Re: Thank the Unions

Posted by jdemaris on March 26, 2005 at 07:56:11 from (209.23.30.157):

In Reply to: Financial woes at GM. NO WONDER!!! posted by Deere Scotty on March 25, 2005 at 23:25:24:

I suspect you will see the same thing happening soon with the other major auto companies. They are more-or-less held hostage by labor unions and are forced, to some degree, to pay very high wages and large benefit packages to many workers that are not highly skilled. I'm sure, to many people, this sounds like the "American Dream", but we all pay for it in the end. And, if everybody in this country, no matter what their level of expertise, is paid a high wage and great benefits - then the price of everything will go up accordingly, our money will be worth that much less, and we'll all be back where we started. Maybe then we can call ourselves France? You mention trying to get a truck with the Duramax engine. Why do you think Chevy is now using a Japanese built diesel engine (Isuzu builds the Duramax) instead of using their own?
I was working for a John Deere dealer in the mid-80s when the auto-workers union held a strike on John Deere parts production. The union claimed, at the time, it was for two reasons. One, to get more money for the workers at Deere (and for the union, of course), and two - to scare the large auto companies into submission. The mindset was, if they could do it to John Deere, they could do it to anyone. The union won after Deere Co. was crippled for over half a year. Now, as I see it, we've all lost. Yet, how many people gripe about buying Chinese parts? Even that is not always cheap. I just bought some parts for my 1960 Deere 1010 crawler from the Deere dealer. I paid a high price and every Deere box of parts had "made in China" on it. Still paid the normal high price though, wonder why?

Follow Ups:

• Re: Thank the Unions Union Member 06:28:13 03/27/05 (2)
  • Re: Thank the Unions dr.sportster 07:29:53 03/27/05 (0)
  • Re: You are wrong jdemaris 07:29:31 03/27/05 (0)
• Re: Thank the Unions cowdude 05:13:06 03/27/05 (0)
• Re: Thank the Unions TomR Ont. 10:27:48 03/26/05 (1)
  • Re: Thank the Unions jdemaris 07:44:07 03/27/05 (0)
• Re: Thank the Unions John Horner 08:40:07 03/26/05 (0)

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