Now here is a surprise....

[Bill Bess]

I have 30 years of working as a management person dealing with union workers, contracts, labor rules, shop committees , strikes and those pesky union officials.. and all of these things combined are part of the root cause of our problems.

Many union workers are somewhat lazy, don't want to do quality work, don't like to meet deadlines, they steal, cheat and try to cause as much trouble as possible.
They do however want high wages, super benefits and plenty of time off. They also want the company to pay for everything along with money for college for they're kids and a healthy retirement and 100% free medical.
Just ask a UAW or Teamsters about their benefits and entitlements...it's un real.

I guess you know I don't really like union folks very well although there are a few with good standards and values that actually do produce..guess where they end up...management.

I saw a commercial on TV the other night..it showed an assemblyline with a worker hanging a wheel and tire onto a hub, he then placed the five lug nuts onto the wheel and proceeded to tighten them with a pneumatic impact gun.
The vehicle continues down the line to the next worker that slips an automatic lug wrench tool that tightens the same 5 lugs that had just been tighten by the first worker, maybe this has something to do with a special torgue requirement?
Two union employees to put on a wheel.........back in 1960, I witnessed at several car manufaturing plants the same job being done by only one man.
This is only one of the example that demonstrats why cars cost so much and unions are so strong..what's wrong with this picture?

In addition, when auto unions require that a fixed number of union workers are mandated to work on a car when machines can do most if the work..the costs will continue to climb.

I'm done..this is only a small part of the problems that unions cause.

Bill