Re: Ford and the Economy (RE: India - wave of the future?)

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"Bruce Byfield" <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote in message
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> Quoting eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com:
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> > I've seen this statement before. I also remember a TV documentary
claiming
> > that the reason Ford paid so much was precisely so his workers could
> > afford his products.
>
> Actually, that's putting a generous face on it. One strong motivation was
to
> keep the unions out. Companies are still doing that today.
>
Doing what? Paying high wages and providing good work conditions so that
unions are not necessary?

(Well, they were. Not anymore.)

Interesting how I can be generally pro-union, yet word in a trade (TW) and
in a field (high-tech) that has very few unions organizing its workers.
Interesting too how the pay in this trade and this field goes up and down
according to free-market swings, yet union wages generally go in just one
direction. From a societal standpoint, which is better? (Rhetoric question,
because the answer would stray too far from the list topic.)

I know the National Writers' Union seeks to organize workers in the TW
field. I've never seen such organization anywhere I've worked.

Chuck Martin