[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by charles bledsoe

Have relations gotten any better between GM management and the line workers? I never relized that so much turmoil existed back then.

I think so; the folks in Ft Wayne, Janesville, Mishawaka, Detroit-Hamtramck, Silao, Oshawa - all seem(ed) to go out of their way to make sure things get done right and have been very kind to me.

There are various degrees of union "militancy" across the different plants, as though they each have their own personality. I thought the book made it seem like the Norwood employees were a bunch of malcontents (perhaps more than they really were). My alma mater - Chevrolet Flint Assembly - was a very militant plant.

I will say this: if there is ever even a rumor of a strike....it's already over. They are going out; you can count on it. It doesn't take much motivation at all for the UAW to shut a plant down and the workers walk out.

K