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Couldn't agree more. Also know that 95% of the UAW workers are hard working people. But on the other hand, the UAW "Constitutional Convention" as you put it, should be representing those people's views. If most of the workforce is willing to take a benefits cut as you say, then that's what they should take to the table, not the hardliner approach of "we will give up nothing and let this company go under". When I read articles that interview the average UAW line worker and they say "we can pay more for healthcare if it means helping the company survive", why can't the negotiators share this view? If I'm part of the UAW and paying $X per month for someone to represent my views and I see something I disagree with, I let my voice be heard, because chances are there are many others that feel the same. Who's fault is it if UAW leadership doesn't share the views of the majority of its workers?

Do I feel its ok for cuts and layoffs? Hmmm, without going off into another tangent about just cuts to the UAW/Auto Industry, cuts and layoffs are sometimes necessary for the health of a company. I'm mean if the company goes down, everyone gets cut and everyone loses. Sacrifice the few for the good of the many. This is a general statement for businesses, obvioulsly the auto industry isn't your average business, unlike the vast majority of other American businesses. That being said, cuts and layoffs suck and nobody should have to go through them, but this is part of life these days, period. The UAW is the last little part of the American workforce that has not had to deal with the current problems facing American workers. Now they are. Well, welcome to the real world, it sucks right now, join the club, here's your t-shirt. Sure, the UAW loses membership every year, but those all come from retirements and voluntary leaves, but nobody gets let go. As for this: I am from the school of thinking that my wage and my wage increases should be based on 1) my experieince and 2) how well I continue do my job. I do not want someone I have never met to go into a meeting and negotiate my wage increase for the next 4 years, I want to either earn or not earn that based on my quality of work. If I want it better or think I'm worth more, I work harder or get an education or find a new job. In the UAW, you get what you get no matter how hard you work or how much better quality your work is compared to others. As for this: Guess what, all GM employees, management and grunts received zero raises last year and probably will not recieve any again for this year's work. Executives' bonuses are gone too. The UAW workforce vastly outnumbers the salaried workforce, so when people demand that executives take pay cuts too, even if that happened, the total $ is very small compared to the total money problems at the company. It would be more of a symbolic gesture than an actual fix.

I couldn't have said it any better. The average American worker has been getting laid off with no warning at all for the last 6 years....walk into work one day and there's the pink slip on your desk, no warning, no negotiating. Why should the UAW have it any different? What makes them better than the other American workers in other professions? They have been sheltered from the real world for a long long time. Its about time they have to face the problems that the rest of America is having. They will get no sympathy from me.

The Yukon never had a ram air hood or hood scoop, that was bad info.

Technically, any MY08 vehicle can be sold to the public on Jan. 1, 2007, which is less than 18 months away.

There is no hood scoop on the Yukon.

Hmmmm. Would I: 1) Like to have a job where my raise amount and timing is based on my ability to do good work on time. OR 2) Get a set raise every year that is the exact same as the guy standing next to me who does nothing productive, screws around, disappears for periods of time, and I have to fix mistakes for. Plus I have to now pay a monthly fee for this privilege. Yeah, that's a tough one.

Let's see: a new interior, exterior, and powertrain doesn't make it "all new" enough for you? What else would you like to have changed? I mean, what's left? Do you want radical new plastic clips for the wire harnesses too? :rolleyes: