are quite profitable.
* = Thats German law for public companies.
edit: typo.
Is that why Crapwagens break all the time?
oh come now, all manufacturers have better and worse efforts, the mid 90s golfs and jettas remain some of the most reliable vehicles ever produced
that said, as I have become older I have realized, depressingly, that absent the threat of starvation all too many people will refuse to do a god dammed thing