Comments on: Union Workers: Not Doing the Job that Non-Union Workers Would (Gladly) Do

By: dianne

dianne — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:07 +0000

I’ve got mixed feelings about this one. First of all I don’t know what they’re striking for and if memory serves, GM let a big portion of their workforce go last spring under a buyout program and new hires are making significantly less than before with fewer benefits so maybe their strike has a legit basis. Anybody know the specifics?

By: Blado

Blado — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:52:51 +0000

Actually a Camry made in Japan…..its a stick, the auto is made in Kentucky I believe.

By: Duke DeLand

Duke DeLand — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:58:38 +0000

Muggins…..

I spent two years at Caterpillar…..same union, same mentality as any UAW operation…..

Most heard phrase by the workers on the line, “It ain’t my tractor!”

Professional……..right!

Duke

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:55:20 +0000

As a mechanic, who spent most years at GM, I personally own two Toyotaâ€™s, by far a better car. Until the big three crush the unions, they will continue to make crap that only a fool would buy.

And again NOT My Post! I hate Toyota’s

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:14:25 +0000

GM has had an “unreliable, ill-tempered, and short-sighted monolithic work force” since the early sixties. There is no way to keep these characters happy. Southeastern Michigan is crowded with ‘em. And look who they vote for!

By: J

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:44:39 +0000

One of the biggest problems the UAW (and all unions) have is that the threat of a union frequently results in better wages and benefits than actually having one – http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/18/biz_biz1toy.html

“If the corporations had no resistance to
lower wages and no benefits, there would be a
competition between corporations to pay lower wages,
until they work under asian conditions”

Irrelevant in this case – most if not all Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas sold in the US were built here, or in Canada.

“I personally own two Toyotaâ€™s, by far a better car. Until the big three crush the unions…”

If either of them is a Corrolla or Tundra, they were built by UAW members.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:25:18 +0000

As a mechanic, who spent most years at GM, I personally own two Toyota’s, by far a better car. Until the big three crush the unions, they will continue to make crap that only a fool would buy.

By: Major John

Major John — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:27:00 +0000

until they work under asian conditions

Uh, wouldn’t that make them Nissan or Toyota? I had heard two descriptors of GM to this point – and never quite understood how true they were:

A defined benefits plan with an auto manufacturing division;

A health plan that makes cars on the side.