[ZX5focused]

the problem with windsor is that it is/was a one industry town. everyone here relies on the auto indsustry and when it kicks/kicked the bucket, it brings the whole town down.

Who is to blame?? everyone, windsor has never tried to market itself as a great place to invest money for a business/industry. it just rode the automotive gravy train.

most companies/indsutries will not touch windsor with a 10 foot pole due to CAW. They see it as more of hassle of dealing with the unions then jsut building or investing somewhere else and not having a union. (im not saying unions are a bad thing, we;ve had that debate many times, i am jsut stating a fact)

things are going to get alot worse here in windsor before they get better. luckily my noone in my family is working in the industry, but i have many friends whos parents or themselves are somehow connected and it isnt pretty.

another problem is some of these autoworkers were/are living well outside there means. the took the constant overtime and their decent wages and spent all of it. whether it was on a larger house that could barely afford or taking those trips to mexico every year. these people saved very little and are now getting hit very hard by what is happening.

Not all of the blame on this goes to the manufacturers either, as we have also discussed many times. it is jsut a really bad time where windsor keeps getting kicked while it is down.


Lets hope windsor can get through this and start to improve.