Rick S.

Is Anything Worth Owning in the Auto Industry?

Hershey: You have to keep your anti-union attacks straight. In the building trades--craft unions--you have to have an electrical union member to electrical work. The industrial unions like UAW were organized to prevent that sort of silliness from happening. Everyone working in a factory organized by an industrial union belongs to the same union. So in your example, in a UAW plant it would be a UAW member that changed the light bulbs.

I note that in explaining the downfall of American auto makers you neglect to mention the fact that they keep building cars and trucks that fewer and fewer people want to buy. Do you think that might have something to do with their current problems? Or how about the greedy top brass who keep upping their salaries and perks to new levels? Naah. It's the union's fault.