Last time I checked, Big 3 does pay an average $70+/hr (yes, with all the benifits included) to the union workers.

Screw the UAW! Unions are dragging this country down big time! Just look around. When you see small projects such as reparing an esclator in the Penn Station of NYC that would take more than a year to finish, when you see ground zero proudly remain to be a big gaping hole for seven years, when you see NJT (new jersey transit) workers who don't give a damn when trains are delayed longer and longer day after day and schedule after schedule (when in Japan a two minute delay of the train would be considered a disaster), you know things are very wrong in this country. The construction cost sky-rocketed and we are fast becoming a 3rd world country!

If politicians are not willing to get rid of the union system for fear of lossing a big chunk of the voting pool, then just let the market force do the job. Let the failure of the big 3 mark the beginning of an end of the era of unionized labor. Chapter 11 is the only way to save this nation, period!