[1rudeboy]

That's not the problem, really. I jumped from the #4 (at the time, in terms of market share) steel fab company to the #1 steel fab company in the United States, back in the day . . . and the plant I moved to (the company had more than 1, obviously) produced more product with 1/3 of the workers than the plant I left. And the workers at the plant I moved to were Teamsters, while the ones I left were non-union.

I'd go drinking with (whatever shift it was) them after work, and their clothes were as clean as mine . . . this whole idea that the U.S. needs to return to the glory days of the Henry Ford empire (and dirty workers) is a pipe-dream. There are workers who get dirty, still, but not in all manufacturing plants.

[10Ring]

You’ve got it all wrong...we need to return to those glory days when 80% of the workforce was in agriculture. There is absolutely no reason why 2% today should do the work of 80% of yesteryear. Taking a bath once a week was pretty cool, too.

[Last Dakotan]

That's not the problem, really. I jumped from the #4 (at the time, in terms of market share) steel fab company to the #1 steel fab company in the United States...

Name of company please.