How Germany builds more cars than US while paying twice a much to workers!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. While I won't argue with the central premise that...

our system sucks for the workers while theirs is pretty good, it has to be noted that BMW, Mercedes and Porsche don't sell cheap cars. Volkswagen makes a lot of its cheap cars in eastern Europe and has Audi to make the big bucks st home.

So, they can pay twice as much when the product sells for much more than twice as much.

Having said that, it is true that historically our labor relations have been far too adversarial. Japan and Germany are both culturally oriented toward cooperation and get a huge advantage from that. We are more like the British, where every little thing is a major battle-- and look where their auto business went.

If fault must be assigned I suppose it's with the bosses, since they called the shots and refused to talk until forced. But, we are far past the point where assigning blame accomplishes anything-- what to do about it is the big question.