Bfgrn
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And they made a lot of crappy cars consumers didn't want.
UAW forced US car companies labor costs very high vs. import. UAW prevented cost-saving by blocking use of innovative high-efficiency technologies. Left with few options to control costs, execs switched cars designs from expensive quality parts to cheap inferior parts. US cars gets worse and worse. People began to buy Japanese cars instead of US cars.
UAW made it impossible for US companies to compete with Japanese manufacturers.
Right wing bullshit.
If you want to look at what puts US car makers at a huge disadvantage, I will spell it for you:
HEALTH CARE COSTS... Take General Motors. They're currently paying out $1,525 per vehicle for health care. Compare that to the $201 Toyota is paying and it sounds even more absurd.
Every other industrialized nation has national health care, except for America, which is infested with right wing cancer.