Famous song documents worker-management hostility.
Unfortunately…. the Big 3 Auto and their employees just don’t get along.
The Wall Street Journal covers how the American auto industry got to the brink of collapse while foreign auto companies thrived in the same environment. It all boils down to:
Japan’s car companies, and more recently the Germans and Koreans, gained a competitive advantage largely by forging an alliance with American workers.
I kid about an “executive wash” at my software company, but GM really has them:
I got glowing reports about the dawn of a new spirit of cooperation. Then I asked to visit the men’s room, and was stunned to see that there were two: one for hourly workers, and a separate one for management. I used the hourly men’s loo.
The end result is a set of employees that aren’t interested in helping the company:
Ford dispatched a team of welding experts to a factory to explore efficiency moves. The plant’s union leaders, fearing layoffs might result, refused to meet with the team, and the effort came to naught.
Greed, short-sightedness – by management AND employees go them here.
I don’t see anything other than massive reduction in costs that can help them.
And I DARN sure don’t want them to start getting access to my money via the Federal government.