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Default Ford's success...


"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"JohnH" wrote in message
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...will last until the union or the government figures out a way to
stop it.

" Ford is also running into resistance from its unionized work force
as it tries to cut costs further.

Its improving fortunes were the main reason cited by the United
Automobile Workers on Monday for rejecting another round of labor
concessions that would have roughly matched concessions that workers
at Chrysler and General Motors approved in the spring."

The U.A.W.'s president, Ron Gettelfinger, and its vice president in
charge of the Ford unit, Bob King, said in a statement that the
carmaker's third-quarter profit was "evidence of the contributions
that Ford workers have made.""

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Why should they cave to demands from management? How about producing
decent products that people want to buy?

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Nom=de=Plume


They are decent products. But if you are paying some low skilled laborer
excess money, then the decent product is priced out of the market.