Why the UAW is doomed

Their brother and sister unions are weak, and those who've broken away from the AFL-CIO to form the CTW have completely written them off.

The Andy Stern's (leader of the breakaway CTW movement and head of the SEIU) of the world have acknowledged that they cannot maintain their cushy lifestyles at the cost of their members without dramatic change. They've deemed the leadership of the AFL-CIO weak and ineffectual and soft when it comes to organizing; and thereby weak, ineffectual, and soft when it comes to keeping dues flowing into their own personal standard of living. They don't even care about continuing to target the typical American worker. They feel its easier to target less informed newly immigrated (whether legally or not) workers who they feel are more complicit, and easier to pacify. He's publicly acknowledged that it's not so much about fighting for workers rights, but rather "partnering" with businesses and finding the middle-ground. The most likely to buy that is the less informed worker, not the Detroiter's of the world who know what unions have truly accomplished in the past -- not that I agree it's been for the best long term interest of the workers or the indusrties in which they work. Again, it's more about, and always has been about, the personal gains of the union leaders than it is about any socially responsible action. It's just now the Andy's of the world have written off being able to exploit the previous groups any further and are moving on to new "hosts".

The CTW consider themselves the strongest most agressive recruiters and they are targeting the least challenging groups to line their pockets. They could care less about their previous brothers and sisters who they feel are weak and will leave them to their fate. That fate was partially determined by lax and ineffectually leadership of previous generations of union leaders, that if they would have focused on core American values of hard work for fair compensation (not something for nothing) would not have put the workers in their current situation. The people who didn't provide a fair days labor for fair wages would have been out instead of protected. Then the imports would not have the initial foothold that started the decline of the domestic auto industry.