[ThreePuttinDude]

Libertyville, Illinois plant
My father was in the engineering department, going back
to when Frank G. Hough owned the company. That was pre-union
when the company had Christmas parties, summer events and picnics
for the employees and family's.

Mr. Hough sold his company to IH, and along with the sale came
the UAW. I had friends that were second generation Hough employees
and they told me that the final straw was when they went on
strike for 4 months over extra medical insurance.

The truckers that would come to pick up sold merchandise or drop off
at the plant actually got shot at on a regular basis. The old time engineers
and salary people would go out on the assembly line and put the machines
together just to meet orders that needed to be filled.

From what I saw first hand, it WAS the union that caused that mess.

[muawiyah]

Look, UAW is one thing, management is another. Management took the company's credit worthiness and put it on the line to pick up something like $4.5 billion worth of debt from the dealers. The company's networth at the time was actually less than that.

A minor recession knocked them right out of the park.

Any management worth its salt simply does not bankrupt the company on behalf of "dealers". You can always find somebody to sell your stuff.