Rick S.

Is Anything Worth Owning in the Auto Industry?

EMTerprises: The problem in Airport Security isn't unionization. It's (1) minimum wage pay, and (2) the resulting revolving-door work crew.

Whatta deal! Every week a new team to paw through your bags for bombs. As they say, you get what you pay for. In this case that's not very much.

Is Anything Worth Owning in the Auto Industry?

Hey Gumby. Swear off coffee for the rest of the day. And try to keep your thumb off the Publish icon.

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.