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I’m not sure it’s accountants or engineers. Maybe now, but not a few decades ago.
As described in “Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line,” by Ben Hamper, it was the work force. I’ve no intent to paint with a broad brush, and I regret America’s General Motors going bankrupt, but we did it to ourselves. Drug use, getting your buddy to do your work (and his own) while you gambled or took a nap, and more, and good luck to GM if it tried to fire you.
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Rivethead was a great book. It did point out the adversarial relationship between labor and management cause a lot of these problems as well.
Toyota made cars in California for decades with UAW labor and made great cars there. Honda made great cars engineered in Ohio so it wasn’t the US engineers. The only group left to blame? Management.
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That is a broad brush. People died for the basic workplace safety, reasonable hours and reasonable wages, It is the reason labor day became a holiday. " n the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages.
People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities and breaks.
As manufacturing increasingly supplanted agriculture as the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first appeared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and vocal. They began organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor conditions and compel employers to renegotiate hours and pay.
Many of these events turned violent during this period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which several Chicago policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding traditions: On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first Labor Day parade in U.S. history.
The idea of a “workingmen’s holiday,” celebrated on the first Monday in September, caught on in other industrial centers across the country, and many states passed legislation recognizing it.Congress would not legalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in American labor history brought workers’ rights squarely into the public’s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.
On June 26, the American Railroad Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad traffic nationwide. To break the strike, the federal government dispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers.
In the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with American workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. More than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified.
Many credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the Central Labor Union, first proposed the holiday.
Labor Day is still celebrated in cities and towns across the United States with parades, picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays and other public gatherings. For many Americans, particularly children and young adults, it represents the end of the summer and the start of the back-to-school season.
First of all never and I say never believe anything a dealer tells you. Second go check out a couple other ones on the lot and see if other vehicles the same as yours have the same cuts. If they don’t you have a problem if they do then you don’t but they all should have the same as yours
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I would say it’s extremely poor quality control coming out of the Mexican plant it is made in .
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I went to 2 other dealerships. Unfortunately they have the same thing.
Agreed. I was told that was a recent change. I’m wondering if the quality was better pre Mexico.
Hi! The exact same thing happened to me! My car is a week old. Didnt think to look in back seat when I picked it up from dealership. I freaked when I saw the tears and damaged in a brand new car. They were shocked too and need a week to think about how they are going to fix this. I’m really worried. Did you ever get yours fixed? What happened? Please let me know!!
My father’s '63 Plymouth was delivered with a cracked radio speaker grille.
His '66 Ford was delivered with a slash in the right rear door panel.
My sister-in-law’s '72 Barracuda was delivered with… lumps in the vinyl roof, misaligned body panels and interior panels, a rear defroster unit that was dangling by one barely-tightened nut (and two missing nuts), and–most obviously–a paint job that looked like it had been applied with a broom. All of those cars were manufactured in The US.
Quality control is much more dependent upon the nature of the supervision (in this case… American…) in that factory, rather than the country in which the factory is located.
