Several companies have attempted to escape the UAW and have even gone international to do so. In 1999, General Motors attempted to change the way it produced cars and use modular manufacturing. General Motors' "Project Yellowstone" would save the company billions of dollars. “…GM's "Project Yellowstone" never got anywhere. The United Auto Workers cried out for job losses, and GM, wary of a strike, walked out. “The word 'modular' is no longer in GM's vocabulary,” was the concession in February of Donald Hackworth, GM's senior vice president of manufacturing” (Jones, Terril Yue, Forbes, 2000). The Dana Corps company partnered with DaimlerChrysler and moved to Brazil. General Motors and UWA have been “partners” since the beginning of the auto industry, so why should UWA stop General Motors from saving money and fostering new business relationships? You might say the UWA is trying to preserve jobs, as UWA President Stephen P. Yokich said “Just another way to destroy good paying jobs” (Jones, Terril Yue, Forbes, 2000 ). UWA is an organization like any other that aims to preserve and maintain jobs at all costs. UWA realizes that the state of the automotive industry is changing, as is the economy. The UWA may have to look to other means to create and maintain business relationships, jobs and techniques. The Body Blocked article also mentioned “A University of Michigan study says 74,000 unionized jobs would be lost to modular manufacturing if it were adopted in the United States, especially as jobs would shift from unionized auto plants to suppliers of non-unionized members” (Jones, Terril Yue, Forbes, 2000). Modular manufacturing may be the least of the UWA's worries as companies find alternatives to do business in Rust