"CardsFan" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Further down the thread, others are hollering about GM mistakes back
> in the 60s and 70s when the car market wasn't global. GM is
> actually doing fairly well outside of North America.
>
> If you were running GM, what would you do? Just remember this -
> money runs the game.
>
> My best,
>
> AJM
>
Good points, both the union and the top brass could use some common
sense, (whatever that might be). I've been on both sides of the fence
but not far enough to get to the multi-million dollar wages and
bonuses. Could I have resisted making millions a year, most likely not
if I were in the American automotive cliché of that era. I remember
the aura that came into the Dearborn Inn one morning when the brass
from Ford came in, which at the time included Iacoca. Most of the
table servers nearly shit themselves to be noticed, sucking up for a
big tip. As you point out the mentality is still there for the mister
bigs of the automotive companies.
Early in my working career I had to join the union and was never in
one again after that job. My goal in life was to do the best job I
could at what ever I was attempting to undertake. Way to many of the
unions abused their position to prove they had any kind of control
over their employment. Be that as it may it's not what I was referring
to by squeezing the promised benefits from those that they can.
What I'm referring to is when you start a program or a job you should
be honorable and fulfill your commitment. That has at times cost me
and humbled me but was never compromised. What we have now is the
government stepping in and backing retirement funds and letting the
companies off the hook allowing them to further bloat their salaries
and bonuses. Just as they are sneaking out of the promise they made
such as Social Security while inflating their own salaries and perks.
Your best point is that "money runs the game", and I agree, what we
need is a government that is for the people, by the people, where did
I hear that before? Somewhere we lost that and have one that is for
the money, by the money, why should industry be any different?
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