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Originally Posted by freakshow
I don't get that feeling at all.. I don't think anyone is mad at the individual employees receiving pension, they're mad at the use of tax payer dollars to pay out those pensions. GM should have been left to be sold for parts.
If the pensions are in a crown corp, then again, I don't get the sense that anyone is mad at each individual, but they're mad at the unions and bureaucracy that allow for it to happen plus the fact that we seem to be powerless to let something as ridiculous as public pensions continue.
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There's a great book on this
https://www.amazon.ca/Crash-Course-A.../dp/0812980751
Chronicling the emergence,from Henry Ford and Dodge brothers, all the way to 2012 after the bailouts.
Outlines some of the horrible mismanagement, and completely insane deals brokered by the UAW. Especially from GM.
There's a really great chapter on Honda in it as well. Some of the practices they took when opening their auto plant in Ohio, the first Japanese plant to build cars in the US.
The COO fervently opposed the union. He knew the divisive nature of them. They ran that plant like a family. Unlike the US makers whose workers were kept completely segregated from the executives, The Honda execs and workers ate in the same lunchrooms, used the same washrooms, and wore the same clothes.
They listened to the workers input on improvements and rewarded it.
That type of relationship was unheard of amongst American makers. And never would have been possible with a union.
Always had love for Honda engineering. But after learning about the history of their company, and the way they ran it, it really renewed my admiration.
But anyways, excellent book. Literally couldn't put it down.