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Officially Official: Toyota debuts 8th generation Land Cruiser {Autoblog}
Sep 18th 2007 2:04PM U-G-L-Y and yo mamma dresses you funny. Geez, that's an ugly beast.
Frankfurt preview: VW to debut rear-engine city car {Autoblog}
Aug 2nd 2007 9:30AM When did VW decide it was a good idea to steal headlights from the Sebring?
And thus it begins: All domestics now in historic talks with UAW {Autoblog}
Jul 24th 2007 9:30AM The days of forktruck drivers making $100k annually are coming to an end, one way or the other.
It all boils down to supply and demand. There's a certain supply of labor with a given skill set and there's a certain demand for that same labor. Where the demand and supply curves intersect dictatest the equillibrium price for that labor.
The UAW has been able to keep that price artificially high for a long time, and good for them. However, times have changed.
Certainly management bears a lot of blame for designing ugly, low quality cars and keeping the bean counters in charge. That's going to have to change too.
In the mean time, the issue at hand is out of whack labor costs. Not just out of whack compared to China/India/Mexico, but out of whack compared to the majority of the U.S. workforce. Time to get with the program UAW.
