What, exactly, is so complex? You start with 16 teams. Run 3 races, cut 4 teams. Run 3 races, cut 4 more. Run 3 races cut 4 more. Now you have 4 teams and one race left - best finisher of the 4 takes the championship.

What Ford and FCA should do is allow the idea of ‘pattern bargaining’ to simply blow up in the UAW’s face. If those companies don’t have the bargaining chip of plant closures on the table then the whole idea that the contract should follow the same pattern as with GM seems to be a moot point. I’m guessing both…

“The old ICE cars will then be scrapped.” This is just like Cash for Clunkers, wasteful as fuck. So we’re going to take a perfectly good 2012 Accord with 120k miles and simply scrap it?

Glad I’m not the only one that caught that.  They don’t really connect the dot between pay and the worker/company relationship.  I’ve working at a Japanese non-union plant and most of the workers on the floor feel more like a team.  They are empowered to be problem solvers and find issues, rather than simply show up…

Well, I’m not going to trust you because I don’t know you.

So in short, the judge is saying that if you are a victim of negligence, the laws of Michigan don’t actually protect you enough to make suing over it financially viable. You have to invoke a different statue which almost has no chance of applying to make it so. You can thank lawyers and lawmakers for that, it seems.

So it would appear that rats turn out to be much better at driving than all of the mouth-breathing idiots, with whom I share I-85 and I-77.

It’s called living right.

The last picture in the article of the BMW is extraordinarily unflattering.  

Only if you think every person thinks exactly like you...

Like you, I’m 100% certain that 100% of those on strike were at the picket line.

Yes. - to the first part.  No to the second.

I especially like the part where the UAW would get paid a bonus to ratify the agreement - effectively turning their strike into a paid vacation. This seems to make a strike much easier to stomach since there ultimately isn’t much of a real financial sacrifice in the end.  

It’s sad to say but it still looks better than the Hyundai-inspired front end...

Big fucking surprise that media/bloggers try to get a rise out of people with shitty headlines.  It’s basically click-bait.  

Meh...

Think about it for a second. The average union worker at GM makes $90k/year according to a very unscientific Google search.

That’s no shit. It’s truly sad that those two movies are morphing into predictive-documentaries.

Why walk when you can be lazy and fat?

I would wager that in spite of all of this, he has spent less than most people have on their last single vehicle purchase.