If Only
Ford has an extremely efficient and productive manufacturing facility on the eastern coast of Brazil.
They’ve actually integrated members of their supply chain to operate within the same facility leading to an entirely different approach to building cars. Here in the US, the UAW won’t allow such a setup. Also different is the attitudes of their employees.
At Ford Motor Co.’s factory here, a group of Visteon Corp. workers connect the wiring in a dashboard module for a Ford EcoSport. Next to them, Lear Corp. employees are building seats for the same vehicle. A few feet away, Ford’s Diede Silva dos Santos applies trim to a Fiesta subcompact. She’s mastered seven jobs at the plant and is working on an eighth.
“If you do different jobs, it’s more interesting,” said Silva dos Santos, 24. “It gives me a chance to expand my knowledge. (It) makes me a more valuable employee, too, so that I will have a future here.”
All of them exemplify a different kind of worker in a different kind of plant for a Detroit automaker.
Contrast that mentality with the typical US union vibe where workers long for any type of leverage to keep their job other than adding value.
The subjective law that grants Unions their power must be abolished.
