- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Does anyone believe that if the Big 3 unions agreed to reduce the hourly rate by 50%, give up most of their health care and other benefits, the result would be better designed, more environmentally friendly and less expensive cars? In reality, it would mean even higher executive compensation and the increase in profit margins would be used to try and make make the stock more desirable and priced higher. The philosophy of the Big 3 for many years now has been to build the most poorly, therefore cheaply designed and manufactured cars that could get away with and sell them to the dumb asses too lazy to do their own research and comparison. Toyota is doing so well not because Toyota workers work for less pay and benefit, but because Toyota and other Japanese and European automobile makers have invested heavily in R&D and polluting reducing technologies and make safer, less polluting and far more sophisticated cars.
