sealybobo
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- Jun 5, 2008
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Ive worked with Unions and they milk the living hell out of jobs. You have to be reasonable and they went TOO FAR STICKING IT TO THE MAN.
I know. My dad worked at Ford. Those losers/idiots didn't do themselves any favors. Truth is, I don't thnk they were worth what they were being paid either. It's just that America was great when they were making that kind of money. We see what America turned into when we stopped paying so many uneducated blue collar factory rats so well.
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Opinion | Capitalism is failing the white working class. And the results are deadly.
The astronomical costs of health care are draining jobs, hope and opportunity from working-class Americans.
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They could have told the unions "look, you can't keep behaving this way. If you continue, you're going to force us to leave" "you MUST let us fire bad employees." And remember when they didn't have jobs for them, they sat them in a room for 8 hours a day and paid them 90% of their pay? That was too much to ask a company.
But don't forget to google Ford record profits and profit sharing 1999, 98,97,96, etc. Things were great till the Bush 2000's. He was sending all those great paying jobs overseas. So the middle class just kept getting worse and worse and worse. I believe his "good" economy was in hospitality industry which doesn't make up for good paying manufacturing jobs. Not even close.