[Publius6961]

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

"The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.

This should be embarrassing as well as sad.
If this doesn't conclusively illustrate a point, nothing will.

Substituting the intimidation and thuggery of "unionism" for the utility of a good education in the quest of a "living wage" is a strategically losing approach.

[anniegetyourgun]

Amen.

[mewzilla]

Somehow I think this was about more than illiteracy.