Interview with Mitt Romney on Obama and Gitmo and Cars
HH: And then last question, your father dueled with Walter Reuther for a lot of years over automobile policy, the former head of the UAW. What do you think he would say? What do you say about the UAW basically owning Chrysler, soon to own a large portion of GM?
MR: Well, I see it as a payback that organized labor bosses are getting from Barack Obama. It is an outrageous result. Walter Reuther said to my dad in a private conversation many years ago, he said George, I recognize that less and less work for more and more money is a dead end street. And that’s exactly what the UAW has been doing, looking for less and less work, more and more work rules, more and more restrictions, wanting more and more money, and more and more pension benefits for retirees, and it has killed the domestic automobile industry. And the absolute wrong thing to do is to then reward the UAW by giving them the ownership of that industry. And you’re going to have a lot of people who say hey, I’m not going to be buying Amer