Even the United Auto Workers knows that sometimes it's necessary to bite the bullet to come out ahead in the long term. On Monday, February 23, the UAW and the Ford Motor Co. announced they had hammered out the details of a new agreement to preserve retiree health care benefits without jeopardizing the company's existence. The pact would have Ford to pay the union up to half its liabilities in the form of company stock. Given precipitous declines in auto industry stock prices over the last year, it's a sensible way to avoid disaster.
