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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (532748)	11/25/2009 4:51:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577591

Their cars were ugly, not innovative, poorly built with built in obsolescence and never met the needs of the marketplace. Not to an extreme degree, and not all of them. Some of them where quite good sellers, and some get good quality scores. But if your going to start with a cost disadvantage to each car, then your either charging more than your competitor, or you have to save the money somewhere, including things like quality control and R&D, or quality of materials, etc. All of which hurt the competitiveness of the cars. Also the more rigid work rules hurts the quality. It was hard to attract industry that would pay as well and compete for workers. Which is one of the reasons why the other industries didn't grow in the area when the car companies where strong and where increasing employment. But after they started to lay off people you had available labor. Why you insist on blaming the unions when ultimate control was with mgmt is beyond me. I don't absolve the management, even apart from the union issues they made some bad decisions, and they also can't be absolved for the biggest bad decisions they made, their dealings with the unions. But you seem to want to absolve the unions of all responsibility when the reality is they played a huge role. You also seem to want to absolve the poor business climate created by local and state government, but doing so is incorrect.