Here’s a much simpler plan:
Require the foreign makers to leave one wheel off each car they build. That will boost sales for Detroit.
My brother-in-law, who worked for GM for 25 years, said the same thing. He said that if the Big 3 couldn’t get the unions off of their backs, they’d accept leveling the playing field by going in the other direction, namely, hanging the UAW around Toyota and Honda’s necks. And, of course, the UAW would be all for it.
He was white collar, and said the unions were so oppressive that he couldn’t empty his own wastebasket without running afoul of someone complaining about work rules.
Captain! There’s a passenger overboard....he’s drowning!
THROW THE OTHERS OVERBOARD IMMEDIATELY!
Sociology is a joke of a discipline, and a pseudo-profession.
Sociologists are just people who otherwise would be unemployable because they don’t know sh*t about how the real world operates.
Every college and university should shut down their sociology programs and fire all the faculty. Think of the money they’d save for more important things...like winning sports teams ;-)
If the "big three" carmakers cut back production (or shut down), then there will be an increase in sales of vehicles made by other auto-makers.
If the non-"big-three" auto makers increase sales, then they will need to hire more employees to make and sell more cars.
Working hard to make us all one big union!
The Japanese would never consent to the Unionizing of Toyota. They would close every plant in the USA and move
those plants to Mexico.
Result: Fewer jobs in the USA.
I bet he wears elbow patches, unkempt hair, nerdy glasses, Hushpuppies, an unironed shirt, and has a beard......oh wai...................
I don't have a copy of his book(s), but I'd suggest you read between the lines on this particular piece vis a vis Toyota.
At the same time I couldn't find much he's said about how the UAW failed to protect the workers at International Harvester as that company, under weak, even criminally ignorant, management ran headlong into serious disinvestment and then bankruptcy at the hands of its debtors (dealers who offloaded their debts to the main IH company by simply not paying their bills for delivered trucks and other motor vehicles and farm equipment).
What Cutler is saying here appears to be that the Big Three are dead unless we kill off the leading automobile manufacturer, Toyota!
Now there’s a good way to lose a few hundred thousand more jobs - run Toyota, Honda, and Kia out of the US. This man’s an idiot.
IOW, kill the other guy’s goat.
Should read, "Socialist Prof's Solution To Detroit Meltdown: Unionize Toyota!"
this shows you how much a sociology professor knows about labor economics - not much. It isn’t union versus non-union per se that makes the difference between the Big 3 U.S. auto makers and foreign auto makers producing cars inside the U.S. It is the age of the workforce and how many retirees depend on the food chain of the sales of cars for their medical and retirement benefits. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Saturn have relatively young work forces with few retirees. So much for professors.
Why stop there? We should force them to:
There, now we are all equal. Isn't socialism wonderful? We're all winners just for competing!