noffke3000

Three Reasons for Sirius Aggravation

I used to work in the Automotive Industry writing software for electronics. Most of those components are engineered here, but are shipped elsewhere to be built...it's just cheaper...and the gap is so big because of the unions. We had a plant at our engineering facility in alabama, new non-union hires made $11/hour whereas the union workers made $30-40/hour. The UAW is only one problem that US companies have. The japanese enter a long term partnership with its suppliers...whereas the american autos tend to try to squeeze every penny out of its suppliers...this method over time gives you a bunch of cheap components made by multiple suppliers that know nothing about the overall architecture of the car....I feel conflicted with the bailout because of my position in sirius...but on the other hand I think the best thing that could happen to these companies is a bankruptcy and restructuring...and shedding themselves of the UAW.