So his “snubbing” of Canada may be intentional. Maybe CAW members will realize what this will mean to them and will have their leadership change their approach to upcoming negotiations before the April 30th deadline. Otherwise — St. Louis (and any other Chrysler mothballed plant) will have plenty to celebrate. The auto industry in Canada … will be a ghost industry.

Thank you, CAW for creating American jobs!

CNN has reported these stories, and the consensus is that if the union digs in and doesn’t concede Chrysler will likely end up in a Chapter 7 liquidation. They conclude this by explaining that no company would ever step in to pick up the ashes (IE what Fiat is offering to do) because none would want the union costs associated with it.

Chrysler is going to dangle in the wind, and tens of thousands of people who were previously paid way too much and refused to be paid reasonable wages (and, yes, a cut of $19/hr is reasonable – if Toyota and Honda workers can live on those wages, so can Big Three workers doing identical work) will now instead be paid nothing. This is the one bright spot in the fall of Chrysler: Hopefully GM’s union rabble will learn their places as they stare over the corpse of what was once Chrysler.