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Originally Posted by tw
So union workers created all that stifled innovation for 30 years in GM?
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Despite tw's crazy rants about pre-WWII fuel injection technology being so wonderful, he's right on the money about the unions and their relationship with the manufacturers.
The car company would come to the bargaining table and say, we'll give you a little bit now, but we'll take care of you when you retire. But when the contract was signed, they let the promises become the problem of the management that followed them, when they retired with millions in cash and stock options.
Most of the work rules, on which the companies had plenty of input and agreed to, are enforcement of safety procedures. Many of them are just following federal law that would be ignored without the unions. Even with them, too many people die or are disabled by unsafe work practices in pursuit of the almighty buck.
Chinese workers are cheap and they are dieing by the thousands, to keep walmart rolling in cash.