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This is the end of the modern roman empire,tommorrow is going to be brutal.
I could only take about 10 minutes of this lifelong malingerer whining on and on about how the auto unions are 'mistreated', and about the 'anti-union' sentiment in Washington.
Recent statistics show that while the average American worker makes around $28/hr with benefits, the average union worker makes $75/hr. If you have never been a member of any union, you have no idea how much waste there is inside, particularly the blue-collar unions.
Not one single word about what the union could do for the big, 3--not one word.Good news is that the 30% of Americans that live below the poverty level are fine, no where to go, but the middle class are toast!!
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Outscourcing.
I think that I suggested earlier somewhere here that it's the employer's responsibility to manage the union worker you seem so against here.
Decades of Union involvement provided whoever is left today with the $75 per hour rates they get.
Don't blame todays current UAW hourlys for what is happening in Detroit.
If management so chose to manage these employees with more scrutiny, I am sure the production results of work would go up.
I don't work at any of these plants but maybe the question of responsibility to the downfall here lies in the people who manage and make the decisions.
And, if we could get our credit markets to open up easier financing, that would be a start....not to leave out people being employed to qualify wouldn't hurt either.
Since I see that you are also a local, what have you seen as the result of McDonell/Douglas-Boeing in our area???
Go to just one LB swap meet and those results stare us right in our faces.
It is my firm belief that if we can live in this country, we can certainly employee our citizens with manufacturing jobs if our government could give our company's the ability to operate here more affordably.
