I'm not taking a shot at organized labor, but a big part of the auto industry problem is that you can't have people on an assembly line earning substantially more money than the people who are purchasing the products made on that line, that plus the fact that either by design, or by manufacturing processes, those products are of less quality than the competition's, while at the same time, costing more, both initially as well as over the long term, and ending up with less residual value at the time the customer wants to replace said product.