It's a wonderful world. Business and labor working together for the good of everyone involved. Employees trying their best to be as valuable to the company as possible. Dogs and cats living in harmonious, wedded bliss. I have very little to add, all I ask is that you read this story at the Patriot Room. Then feel free to tell me how much you despise the United Auto Workers for destroying the auto industry in America. A small excerpt:
At Ford Motor Co.’s factory here [in Camaçari, Brazil] a group of Visteon Corp. workers connect the wiring in a dashboard module for a Ford EcoSport. Next to them, Lear Corp. employees are building seats for the same vehicle. A few feet away, Ford’s Diede Silva dos Santos applies trim to a Fiesta subcompact. She’s mastered seven jobs at the plant and is working on an eighth.
“If you do different jobs, it’s more interesting,” said Silva dos Santos, 24. “It gives me a chance to expand my knowledge. (It) makes me a more valuable employee, too, so that I will have a future here.”
All of them exemplify a different kind of worker in a different kind of plant for a Detroit automaker.
Did you get that? She wants to learn more, to make her a more valuable employee, so she has a future with the company. That is the voice of a woman who is going somewhere in life - on her merits. And it sure does exemplify a different kind of worker. When was the last time those words escaped the lips of a UAW member?
This state-of-the-art manufacturing complex in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia is not only the centerpiece of Ford’s Brazilian turnaround plan, it is also one of the most advanced automobile plants in the world. It is more automated than many of Ford’s U.S. factories, and leaner and more flexible than any other Ford facility. It can produce five different vehicle platforms at the same time and on the same line.
Ford sources said it is the sort of plant the company wants in the United States, were it not for the United Auto Workers, which has historically opposed such extensive supplier integration on the factory floor.
And that is why the plant is in Brazil, and not in Detroit, or Tennessee, or Kentucky.
Much, much more on this at the link, including a great video clip. I can't wait til these corrupt union-thug-bosses, who prevent American industry from being competitive worldwide, someday receive the justice they deserve for the damage done to the lives of so many decent, hard-working Americans who bought their socialist, workers-paradise propaganda.
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