I guess the fact that General Motors couldn't handle having 51% of the world's largest and richest auto market in the world, and handed their market segment to Asian competition on a silver platter while the Roger Smiths of the world worried about top possible profits while making absolute garbage doesn't count. But yeah, that 10 year period where the Big three still had the market and the union got lazy and had corrupt leadership must have been it.
The dudes bolt cars together, that's all they do. It's hard, repetitive work that uses human bodies as an expendable commodity. So we've had a generation where the company had the upper hand over labor, and we saw how that turned out. Union laborers bolt cars that engineers deign to the budgets the suits set. No one mentions the overpaid managers/executives that made a generation of bad decisions and gave their customer base ample reason to look elsewhere.
Behind every bad decision handed down from management was an engineer saying "I wouldn't do that, it's going to fail"
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tom abel wrote:
didnt hear anybody say union corruption? theres a reason the big 3 and foreign car companys moved to the south the right to work states ie bmw in south carolina and ford in kentucky and others.
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