Bfgrn
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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.
Put the blame where it belongs -- designers obsessed with profit over practicality.
Think please. If you are obsessed with profit, what would you do?
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.
Health care, pensions, etc. are labor costs. UAW drive up labor costs. Unions started out for good reasons, but most became centralized where the union bosses stop caring about their workers. Money from unions goes to politicians for protectionist laws. It's a good crony capitalism racket which mostly benefit the union bosses.
Forced membership into huge centralized unions, removing power from the individual worker and placing it into the hand of union bosses, who only care about themselves, is good for the common worker?
You have all the right wing union bashing down pat. Parrots are good at mimicking.
"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this countrythey are America."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed"
Clarence Darrow