If Ford can wait until all its Union workers are dead, it might have a chance at surviving as a car manufacturer. It needs to build a completely new automated plant with no workers. That's what Unions have achieved - they have bled American Industry so badly that we practically have no industry left and if we do produce anything it has to be completely, entirely, 100% without workers at all.

By the way, Ford makes money everywhere else in the world, but it reported that it lost over $1.4 billion in its North American operations in the first nine months of 2005. The company knows how to make cars and make money but not with the United Auto Workers.

This is what happens when thugs work in your company:

"Teamsters’ union officials are forcing non-member employees to pay fees at the extraordinary rate of 91.85% of full member dues, and they are doing so without a proper accounting and without providing an adequate process through which non-members can challenge the amount."

When the International Brotherhood of Thugs, I mean Teamsters, struck against UPS in 1997, the only reason they didn't kill the package carrier altogether was the explosion of Internet deliveries. Without the Internet, UPS concessions would certainly have destroyed the company.

The time to get rid of Unions (Teamsters, United Auto Workers, doesn't matter - all of them) is now - just while they're shooting themselves in the foot.