Reply #30: Wow, ALLOW unions in their plants? [View All]

Unions are only needed when management falls down on their duties. Toyota, Nissan, and Honda have better management and have stayed busy adding jobs in the last 30 years. Of course they didn't have overhead of 30 or 40 years of retirements to support, those costs are just now starting. What's the dynamic of UAW and management done for the US worker? Cut the work force in half? How about the pay cuts at American Axle? What 40%?

How many people know about the Hudson designers that Roger Smith brought out of retirement to redesign the Caprice? Brilliant! Take one of the best sellers in the Chevy line - two plants going strong, one in Flint and one in Texas. Cuts the demand in half, bye bye Flint plant. Again, my point was management not recognizing their market. The Caprice was selling to an older crowd that didn't care about styling, but about if the car was going to hold up and the powertrain did just that. Kept the powertrain but made the car dog ugly, messed up the weight distribution so that it messed up the handling. That was the lawyers and accountants in place of car people at the top making decisions that cost jobs and STILL get golden paracutes?