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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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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.

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Yup, they should pay the workers what they are worth. A lot less than
they are making. $65 bundled labor cost to install a lug nut?
Yes. I agree. What, pray tell, are they worth? Who determines this? You?

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The market place. Not the union strong arming the company. Between the
union and **** poor management over the at least 40 years before the crash,
there is no way the car companies can succeed.


She runs around here singing her "I'm so smart. I'm so pretty" song. How
can we believe it when she utters such dumb nonsense. It's time we gave
her the boot.