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{OT}Detroit's entitlement culture withers a bright, blue dream

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Fat Moe - 30 Apr 2009 14:16 GMT
""The No. 1 disadvantage to being in Detroit is labor costs," Dauch
says. "No. 2 is reliability."

Detroit has the highest absenteeism rate of any AAM facility. In Mexico,
Three Rivers, Indiana and elsewhere, absenteeism is barely a blip. Many
days, the Mexican plant -- also unionized -- has no workers absent.

But in Detroit, absenteeism runs at least twice as high, and on some
days it can approach nearly one-third of the workforce in parts of the
plant. Lines have been shut down because not enough employees show up."
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090430/OPINION03/904300325/1148/auto01/Detr
oit+s+entitlement+culture+withers+a+bright++blue+dream

bogusmailmark@yahoo.com - 30 Apr 2009 14:49 GMT
That's pretty insensitive of you.  Why should able-bodied, highly paid
people be forced to get out of bed and go to work when they don't feel
like it?

Rather than blaming the workers, who obviously have little reason to
go to work when they can instead lean on Uncle Sam, we should
apologize to all of them and use some of that stimulus money to
establish and heavily staff a new government office with a mission of
raising self esteem in the labor force.  Free breakfast at the plant
would be provided, of course, as well as comfortable, green-powered
buses with a culturally diverse staff of drivers to give them door-to-
door transportation.  Oh, and don't forget about free child care
(again, culturally diverse and religion-neutral which would tell the
kids all about the evils of the capitalist system and how to reduce
their CO2 output).

> ""The No. 1 disadvantage to being in Detroit is labor costs," Dauch
> says. "No. 2 is reliability."
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> days it can approach nearly one-third of the workforce in parts of the
> plant. Lines have been shut down because not enough employees show up."http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090430/OPINION03/904300325/1148/...
 
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