I blame the UAW for the economics of the industry, not the assembly
line problems.
Bob
I worked in the Ford St Louis Assembly plant for several years as the
Vehicle Resident Engineer during the mid to late 80's.
I could go on and on about union caused assembly line issues but I can tell
you that toward the end of my stay at the plant (I returned to Dearborn)
these issues became almost non existent, as the union realised they had to
do the very best they could do to protect their jobs (non selling vehicles =
less/no jobs).The transformation was simply unbelieveable - wouldn't have
believed it unless I experienced it.
Bad union/company relationship at the assembly is no where near as bad as it
use to be.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sullivan" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Consumer Reports on "cool cameras"
Ken,
I blame the UAW for the economics of the industry, not the assembly
line problems. The union might as well have used a mask and a gun to
hold up the auto makers in the '60's. That's when I notices the big
wages and generous benefit packages. You could argue that it was
better to hire on with a UAW job at an auto maker than spend money
going to college. Company managements always gave in and just passed
the costs back to the customers. Cheaper foreign manufacturing
eventually broke the paradyme that union and management were using, to
the advantage of the consumer.
Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Adam Maas<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote:
I blame the United Auto Workers for all the industry problems.
I'd agree if the issues were assembly related.
Kenneth Waller
Which a fair amount of them were/are. Can't blame the UAW for
everything though, the Detroit management and the dealers are as much
or more to blame for the Big 3's problems as the UAW.
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