Stevie wrote:
nom=de=plume wrote:
"Bill 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.""

http://tinyurl.com/ya4pyay


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.

Then, when the contract expires the company should seek to
renegotiate. It
takes two parties to make a contract. If there's good management in
place,
then the union members will feel better about consessions.


They should be at-will employees, each accountable for their hard work
and dedication to the product they make and the company that employs
them. Union crap like seniority, and other entitlements, only penalize
the hard workers. The payroll and overhead of the union organizers
would land right into the pockets of the workers if they had any self
respect. They are ****ing away millions in dues in order for some to be
slackers who just happened to be on the job a few years earlier than the
rest.

I am with you on the unions, but don't forget management. Move the
corporate offices to China or tax friendly offshore. Have USA as a
seperate company. Hire a crack ace CEO from China for 1/10th the price
and works 10 times smarter and 10 times harder. Develop the Asia
markets to be good enough they can close up manufacturing in the USA.
Dump Ford USA into Obama's lap and say it isn't our problem any more.