История в тему:
A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American company (Ford) decided to
have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and
hard to reach their peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate
the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior
management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person
steering,while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person
rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a
consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second
opinion.

They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

продолжение...
Not sure of how to utilize that infor mation, but wanting to prevent
another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure
was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering
superintendents, and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1
person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called
the' Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners, and
free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new
paddles,canoes, and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices
and bonuses.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles.


Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor
performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and
canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was
distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's
racing team was out-sourced to India.


Sadly, The End.

Here's something else to think about:

Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of
the US, claiming they can't make money paying American wages.


TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US. The last quarter's results:


TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.


Ford folks are still scratching their heads.


IF THIS WEREN'T TRUE, IT MIGHT BE FUNNY.

hahahah , Sereza ! cool story

Ford pokupil Jaguar v 1994 za 6 billionov , a sejchas prodal' za 2 billiona indicam (TATA).... oni proizvodjat samij malen'kij avtomobil, NANO,,, naverno sejchas oni iz JAGUAR budut delat' piko (-12) model' ....
PICO JAGUAR.... kazdomu po karmannomu jaguaru,,,,!!!! napominaet SOVOK

To add to Sergei Shenogin's story - If I am not mistaken all Toyota plants are non union.
(Y)
Have you ever worked in the Union manufacturing facility?

Терпеть не могу Unions. Они плодят бездельников. Вместо того чтоб разбиратся, если какая-то проблема безопасности на рабочих местах, произвол менеджера, и т. д., они защищают бездельников. Это из личного опыта, так как проработал на гос. (штатной) работе почти 9.5 лет (уже там не работаю). Столько за это время я повидал бездельников которых никто не мог уволить - не передать!!! (N) 8oI А все из-за Union (N) 8oI
Вначале Union движения у них был смысл (помогали рабочим в 30-е годы, в частности), а сейчас это защита для бездельников!

Well described Mixail,
today they hurt workers more then help and forcing jobs to go overseas.
First hand experience of being a manager in Union facility.

Terrible ! Terrible unions! For instance Writers guild went on strike over something completely absurd - getting paid for their work distributed over internet. How dare they wanting to get paid for their work. (md)

Slava (@$%$% #$^ %$^^ just for you (lo)), but you are naive to think that work would not go overseas if there were no unions. I mean yea - our computer geek union forced tech jobs to go overseas? ! (sarcasm)