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Devils'Advocate · 02-18-2009, 05:30 PM

Actually, no. Watterson was condemning upper management, not the unions. It's the CEOs that want to maximize profit by avoiding environmental and health laws, not unions. It's CEOs that want to cut expenses to provide crap product/service to the consumers (ever try to reach an agent through 1-888-ROGERS1?).

The difference between unionized shops and non-unionized shops isn't that great in terms of per hour salaries, but there are far more benefits for the unionized workers. I think the US car companies are suffering more because of short-sighted CEOs who didn't put nearly as much resources into R&D like the Asian companies have. A bailout won't help the US car companies produce better cars.

02-18-2009, 05:30 PM	#43
Devils'Advocate #1 Goaltender Join Date: Jul 2005 Exp:	Actually, no. Watterson was condemning upper management, not the unions. It's the CEOs that want to maximize profit by avoiding environmental and health laws, not unions. It's CEOs that want to cut expenses to provide crap product/service to the consumers (ever try to reach an agent through 1-888-ROGERS1?). The difference between unionized shops and non-unionized shops isn't that great in terms of per hour salaries, but there are far more benefits for the unionized workers. I think the US car companies are suffering more because of short-sighted CEOs who didn't put nearly as much resources into R&D like the Asian companies have. A bailout won't help the US car companies produce better cars. Last edited by Devils'Advocate; 02-18-2009 at 05:33 PM.