United Auto Workers members deserve better than this “victory.' Their union has pitted them against their employers, and worse, against their own flourishing.
Pity the members of the United Auto Workers who are ratifying new deals with the Big Three automakers. Sure, they got some combination of wage hikes, better benefits packages and other perks. But they’re being locked into another contract that will stifle their potential, crushing their spirit and, in time, the companies that employ them. I say this from experience. As a college student in 1979, I worked in a grey-iron factory in Ohio, making engine blocks.
One-size-fits-all contracts limit what workers can do, instead of encouraging them to do more, and rewarding them accordingly. The unions are putting people in boxes instead of empowering them to think outside the box. At some point, even good enough is a bridge too far. Chicago public schools are proof of that. I often think of my colleagues in that grey-iron factory, with all their squashed ambition and untapped talent. They were told, like me, that pushing themselves was the enemy.
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