December 26, 2008
Motor City
Detroit must have a guardian angel. How else to explain being the beneficiary of Bush's one and only correct decision of the past eight years? Detroit, the car-makers, the unions — all woven into our national experience and we'd be much poorer without them. To get a feeling for some of the history I turned to Dr. Kevin Boyle, author most recently of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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Note how the foreign automakers are handling the recession. I suspect Detroit can't afford at this juncture to pay full salaries to temporarily redundant full-time workers. But did they do it when they were flush? In particular, the notion of job training if there's nothing else to do seems like a good one — both substantively in terms of productivity improvement, and less tangibly in terms of employee morale. If Detroit and the UAW don't do this, they should.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/business/23transplants.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1230314681-ep9u1tdW/gsVLuhOLIkJGw
Posted by: Werther | December 26, 2008 2:02 PM