Union management stupidity with Japanese plants equals Big Three management stupidity
Jonathan Cutler asks an elementary question — why didn’t the United Auto Workers unionize the Japanese auto plants built here in the U.S.?
The normal response is one of two things — people say it’s because the U.S. plants are all in right-to-work states or because Japanese carmakers are strongly anti-union.
To which Cutler replies:
• Japanese plants in Japan are unionized, under the Japanese Automobile Workers Confederation;
• Honda’s first U.S. plant was the one it still has at Marysville, Ohio;
• The UAW had plenty of contacts with the Japanese union;
• UAW President Douglas Fraser invited the Japanese to come build here.
Read the full story, then scratch your head at the stupidity of the UAW.
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