<VV> Interesting Article ... (no Corvair)

[FrankCB at aol.com]

        The fork lift driver in the article had his salary REDUCED to ONLY $ 
87,000 per year???  That's more than I ever made as an engineer!!!!  Of 
course, I never got overtime since for overtime purposes I was considered "part of 
management".  (But for bonus purposes I was merely an "employee")   No wonder 
our US automotive companies are losing out to foreign ones, even ones that have 
plants in the US.  And no wonder we're graduating only around 70,000 
engineers a year while India is graduating FIVE times as many (and they ALL speak 
English!!)   And China will soon be graduating TEN times as many as we do.
       Frank "worried about our future" Burkhard  

In a message dated 9/20/05 11:40:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
burkhard at rochester.rr.com writes:

> I wasn't going to join the "what is wrong with GM &the US auto 
> industry" fracas, as it's a topic that hits me a "bit close to home", 
> but here is an article worth reading that ran in the Detroit News this 
> past Sunday.
> 
> http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0509/19/A01-318432.htm
> 
> There is plenty of blame to be spread around, but if you read about the 
> "hardships" of the American autoworker herein, there are probably few of 
> you that won't be shaking your heads in bewilderment. Some of these guys 
> have been living in a dream world for decades. There are going to need 
> to be changes *thoughout*.
> 
> Jim Burkhard
> currently an automotive engineer....
>