Even if a deal for a $15-billion to $17-billion preliminary bailout comes together this weekend to keep carmakers afloat into 2009, they will continue to be dogged by their most significant competitive disadvantage: a high-priced, unionized workforce. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
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The article points out what may be a failure of vision of auto worker unions in not prioritizing efforts to unionize workers in auto plants established by foreign auto manufacturers.
Cutler is an excellent writer, but being an academic, I wonder how he would have graded the piece had a student presented it. Opinion writers are, by nature, speculative: Could've, should've, would 've causes us to go beyond the facts of a story. But Cutler's argument — that the UAW didn't take advantage of its relationship with its Japanese counterparts — remains unsubstantiated. He offers no quotes or references to previous publications to show that Shoigi DIDN'T use his ... More »
I share Cutler's remorse that the transplanted factories were not union organized. But unfortunately, it was bad timing. Reagan Democrats were ... More »
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