What are the effects of unionization in auto industry in the U.S, in today's day and age?

Answer 1

the unions are I guess I should say Have killed the American auto industry

Answer 2

At one times, unions were good and necessary to protect the worker from big corporations, many of which had corupt people at high levels. Workers were not treated fairly and they had little in the way of rights. Unions came in and all but solved the problem, giving the worker somebody who could stick up for them... that's fairly generalized but it gives you an idea on the origins of unions.
Having said that, in today's society, unions aren't really needed. All they tend to do is help to drive up the cost of the products the workers build. Union workers pay union dues and those dues are suppost to go to help workers if there's a strike or if they have health issues and they aren't covered.. and the dues do more than that, however, workers tend to be very well compensated these days without the need of unions. Unions give workers more power than they should have. If a unionized employee does something they shouldn't do while on the job, more often than not they get away with it because the union supports them, backs them up, fights for their 'right' and to stay on the job. If a worker is guilty of something that they should be fired for, then they should be fired... but unions stick up for the worker and that's wrong. Unions today have far too much power and, in my opnion, and the opinion of many others, they have a negative effect on the economy. Vehicles, for example, would probably be 20% cheaper if not for the unionized worker.
Do some research into unions and manufacturers. You'd be surprised by the cost of unions to the workers, to the manufacturers, and to the consumer.
In this day and age, we should be looking at decreasing the number and power of unions, thereby decreasing an unnecessary cost of manufacture and passing the savings on to consumers.
This is only my opinion, but it's an opinion held by many people, including a lot of former unionized employees that are retired and see what kind of power unions currently enjoy and the effect they have on people.

Answer 3

The power that unions have in any industry forces the corporation to charge more for the goods and services they provde, to offset the benefit costs that unions demand. The American Auto Industry is having a terrible time competeing with foreign Auto makers that are not unionized because they can keep prices lower with lower overhead.
The American auto industry have hurt themselves in other ways by not being ready for the inevitble high price of fuel by continueing to push the big gas gugglers.

Answer 4

You could right a 200 page dissertation on that question, but the answer depends on who you ask...

here's an effect you don't know about... The auto industry has caused a complete and utter logjam in the US railways system, since all the major automakers have assembly plants located in mexico and ship finished cars by rail.

Answer 5

it is absolutely horrible, unions are the reason we can not make a cheap , dependible automobile like the japanese, you have guys working for gm as a janitor making 80 thousand a year, now i'm not against anyone making a good living, but the unions have really hurt the auotmobile business, and its not so much how much the people that work there make, its the retirment packages that the union forces upon gm to pay in their contracts with their employees, have you been to a chevy dealer lately? their trucks are WAY over priced. now i always buy american, but i think is harder for people to do that these days.