[henkster]

In Cornelius Ryan’s “The Last Battle,” he interviewed one of the slave labor workers at a factory in Spandau. The guy was making alternators for panzers. He could easily have turned out 50 in a day, but usually only turned out four, and they were defective. I would imagine most of the slave workers were doing the same.

One of my college roommates got a summer job assembling truck doors at the AM General plant in South Bend. He could easily turn out 40 in a day, but only did that once. That was when the union shop steward told him he was a “rate buster” and made them all look bad. My roomie was told in no uncertain terms that the norm was ten...and only ten.

So apparently the American automobile industry took too many notes from the Germans.

[colorado tanker]

I have heard similar stories just about my whole life from people who worked in union shops in lots of different industries. Union featherbedding leading to unprofitable businesses or bankrupt businesses was one big reason why my dad broke with his Democrat family and became a Republican as a young man.

My dad and a younger brother were the first in their family to go to college and became Republicans. The two brothers who didn't go to college stayed Democrats.