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But in this country and with this specific union, management is evil. The union takes the position that unless they can control things, they spin it as the management ignores the workers which is not true at all.

Once the management used to listen to the workers and it was the worker's representative who told managment not to ask them for ideas.

Ford instituted a reward system where if the workers came up with a cost savings idea or an improvement to the product, they would get rewarded - sometimes it was the percentage of the savings and other times it was a piece of the product profit. A few made really good money off their Ideas but that was really the real problem, a few made money off of it, not everyone. So some of the many complained about it to the UAW, who demanded that Ford stop the program and figure out a way where everyone shares the reward, Ford said **** you and pulled the program completely.

The funny thing is we look at the history of the auto companies and how bad it was but for some reason Ford used this same exact program back in the late 30's with success and in 1952 model year put it back in place with a great amount of success but this last time, the UAW screwed it up.

This was being started at GM, with Hydramatic in Warren and the UAW killed it at conception.