Here's a fun fact.... Guess who started unionized labor in America??
The anwser: Communists! :)
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/cpproject/grijalva.htm
Seriously, Ford and GM aren't hurting because their union, it's because
of what cars they make. If you look at your everyday driver, they are
concerned about fuel economy. They buy the hondas and toyotas because
theyre reliable, and get good milage.
How does a hemi-powered charger or a 4.6l Mustang fit into this??? It
doesn't. There's only a small percentage of people who want power, the
rest of them want economy.
This is exactly what happened in the 70's when the oil embargo hit. The
big 3 made their big boats, and the imports made economy cars. Everyone
knows that's when the imports secured a huge foothold in the american
market. And they're taking a bigger share now. Toyota just about took
over as #1, and theyre going to take more real quick.
So it's not really unions, or retirement pensions, or healthcare. It's
the stupidity of the people running Ford and GM.
Gary Hedlin
05 4.7 SLT
98 3.9 Sport
Rick Barnes wrote:
> Spoken like a true Union Man...I was one also. The City of Miami had the
> largest municipal employees union in the U.S. Unions hate CEOs, at least
> the successful ones. I refuse to blame a company's woes on a CEOs pay, that
> is just silly. Worker's "rights" are not on the decline, just the opposite,
> but I hear you, that's what our Union told us too.
> Question: Name ONE company that improved its product when its workforce
> became unionized...take your time, you will need it. Must be those CEOs...
> Unions had their place at one time, but now they are nothing but shills for
> the Democratic plantation, (Hilary's words).
> Union membership nationwide has been on the decline for 16 years now and the
> slide will continue. Most will just bail off the ships that they helped
> sink.
>
> Rascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Peter A Athens
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:50 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
>
>
> Rick Barnes wrote:
>
>>The unions are what are killing our automakers
>>and adding so much cost to a car that there may be no hope for the big 3
>>or
>>at least the big 2.
>
>
> With all due respect and as a union member myself I have to disagree with
> this particular assessment.I'll grant that the use of union labor costs more
>
> in terms of manhours vs. non-union labor, it's not the use of union labor
> that's killing the big 2 considering that Toyota for a fact also uses UAW
> members in it's plants here in the US. While I cannot make that claim for
> certain with other import manufacturers with assembly plants here in the
> U.S. I suspect that the majority of them also use union labor. In this day
> of slowly decreasing worker's rights and skyrocketing CEO benefits, a lot of
>
> companies including the auto manufacturers are looking to cut costs wherever
>
> they can and since the only way the unions could kill the automakers is that
>
> their salaries and benefits cannot be reduced. So for the CEOs to be able
> keep making the obscene amounts of money, the powers that be would rather
> make sacrifices elsewhere by cutting corners on the materials used and
> outsourcing whatever they can. A big part of what is killing the big 3 is
> that the majority of Americans are brainwashed into believing that domestic
> vehicles are inferior to their imported counterparts. And I suspect that the
>
> CEOs of the import automakers make a bit less and have less benefits than
> their domestic counterparts.
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