After securing large pay raises and improved benefits from the biggest U.S. automakers, the United Auto Workers union is moving to unionize Tesla, Honda, Toyota and others.
Cancer spreads, and the UAW is an aggressive cancer. However, I think Honda and Toyota are in a better position to fight the UAW in that they already have quite cushy jobs and their top executives are not constantly in scandals where they are milking the company for every penny its worth at the expense of the organization as a whole.
Its a lot easier sales pitch for unionization that the wrench turners need a 30% raise if the executives already making millions give themselves a 30% raise even when they are performing poorly, or like Ford suddenly say “oh yeah, BTW we have so much extra profit that we have $10 billion to buy out our stocks.”
Japanese CEOs and board members make good money, but not the insane amounts you often see in the West where its hundreds of times the average employee’s salary.
Cancer spreads, and the UAW is an aggressive cancer. However, I think Honda and Toyota are in a better position to fight the UAW in that they already have quite cushy jobs and their top executives are not constantly in scandals where they are milking the company for every penny its worth at the expense of the organization as a whole.
Its a lot easier sales pitch for unionization that the wrench turners need a 30% raise if the executives already making millions give themselves a 30% raise even when they are performing poorly, or like Ford suddenly say “oh yeah, BTW we have so much extra profit that we have $10 billion to buy out our stocks.”
Japanese CEOs and board members make good money, but not the insane amounts you often see in the West where its hundreds of times the average employee’s salary.
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