On Nov 11, 2:40*pm, Mitchell Holman wrote:
"Bob Campbell" wrote :

"Doorman" wrote in message
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Apparently you don't know how bad off the unions have made it for GM.
There are 780,000 people collecting retirement or their dependents. *A
business cannot survive like that.

Not only that, there are several thousand full time employees who do
nothing! * Their jobs were described as "for life" by the union. * So
even though these jobs have been eliminated, these people go to the
union hall or whatever the hell it is, and sit and watch TV for 8 hours
a day to get their full pay!

NO COMPANY can survive this kind of crap. * *The unions have killed the
US auto industry, not any President.

* *The German automakers are all unionized and still
turn out good cars and make a profit. Perhaps you are
wrong?

Bad management and not building cars that appeal as much as imports
has killed American automakers way more than unions.
That and having to pay health care when every other civilized
industrial country on earth takes care of this as a basic right, and
is paid by taxpayers rather than employers.

Unions are a problem, but making bad cars that people don't want is a
worse problem.
(Yes, I drive a Dodge. It's an OK car. Felt good buying American,
but honestly the quality isn't quite Honda, and the gas mileage
definitely isn't.
Today, I'm still glad I did, BUT... relying on the laudable "Buy
American" impulse is not enough with so many really high-quality cheap
cars coming in from South Korea and Japan.)