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Originally Posted by Homeslice
In most cases, the reason you had a bad experience with your car was due to sub-standard design, testing, and parts sourcing......Not because of assembly-line labor. IMO at least.
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I worked at a machine shop doing what we called "union proofing" when we did stuff directly for GM. We normally worked with their sub-contracters becuase we could work with them easier. I have 100s of examples and reasons why the UAW is fucking over GM.
The design is a result of UAW demands on HOW they can assemble the car. We had to design (though GM never put it in use) a bracket to hold up the hoods of those ugly ass vans they use to make due to no support beucase the radiator wasn't in. With the radiator out the corners of the hood would bend up and some monkey would beat it down at QA. THey didn't put the radiator in due to demands on how a worker would have to move around. By the way, I've seen tons of hoods come down the line in the wrong color. It goes to the back yard where they switch the hoods.
Parts sourcing can be put on the UAW also. GM has to put in shitty parts to make a profit becuase contrary to popular belief, a company is suppose to make money. I remember at the GM plant in Atlanta (before it thankfully closed) there was a room full of old timers. The room was in hte middle of the building with no windows. When the shift started the lights went out and they went to sleep for their shift (gotta sleep off that hangover somehow). When they come into work they're usually making OT in the $100s an hour. They can't get fired becuase they get full benefits AND a $300,000 severance package when fired (it benefits them to get fired). There were usually about 12 guys in the room at one time every single day. Basically GM has to pay those assholes and can't put in the nice stuff because a Malibu would cost as much as a Mercedez when it was over.
The GM Corvette plant in Kentucky is hte exception to the rule. They get the good workers of other plants and bring them up there. People tour the Corvette plant and you can't have hte typical UAW worker in their. People would just be staring at a guy staring back at them all day.
But regardless of who's fault, I wont' own an American Company car because the American workers they staff suck and I hope they all lose their jobs.