mrstickball said:
Toyota wants $2 billion in loans from Japan vs. GM wanting $2 billion per month. Pretty large difference, no? And yes, the automakers were supposed to handle all of that. They failed. So did the unions for asking for too much, and striking when they couldn't get their way. Auto employees are some of the laziest, most useless workers in America, and the UAW got them into a very cushy position using their brokering power(s). Because of that, the auto companies should file for Chapter 11, re-organize with new employees, and go forward, rather than the Big 3 keeping employees that are just too overpaid vs. the foreign rivals. That's not to say that UAW workers are the only issue. It's the Big 3's fault for making inefficient, unreliable, bad cars year after year, while foreign rivals kept doing better. Their plants are also a mess in functionality. Why is it that GM, Ford and the rest can make money overseas, and lose so much here in the US? |
That was true in the 80's.
If you've ever been to a modern car plant though... you'd see there are very few lazy workers there anymore.
The problems aren't with the workers... it's with the Management. They run bad parts that they know can't be used for anything, and do all sorts of other usless moves to keep production up even when it's on scrap because you get judged on how many parts you stamp... not how many parts are actually usefull.
The Machines in car plants are constantlly running there is little chance to be lazy since the machines are all automated now. The lazy workers ended when they got rid of the button presses and made them all modernized.
An example to how it works now would be... say you Askuma and I are working on a press...
and one of us notices a part has a divit or a bend or something we know won't run.
You'll hit the light to bring your sectional guy. Tell him the problem.... he'll call the supervisor. The supervisor wil come over... look at the parts. Tell you to keep running them anyway, have the lift driver take it over to "repairs" where it will just sit until it's sent to scrap.
Then once your projected number of parts is stamped, they'll switch dyes and have the dymakers fix the dye.
Rather then what would make sense.... switching the dye immediatly and/or fixing said dye in the machine while the team gets shifted over to an empty machine.
The factories do a lot of useless work because the supervisors feel the need to stand out since they can be fired rather eaisly otherwise.
