Posted by Spook on February 12, 2011 at 08:53:14 from (68.73.57.8):
In Reply to: OT/kinda early posted by gun guru on February 12, 2011 at 08:18:26:
I think the thing about workers was more workers qutting. They used to pay retention bonuses @30,60 & 90 days. A lot of folks got hired, and the work was really hard, noisy and dirty. We had guys go to lunch the 1st day and not come back. The new guys, having no seniorty, got the worst jobs. If you had family or friends that worked there, they would advise you to stick it out, it would get better. This was before a lot of the OSHA and ergonomic stuff came out. Also before robots. I saw guys spotwelding car bodies at Chrysler, wrestling a huge spotwelder around, it was suspended from the ceiling. Terrible job, had all kinds of protective gear on, even in very hot weather. Then we replaced that with a Unimate robot that did a much better job, faster. Automation eliminated a lot of jobs. A engine block line that I worked on in the early 80's had 105 production workers to make 1600 blocks / day. In the oughts, that production level was done by 16 guys. Thats why hiring basically stopped in the 80's. When I started at GM in 79, the machining lines looked like something out of an old movie, a worker every 5 feet. The last line I worked on, the parts were unloaded from a pallet by robot, machined, inspected, and sent to the assembly line without ever being touched by a worker. Basically, every year we had fewer employees, but the same production level.
As far as the too big to fail, deregulation starting in the 80's changed everything.
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