"That's the employee's fault how? You did whatever. Auto workers
applied
for auto mfg jobs. You resent anyone that labors, for a living getting
an adequate wage. In your world only stock swindlers and gamblers are
entitled to a decent living."

Depends on what you mean by "adequate wage" and "decent living."


Around here the local factories pay maintenance workers something like
$18-22.00 hr. and are pretty well satisfied with it. . When the Ford
plant in St. Louis closed a couple years ago, a guy running a
pneumatic air wrench tightening lug nuts was making $34.00 an hr.

The maintenance workers in one place must attend seminars and
schooling (company paid, of course) on equipment repair and must sign
their names to maintenance procedures which are then signed by
supervisors so that machinery is maintained properly and by code.
the guy with the lug wrench has a lunch bucket.

So I look at it like this. One group isn't making enough, or the other
is making too much.

"Quite bitching about losing at the table. "

One is still going to work daily and the other one's plant got shut
down.

So who lost?