[The Other Harry]

I'll take some exceptions here:

...the unit that pulls the trailer or trailers down the road is not a truck, it is a tractor; a unit that is not complete without a trailer. [CF] then started a new company, to manufacture tractors for them.

Methinks it was the trailers, not the tractors, that CF started building. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

Unions tend to create a wall of distrust between management and labor;

Management does this also. This sword cuts both ways.

IMO, if labor and management work in opposition to each other, then everybody loses. Sooner or later.

[Spacetrucker]

You need to research your comments more thoroughly. CF started the company "FREIGHTLINER" - a TRACTOR-producing manufacturer.

[pt17]

Management does this (i.e., create a wall of distrust between labor and management) also.

Good management doesn't. Good managers know they exist to help and serve the people who work with/for them. Good managers understand that their success is inexorably linked to that of their workers. IMHO, good managers are also those who can and will also do the work their subordinates do. This is to say, "If you can't do it, you probably shouldn't be managing it.

This sword cuts both ways

Yes it does.

[cksharks]

If you read it carefully he said the distrust goes both ways.

[logic101.net]

CF built a company called Freightliner; I work for a spin-off company of CF. My company was created as a result of the sale of Freightliner (which builds tractors) in the 1980's. CF had too much cash on hand and had to get rid of it or risk a hostile take-over. They started another new and unique company. They were forced to sell this non-union branch off later at the union's insistance. The union was afraid that CF would begin to shift "union freight" to the non-union side. Oddly enough; had they not sold us they would probably still be in business.

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