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Remember the Pinto's catching fire? The shield that prevented the fires was supposedly a 5 cent part. The management at Ford at the time chose to save 5 cents and pay the insurance claims.
Sorry, most of this isn't about unions. Most of it is about penny-pinchers thinking they are engineers. I have a buddy that is an engineer at Chrysler. He could go on for hours on how the accountants at Chrysler saved a penny here and a penny there only to have a huge warranty issue in the end. It is still cheaper than making the cars right.
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