Comments on: UAW vs. Chrysler: friends at last! http://www.embracingchaos.com/2009/05/uaw-vs-chrysler-friends-at-last.html Analysis of Trends in Technology, Business, Society Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hazel Ferriss http://www.embracingchaos.com/2009/05/uaw-vs-chrysler-friends-at-last.html/comment-page-1#comment-213 Hazel Ferriss Wed, 20 May 2009 10:06:25 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2009/05/uaw-vs-chrysler-friends-at-last.html#comment-213 <p>Your argument posits high costs of labor as a causative factor in favoring the production of large, low-efficiency vehicles. But Japan has costs of labor, too. The cost of living is high there, but blue-collar workers serve as primary wage-earners for middle-class families. Yet they've been making small, efficient vehicles. Why?</p> <p>The UAW's 55% ownership is an unexpected twist on Marx's "bloodless revolution", no?</p> Your argument posits high costs of labor as a causative factor in favoring the production of large, low-efficiency vehicles. But Japan has costs of labor, too. The cost of living is high there, but blue-collar workers serve as primary wage-earners for middle-class families. Yet they've been making small, efficient vehicles. Why?

The UAW's 55% ownership is an unexpected twist on Marx's "bloodless revolution", no?

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