By Doug Cunningham

Ford said Thursday it’s closing plants in St. Paul Minnesota and Norfolk, Virginia. The United Auto Workers union says the closings are a continuation of the devastating restructuring plan Ford announced in January. The UAW says workers are paying the price for Ford’s loss of market share and the nation’s failure to enact rational, job-creating policies for U.S. industry. The UAW is paying a steep price, too. According to filings with the U.S. Labor Department the UAW lost 10.5 percent of its members in 2005 – down to a total of 557,000 active members in the U.S.