I have to admit that Rascal has some pertinent facts and despite the fact I
still respectfully disagree, my AM radio is off as well.... LOL
Pete
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:56:12 -0600
From: "Rick Barnes" <rascal@scrtc.com>
Subject: RE: Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
Lol Tim, okay, mine is turned off....
Rascal
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Pindell, Tim
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:20 PM
To: dml@dakota-truck.net
Subject: RE: Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
Alright...No more AM radio for EITHER of you...
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
>truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Rick Barnes
>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:42 AM
>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>Subject: RE: Subject: Re: DML: OT: Drive a Ford or get off the lot.
>
>
>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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