Autoworkers earning less in U.S. happy to compete globally

[6 Shooter]

Werner, though, said she couldn't be happier.

"It's just an opportunity for me," said the 30-year-old, who installs seat-belt covers and dashboard parts on Chevrolet Sonic and Buick Verano cars at General Motor Co.'s factory in Orion Township. "It's a better life for my kids."

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[warren s]

The workers who assembled my last 5 GM cars were making $27 to $35 an hour.

I believed that it was the normal process to have to bring your car back to the dealer multiple times to "work out the bugs" in the first few months. I have been doing that for 20 years - until I bought a rice burner.


Maybe now the pay scale is more in line with the quality of the product they produce.

 

[catbert]

I have had to return to the dealer once for an assembly issue in the last ten years and 7 Chevys. Laying the old assembly quality of the US cars on the hourly workers is bogus. GM had the lines cranked up so fast that bad assembly was engineered into a car. Remember back when the lines couldn't be stopped for any reason by anyone other than the superintendent? Stripped bolts, missing pieces and other assembly issues that came up were not correctect because there was no time or personnel slack built in to fix them. Since that time, GM and the other automakers have built quality into their processes. It's just a shame that they had to lose all that business to the imports before both the companies and union woke up.

 

[warren s]

I have had to return to the dealer once for an assembly issue in the last ten years and 7 Chevys. Laying the old assembly quality of the US cars on the hourly workers is bogus. GM had the lines cranked up so fast that bad assembly was engineered into a car. Remember back when the lines couldn't be stopped for any reason by anyone other than the superintendent? Stripped bolts, missing pieces and other assembly issues that came up were not correctect because there was no time or personnel slack built in to fix them. Since that time, GM and the other automakers have built quality into their processes. It's just a shame that they had to lose all that business to the imports before both the companies and union woke up.

I envy your past experience with GM products and had I shared the same I would most likely still be a GM customer. I wonder how the Japs got the non union workers ( in US plants) to crank out so many copies and not be a quality disaster.

 

[6 Shooter]

Autoworkers earn less to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

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