"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On 4 Sep 2006 10:24:51 -0700, wrote in
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It's ridiculous that an employer thinks they can arbitrarily change the
terms of employment without consulting the employees.


Absurd! You should work for an auto company. Over the past 20 or so
years white colar workers have lost COLA, vacation time, etc.

Personally, I believe auto workers were paid far in excess of the
skill they possessed. (How long did an auto worker have to attend
training before being considered skilled enough to demand top pay?)


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Larry,

FWIW, my late father was a 32-year veteran of GMs white collar world...

What you say is true so far as the blue collar rank and file UAW memebers
were/are concerned.

But, while the US automakers were busy bending over backwards to make the
people on the assembly lines happy, they were balancing the equation by
making the lower and middle management white collar positions take it in the
shorts.

Jay B