The workers aren't suffering from the ignorance of the corporate management...they are suffering from the ignorance of their elected union leadership who forced noncompetitive contract terms on the big 3. Strikes were intended to be used when working conditions are so bad the workers could not be expected to go to work. The UAW and today's union leadership as a whole has used the weapon of strikes as a strategic negotiations tool to force unreasonable contracts on the management, knowing the investors would punish management if they let disruptions of production impact the quarterly earnings reports. The result is a non-competitive business. Continuing to put blinders on and accept the class warfare fantasies of "big bad management" and "poor suffering workers" will only help the unions continue the death spiral of american manufacturing. It is no secret nor a surprise that the only places in America where manufacturing is thriving are in right to work states where the unions don't hold absolute power over companies.