Originally Posted By: LS2JSTS
I personally lay most of the blame at the feet of the UAW. IMO GM and Ford should have broken the UAW union long ago. The tactics employed by the UAW in the Flint strikes and in the more recent targeted strikes amount to nothing less than extortion.
And whats worse is the UAW doesn't even really do their job anymore. When you have new hires doing the same job as lifers but earning half or less in wage and benefits. How can the UAW claim to represent the employees that pay it's dues? Consider that person who got hired at half the wage, are they being represented? Are they the ones who benefit from the union? Heck no. They are screwed and can't afford the cars they are putting together! Henry Ford would be outraged at this situation!
The UAW needs to go away! The wages paid to the employees need to be fair and equitable for all involved, the company, the employee and the people who buy the end product.
What blame lays at the feet of management is smaller even than the blame our own goverment has burdened them with. Regulation and forced evolution are staggering for almost any manufacturing concern in this country. It's as if our government wanted and legislated our industry away, step by step their medling and regulation have shuttered all kinds of businesses.
Now management, they have plenty to be blamed for. The bloated, political systems they allowed to become entrenched because it was easier than ruffling all those internal feathers and dumping people. The fact that they constantly allow the "non car" people to decide the vision and direction of the company. Trust me, there are hundreds of great engineers and development people at GM and Ford. The products they design are fantastic stuff for the most part. I't's the other 90% of the bloated self important management that screws things up.
But in the end the biggest mistake management has to account for. The one that sank the ship. Is in it's own ironic way exactly why the UAW is numero uno in the blame game. Managements weak and [censored] way of dealing with the fraud, extortion and outright gangster tactics of the UAW are unforgivable. In essence IMO, the management allowed the UAW to gut the company from within. In the 80's they had an excellent opportunity to get rid of them, and they passed. Gutless!
+1
Very well said.
I personally lay most of the blame at the feet of the UAW. IMO GM and Ford should have broken the UAW union long ago. The tactics employed by the UAW in the Flint strikes and in the more recent targeted strikes amount to nothing less than extortion.
And whats worse is the UAW doesn't even really do their job anymore. When you have new hires doing the same job as lifers but earning half or less in wage and benefits. How can the UAW claim to represent the employees that pay it's dues? Consider that person who got hired at half the wage, are they being represented? Are they the ones who benefit from the union? Heck no. They are screwed and can't afford the cars they are putting together! Henry Ford would be outraged at this situation!
The UAW needs to go away! The wages paid to the employees need to be fair and equitable for all involved, the company, the employee and the people who buy the end product.
What blame lays at the feet of management is smaller even than the blame our own goverment has burdened them with. Regulation and forced evolution are staggering for almost any manufacturing concern in this country. It's as if our government wanted and legislated our industry away, step by step their medling and regulation have shuttered all kinds of businesses.
Now management, they have plenty to be blamed for. The bloated, political systems they allowed to become entrenched because it was easier than ruffling all those internal feathers and dumping people. The fact that they constantly allow the "non car" people to decide the vision and direction of the company. Trust me, there are hundreds of great engineers and development people at GM and Ford. The products they design are fantastic stuff for the most part. I't's the other 90% of the bloated self important management that screws things up.
But in the end the biggest mistake management has to account for. The one that sank the ship. Is in it's own ironic way exactly why the UAW is numero uno in the blame game. Managements weak and [censored] way of dealing with the fraud, extortion and outright gangster tactics of the UAW are unforgivable. In essence IMO, the management allowed the UAW to gut the company from within. In the 80's they had an excellent opportunity to get rid of them, and they passed. Gutless!
+1
Very well said.
