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plumber. (Well, it may not be that bad, but people tell stories like this all the time.) In come the Japanese companies, which make excellent


vehicles, pay the same wage rates as the BigThree auto compa- nies, but are more conservative in their benefits and liberal in theirwork rules.Their cars are great, their employees are happy, and they are profitable.And they are built right here in theU.S.. There was a time, 70 years ago, that working conditions in


factories weren’t the best. Unions sprang up (can you say Nor- ma Rae?) and workers’rights were protected. Businesses today seem to have learned their lesson. The adversarial relation- ships between worker and management seem to me to be a tad out of date. This childish notion that people who don’t buy cars made


by a certain company need to be pilloried in the town square, or made to park down the road, is absurd. It is a philosophy of the playground, of bullies that have never grown up. It would seem to me that if you can’t convince someone,


with intelligent reasoning and adult discussions, that it’s in their best interest to buy a product from the company that employs them, then you have already lost. Meanwhile, a Kansas City Business Journal reporter was


kicked out of a UAW parking lot in mid-July while covering a signing ceremony, headed by the governor, for the Missouri Automotive Manufacturing Jobs Act. The reason for the ejec- tion – he was driving aToyota.


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