There is nothing wrong with American workers until the UAW or any union gets into an American factory. Once the UAW gets in it goes to sh*t. Japanese and German workers want their car company to succeed. The UAW wants to bleed the car company to death.
Deming was a champion of the worker! One of the basic tenets of his philosophy is that Management is ultimately responsible for quality, not the worker. Workers (mostly) do as they are trained to do. It's up to management to make sure that the procedures they are trained to do are the right ones. If they are not following procedures, they should either be retrained or replaced. Again, it's all on management.
Of course, the unions have thrown a wrench into the process, making the replacement of non-performing workers extremely difficult. If unions really cared about their workers and their reputations, they would ADORE Deming!