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To: steve harris who wrote (437495)	12/1/2008 10:25:01 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

Yeah, nobody would ever convince me that the Big 3's QC problems are anything other than a union problem. Overpaid workers who don't want to be there in the first place really don't do good work, and certainly not as good as industrial robots which love their work.

To: steve harris who wrote (437495)	12/10/2008 7:02:40 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574005

more on Saturn being destroyed by what is wrong at GM, of course CNN doesn't mention the original employee agreement was replaced by the standard UAW contract in 2004 cnn.com Saturn was conceived in the early 1980s as a separate-standing division of GM, with then-unheard-of features: • an innovative new plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee; • a separate agreement with the United Auto Workers that embraced more teamwork between union and management; • the use of plastics instead of metal for many body parts; • and a highly personalized consumer experience, including no-haggle buying and "Homecomings," a sort of family reunion for Saturn owners at the Spring Hill campus. The first Saturn came off the Spring Hill assembly line on July 30, 1990. Unfortunately, Kat Koonce said, GM has abandoned what made Saturn different. The cars are now made of metal, and the models all have twins in other GM divisions. Even the original Spring Hill factory has been converted to build Chevrolets instead of Saturns; the Saturn VUE is built in Mexico.