CharleyHustle
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So, who was doing the math? The hourly employees? That's like saying the 7-11 went out of business because the part time clerk was a jerk.
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So, who was doing the math? The hourly employees? That's like saying the 7-11 went out of business because the part time clerk was a jerk.
MrFedEx
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The math is that the management of the Big 3 were highly dysfunctional, and insisted on continuing to produce inferior products while handsomely rewarding themselves for their continued incompetence. Were there some highly compensated union workers that contributed to higher per-unit costs..yes, there were. And the renegotiated union contracts reflect that. It's been said that the next big hurdle for the Big 3 is when the current UAW contract expires and workers expect to share in the windfall...as they should.
When GM was reorganized, the biggest problem was dismantling the obtuse, multi-layered management bureaucracy. "Government Motors" directly reflects the restructuring of GM management into the 21st century, and it has been an incredible success story. At Chrysler, this was accomplished by Fiat taking a controlling share. Ford had already hired Alan Mulally away from Boeing, and he did essentially the same thing at the Blue Oval.
Management, no matter how incompetent they are, will almost always attempt to foist the blame onto labor. FedEx is the perfect example of an incredibly mismanaged company that only stays competitive with UPS because it has substantial organizational advantages, namely the RLA at Express which is basically anti-union Kryptonite, and the Ground scam, which provides Fred S with labor at about one-third the cost of a UPS driver.
