That’s how a union shop works. it’s not the young ambitious go getter that gets the advance to a better position, it’s the laziest slack @ss that has the most seniority.
Young new employee soon learn “the ropes” however, about a day after their probation is over.
This is why cars are increasingly more and more expensive, while the actual material content cost keeps going down.
Imports from Japan, Korea and China, (not so much Europe becaue they have the same union problems) have to be heavily duty taxed. Otherwize you could by them for $1200 or so for a brand new crap box equal or better than anything GM, Ford, Chrysler makes thats comparable.
Think how much money the Joe public could save and spend on other stuff if they didn’t have to take out a mortgage for a car every 5 years.
The Auto worker unions have been a leach on the American economy for decades now. Sucking more and more blood while getting fatter and fatter.
It’s time to salt them off.
NO BAIL OUT
Back in the mid-50s I was a linotype operator on the way up. My goal was to make $2 and hour (good money then) and set two galleys of straight matter in one hour with three or less typos. (One galley of straight matter type, like that in newspaper columns) was 21 inches long and about two inches wide. Working on a big daily newspaper seemed like job security.
I was working upstate New York with a guy who soon joined the union at the Newark Daily News. To get in the union, you had to meet that same two galley criteria. The first day on the job the guy starts pounding out two galleys an hour. The shop steward comes over to him raising Hell. "Whaddya tryin' to do? Put a fellow worker out of a job?" The guy found out REAL FAST that the new norm was ONE galley an hour.
I gave up any thought of a union job then and there and managed to stay away from them for 13 years. Finally had to buy my way in if I wanted a job in San Diego. In the year I was a member I worked at two places and was treated far worse than at any of the open shops. In 1967 I went into something called "computer programming" and built a lucrative life in a great environment - nice white collar threads, good-looking chicks, and NO unions.