Ken, Thanks for the interesting insight. Bob S. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ken Waller<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> M. Adam Maas >>> http://www.mawz.ca >>> Explorations of the City Around Us. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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