I've already admitted that the "domestics" destroyed their viability by agreeing to past UAW demands that far exceeded gains in productivity. To compensate for vastly overpaid UAW workers, they underengineered and took content out - making their product inferior. Now, even with massive investment, they cannot undo the decay that decades of passive management did to their once viable brands.
I fully expect the UAW will have destroyed the "domestic" automakers w/in the next ten years. The market trends and demographics certainly point that way. They are Oldsmobile. But in destroying the host, the parasitic union won't have much of a home.
Thank goodness Linda is back on the job and the corrupt labor unions are her target:
Chavez Forms Group to Monitor Labor
Thursday, February 22, 2001
By Sharon Kehnemui
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WASHINGTON — "A nightmare doesn't always end when you wake up."
That's the warning to labor unions from Linda Chavez, President Bush's original choice for labor secretary, whose nomination was derailed by questions about an illegal alien who at one time resided in her home and a dogged effort by labor unions to kill her confirmation....
foxnews.com
...Investigating Labor
One area where the administration can do more, according to Chavez, is in prosecuting cases of illegal exchanges of cash between political parties and labor unions.
A recent example is the case against former Teamsters president Ron Carey. Carey was charged last month with seven counts of perjury and false statements relating to the funding of his 1996 re-election bid. The case is based on an alleged money funneling scheme with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), in which union money from the AFL was donated to Democratic political groups in exchange for DNC donor support for Carey. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who is investigating former President Clinton's 11th-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, is prosecuting the case against Carey.
The case "has not been pursued as aggressively as it should in the criminal justice system," Chavez said. "It will be very interesting to see what happens with the new Justice Department — whether Attorney General Ashcroft will make this a priority."
Chavez also suggested setting up a review system in the Department of Labor to make sure that programmatic monies given to unions by the department are not spent inappropriately.... |
