Who Is at Fault for the Decline of the Big Three?
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The so-called employee free choice act
The deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) strips workers of their right to a government supervised, private ballot vote and replaces it with a forced- unionization system, where workers must publicly declare their support for a union and publicly sign a binding contract without seeing the "fine print."After 51% sign up, the remaining 49% of workers never get a choice. They become unionized giving up to 2% or more of their wages to "protect the workers." This will ultimately strip workers of their right to privacy and exposes them to intimidation, deception, and coercion. This is an undemocratic power grab by special-interest union lobbyists it's an outrage! No wonder unions are pressuring Congressional candidates to pledge support for a forced unionization bill, union membership has declined from 20% to 7.5% in the last twenty five years.
If this bill passes it will hurt the American economy terribly I don't understand why people are not looking at the big three and not seeing a connection between the state of there finances and the fact that they are unionized. More companies will shut down and they won't want to open factories in the United States if they can't afford it. How will this help?
Speak it, brother!
Okay. I worked at GM. I saw what went on there. Unions are good for companies that do not have a oligopoly on a particular market. If a unionized company can compete with non union companies, awesome for them. But, GM, Ford and Chrysler have a oligopoly on the American auto industry. I know that the economy is bad but, if a company can not compete, do not prop them up, let them fall and let other companies come up and take their place. Their unions have got to change or, I will miss the Corvette and be pissed that we lost billions of dollars.
Nothing can stay the same
Folks, if you haven't noticed we are in a new century! Technological evolution and market forces are inevitable and unstoppable. We cannot run car companies OR unions like the 1930s, that's over! If you do, eventually the thing will fly apart because the difference between the 1930's thinking and the realities of the world around us today are becoming too great causing force and strain that will tear things apart. The only answer is that manufacturing must be re-invented for the 21st century world. That means massive use of technology, vastly different types of worker and fewer of them. I have a lot of trouble seeing how the dinosaurs, oops I mean unions even fit into the picture. Unions are not 21st century institutions and if you try to make it fit inevitably the thing will fly apart in self destruction and the shrapnel will take a lot of other people with it. If you try to fight the inherent forces of change everyone loses.
Regarding "Big Three"
Mr. Barones article was very enlightening. I have been against the bail-outs and now have more reasons for my opinoin. Also the comments in the blog are very interesting. It appears to me the best way would be to go through bankruptcy. I was 10 years old when the banks failed in '29. I learned some valuable lessons as a result.
Taylorism?
I think you better read that book again. Taylor was definitely interested in finding the one right way. But he was also interested in matching people to jobs- the one right man. Creating training programs and job advancement were also on his agenda. Taylor's humanistic ideas didn't get the same press as his machinistic propositions. It's incorrect to vilify Taylor. It was businesses use of only a select few of Taylor's ideas that caused the trouble.
Many reasons the Big 3 are having problems.
Yes, union rules make things difficult.
Yes, management has its share of dilberts who do dumb things.
But the biggest single issue is our own government!
GM did a commercial one time where it says that 40% of a $10,000 car was tax! That is a tariff of about 67%!!!
In my small company I did an analysis one year that showed 45% of the final cost of my product, assuming my suppliers had the same ratios, which means a tariff of 80% was imposed on my costs by taxes like unemployment tax, income tax, social security tax, property tax, etc.!!!
Back in 1963 a new car was $2,000 and a house was $10,000. Now that same car is $20,000 and the house is $150,000 in paper dollars, yet if I purchase them with real silver dollars, they are about the same price as in 1963, 2,000 and 10,000 silver dollars!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Our governnment is the problem! Reduce it in size and spending and we will figure out a way! Go to a pure straight sales tax, such as proposed at fairtax.org, and then it is a fair fight and then if American car makers screw up, so be it! But right now, the cost of government is putting them out of business and has been doing so for the last 40+ years!
