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To: tejek who wrote (541006)	1/5/2010 4:02:40 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575371

Ted, > You have an employee.....he's not doing his job......whose your boss going to blame.....you or the employee. In the normal world, the buck stops with the manager, not the employee. Imagine if the manager can't fire the employee. There goes your analogy right out the window ... Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (541006)	1/5/2010 5:51:16 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575371

>Frankly, the level of incompetency must have been pretty high at GM for them to sign union contracts that made it difficult for them to make money That's not it. When they started signing them, they never anticipated having to compete with companies that don't have the same types of contracts. But over the last thirty years, aside from the Japanese/German/Korean automakers getting better and having the benefit of government-insured healthcare in their own countries, we've allowed those same companies to open plants here where they have no legacy benefit burden and in places like the South where unions were weak. -Z