The actual salary paid to Ford/Chrysler/GM workers is not much different from that paid to Toyota/Honda workers in the US.
Are you sure? That doesn't match my understanding at all -- I thought there was an average of about $10/hour difference, which is a considerable margin.
No question that there are other important issues (even GM doesn't defend its ridiculous number of marques), but I do think the union is a major component of the problem.
OTOH, who owns Chrysler *is* a red herring: it makes very little difference to any of the relevant questions here. The difference between private and "public" ownership doesn't matter much on either the moral or practical level...
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Date: 2008-12-13 05:31 pm (UTC)Are you sure? That doesn't match my understanding at all -- I thought there was an average of about $10/hour difference, which is a considerable margin.
No question that there are other important issues (even GM doesn't defend its ridiculous number of marques), but I do think the union is a major component of the problem.
OTOH, who owns Chrysler *is* a red herring: it makes very little difference to any of the relevant questions here. The difference between private and "public" ownership doesn't matter much on either the moral or practical level...