*nothing said below is in any way directed at anyone.
The UAW does nothing that inherently makes them 'bad'....At least not anymore. The cold hard fact is that United States/Canada labor will cost more than anywhere else. Our standard of living is just far and above China/Mexico, etc.
The UAW has nothing to do with that. To compound that...if you're CEO, and your first priority to cut costs is to slash UAW wages...you're an idiot:
Labor accounts for
less than 10% of a vehicle's cost. So even if you cut their wages 50%...you're going to save a massive 5% per vehicle? Care to calculate the pros v. cons of having an unhappy, dirt-paid workforce(quality anyone?) just to save ~750 bucks a vehicle? There are a host of other things that should be above that on your to-do list. Things like healthcare issues, retiree issues, dealership issues, corporate management and cost structure, materials used, quality gaps....
At this point, the Union is nothing more than a scape-goat to make comments like the one above...I mean Cutting their wages?
It's been done. They will get paid no more than any import brand worker here in the US. Cut them anymore and your getting into that slave labor thing mentioned....fun, huh?
