[darkpuppet]

You can group me with the people that dislike unions.. but to be honest, I'm not sure the unions are Ford's biggest problem. My biggest grief with unions is that you get skilled workers (like OAC and Meford), and unions actually hold them back (to an extent), and the mediocre workers profit.

And union interests don't tend to align with the business interests. .. which was good for a time, but nowadays, unions can't really offer significantly more protection for it's workers than are available without a union.

I think to a point, that further hurts the good employees, because they aren't seen as contributing individuals in all aspects of work to the company they work for. They are pooled along with the union (which to business is a dirty word).

That being said, Ford's got bigger issues. A sever lack of foresight being one of them. The execs seem to have put on their horse blinders and missed all of the changes taking place around them. Their only choice now IS to scale back until factories are back to 100% capacity rather than the paltry 70-80% some of them have been pulling...

Ford's losing money because they're not selling vehicles... they need to become profitable again, and for the time being, I think they're going to continue cutting until the losses are stemmed. Only then can they concentrate on rebuilding..