# Telling it like it is - Auto Industry Bailout

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**Category:** SON240sx Automotive\
**Created:** [February 25, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/telling-it-like-it-is-auto-industry-bailout/122114 "2009-02-25T08:43:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![R\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/r_t/32/5529_2.png) [@R\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/R_T)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/telling-it-like-it-is-auto-industry-bailout/122114/19 "2009-03-01T18:29:30Z")

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> [@Oh my really bad polevault...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oh-my-really-bad-polevault/20488/4):
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> Amen…
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> “our factories have been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and laziest entitlement minded “laborers” without paying the price for these atrocities”
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> That is the BIGGEST difference between a Domestic auto plant and an “import” auto plant.
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> IE Toyota in Cambridge has NO UNION and I’ve never seen more content employee’s.

I have experience in a GM unionized auto plant and the non-union Toyota plant.  
Worker mentality is exactly the same. They are ‘entitled’ to sunday doubletime and benefits and free lunches. this and that. There are lazy people who take advantage of the system everywhere, not just in these ‘horrible’ union shops.

The difference with Toyota is the contract employees. People tend to work their asses off if they know they can be fired one day because their boss doesn’t like the way they cut their hair.

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