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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (49656)	7/29/2013 2:58:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

unions killed jobs in the North. No one could afford to build anything with union construction costs, believe me I was a commercial contractor from 1970 to 2005. The union guys would bytch why no one bult any more I told them it was because of you. I watched 8 union guys take 2 8 hour days to do what one of my guys did in an hour and I could do in 20 minutes that's 128 man hours vs one. who can afford that bullshit. one of the companies I contracted with built 10 'stores' one was in Michigan, heavy union town. They said it would take over 250 years to recoup the union construction costs for that one 'store' the unions killed jobs

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (49656)	7/29/2013 3:29:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

>> You may recall that he also changed his mind later in life and stated that Ford going union was a good thing. I don't know about that; I've never heard it. But if he said it, he was in the final throes of senility, because he fought unions nearly to his dying day; even after Edsel cut a deal with them in the early 40s, Henry wouldn't sign off on it for a very long time. I do not think there is ANY chance that Ford believed unions were good at any point. He may have said it was good Ford finally caved, because the employees were essentially walking out -- with GM and Chrysler having already gone union, he had little alternative. He recognized the corruption in the union business and wanted nothing to do with it.