Posted by rrlund on February 12, 2011 at 08:29:40 from (204.232.93.39):
In Reply to: Re: OT/kinda early posted by Spook on February 12, 2011 at 08:21:48:
You said something about 30% of the workers in the auto plants working there for 90 days or less back in the 70s. I said that one of my best friends had gone to work at Oldsmobile in Lansing back then,and that they had to work 90 days to get in the union and keep their jobs. Most of them that got hired,worked for 87-88 days and got layed off,himself included. Just wondered if you knew why that was,looking back at it. The other general question that I had asked everybody was,what ever happened to anti trust laws that kept companies from getting "too big to fail"? The feds wouldn't let White Motors buy Cummins back in the day because they would have had too big of a share of the market. There was something else that White tried to do that was denied because they owned 30% of Allis Chalmers,but I don't recall off hand what that deal was.
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