Unions have their place. Fighting for workers rights and good enough pay and benefits.

Unions have NO Place in the engineering sections. They also shoudl not have the ability to chop apart a fully automated line to create a job for people to move, say an engine block, from the output of one process to the input of another process.

I saw similar things where they force GM to cut a 6 foot section out of a chain line to make it so that a person had to "assisted lift" an engine block from one part of what was obviously a single line output of one machining process to input of the next machining process, except they took out the line from it.

I also saw automated screw and tightening machine have one or more stations disabled so that a person could put in a screw and another could then torque it further down. Rather than have it be one process and insert and tighten the screw with one machine.

Don't think I'm for all this bull, but the excesses the Union took and are still taking in GM Ford and Chrysler... sheesh.