CAW workers should not be eligible for Employment Insurance

In Canada, my understanding about the way Employment Insurance eligibility works is as follows. If a Canadian is unemployed, they must actively seek employment while receiving EI payments and are obligated to accept any job for which they are qualified and where the compensation is competitive. Otherwise, EI payments would cease.

In the case of the CAW, they have an offer on the table to keep their existing jobs at $57/hr rather than the $76/hr they have "negotiated" over the years. Since Toyota pays its auto workers $57/hr, then the offer of $57/hr is competitive. Each CAW worker is obviously qualified to keep their existing jobs.

When the Chrysler and GM file for bankruptcy in the next 40 days, and the CAW workers lose their jobs, I hope that their either have the personal integrity to not ask the Canadian taxpayer to provide them with Employment Insurance benefits, or the government rightly denies them these benefits for failing to accept a fair and reasonable offer of employment from GM and Chrysler.

The CAW has "negotiated" for increased benefits for its members in the past when times were different and the Big Three auto workers could find a way to pay these rising employment costs. They claim that these gains were "fairly negotiated" and that they have a right to protect these gains for all eternity. How can they, with a straight face and honest conscience, cry fowl when the Big Three are simply negotiating employment terms that will enable these companies to survive.
The hypocracy of the CAW leaders and their membership is thicker that a London fog!