American vs. Cheap

[Turk]

Misfit,
Selling Chevrolets is a challenge. I don't think it is because the Unions didn't do their jobs, it is mainly because the Managers didn't design cars people would buy. Same managers also didn't see to it that union workers did their jobs.

I have a different take on unions than some. It is not like diplomatic immunity to be a union worker. I have seen many suspended and fired. I have seen many union workers who have taken pay cuts to the point their jobs no longer pay what they would in the open market had they been non-union.

My neighbor is an out of work Airline Pilot with 17 years experience. He is looking for other flying jobs with regional carriers that will start him at $25,000 a year if he would relocate or fly out of locations 2000 miles away.

Union wages,and benefits alone do not design a bad car. Creative minds at GM is soley responsible for the drab and unreliable cars of the 80s and 90s.

Honda and Toyota did a fine job, NOT because they were cheaper, they sold like hot cakes because they were BETTER.

Unions are not lilly white either. They did their damage to the US economy. At some point they are no longer to blame. Management is.

Some of the myth of what it must be like to be a union worker is a joke. I have not witnessed the kind of immunity a union worker would receive like the examples given here.

Since union memberships are way down, and most US workers are non union, my guess is on any given day there are more drunk and drugged irresponsible non union workers out there. It is more indicative of the work ethic that is currently the norm.

TURK