The article is not a bad one but it looks at only one small part of the problem...It's pointing out what it wants people to see...The sickness that went on at the motor companies was a product of union greed and total mismanagement of company assets by equally greedy management... By giving the hourly rank and file an increase they then made it very justifiable to increase their own compensation packages... I don't like the UAW ( united auto workers )or the UFT ( United Federation of Teachers ) because their large member base gives them the power to take a company or in the case of the teachers the taxpayers by the throat and strangle them until they pay up... There are many other unions that represent their people in a more reasonable way... Some companies need a union in place to keep things reasonable for the people they have working for them... A good union contract keeps things reasonable for both the employer and the employee... It's nice that import companies like Toyota found such willing folks to work for them in some of the right to work states and the jobs they offer might be far better than what was there before... The numbers being tossed around in that article are inflated for both the Detroit workers and the non union import workers... The thing that actually killed Detroit is it's Demographic.... As older white skilled workers died off or left for greener pastures they left behind an ever worsening soup of welfare sponges that soak up every resource is crime ridden and for the most part unemployable... In an earlier day the workers GM and Chrysler may have been worth the money they were getting however as time went on it may have taken two misfits at a high pay rate to do the same work their predecessor did... The right to work states should not take satisfaction in all this because China and Mexico are soaking up more and more of new production as time goes on... At some point even the reduced wages and longer hours the right to workers offer will not be enough to compete with China and the like.
Topic: Who Killed Detroit? (Read 1815 times)