Quote:Excellent points. During my studies I read quite a few articles on the downfall of Detroit. The lie that I've heard was that unions were at fault for the auto industry decline. But academic studies show management had a much more significant impact. Unions weren't the ones creating the dreck designs. Management decided the product, the workers just put the junk together, they had no say in the engineering and other facets to the production.

Exactly. As I mentioned, Germany. Their auto industry is successful and completely unionized. And again, the Detroit workers get blamed for the demise off the industry while no one bats an eyelash at the CEO, COO, et al compensation.

A Chevy Avalanche made in the USof A is the same price as one made in Mexico. One worker makes a good living standard wage and can afford the vehicle, while the underpaid southern working partner cannot. Yet the savings of that cheaper labor isn't passed on to the consumer. Funny. The truck made with unionized workers costing the same as the foreign non union workers.

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