re: #226 Dark_Falcon

True, but in both the US and UK the auto-workers unions went too far. The manufacturing plants became about the workers and not about the cars they built. Don’t get me wrong, companies should always do right by their employees and unions have a role in ensuring they do. But the UAW went way too far and stopped caring about the need for its works to do their jobs right and at a sane cost. Their refusal to consider those needs has helped cripple the Big 3.

It reminds me of what is going on with the Teamsters here. It was all about how much money they could get paid and how little work they had to do. In theory, that is what unions are supposed to do (at least the money part). But it gets to the point where labor costs balloon out of control.

Look at what is happening at McCormick Place. They are losing conventions left and right because it is too expensive to hold a show in Chicago. So, great, the forklift drivers make a ton of money, but there is less and less work to go around every year. (And this is coming from a former union forklift driver.)