[Mr. Brightside]

Too bad we can't have the good ol' days when auto workers could make triple the average manufacturing wage, while only working half days.

You remember the good ol' days when there were beds set up in the factory floors so that "WINOs" (workers in name only) could sleep for the last 4-5 hours of their shift because they had already satisfied their artificially low quota.

Yeah, the good ol' days when WINOs would go to their boss and ask to get laid off for the summer so they could get work done around the house and still get paid via unemployment benefits.

Hard to believe that any automaker would want to send jobs overseas with loyal workers like that!

[claudiustg]

---You remember the good ol' days when there were beds set up in the factory floors so that "WINOs"---

It's true! When I worked at Ford, there were parts bins in strategic locations where the hard core drunks that were on janitorial could go and to catch up on their drinking and catch some winks. One guy, who suffered brain damage in a work accident, just stood in one area with a mop all day.

It was common to bring hookers in the back of campers into the parking lot, and there was some major drinking and gambling going on.

I worked there 3 1/2 years and was laid off with 90% pay, all three years, for periods of 4-5 months. I completed 3 semesters of college that way, but when we worked it was 10 hours a day 6 days a week. Once I was working 7 days a week: 5 days @ 12 hours each, Saturday for 10 hours, and Sunday for 8. That's a lot of overtime!