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A Cynical Process

By Thomas Sowell on 5.1.12 @ 12:01AM

Labor unions have a lot in common with the United Nations.

Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they actually are or what they actually do.

Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protectors of working people from their employers. And union bosses still employ that kind of rhetoric. However, someone once said, “When I speak I put on a mask, but when I act I must take it off.”

That mask has been coming off, more and more, especially during the Obama administration, and what is revealed underneath is very ugly, very cynical and very dangerous.

First there was the grossly misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” that the administration tried to push through Congress. What it would have destroyed was precisely what it claimed to be promoting — a free choice by workers as to whether or not they wanted to join a labor union.

Ever since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, workers have been able to express their free choice of joining or not joining a labor union in a federally conducted election with a secret ballot.

As workers in the private sector have, over the years, increasingly voted to reject joining labor unions, union bosses have sought to replace secret ballots with signed documents — signed in the presence of union organizers and under the pressures, harassments or implicit threats of those organizers.

Now that the Obama administration has appointed a majority of the members of the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB leadership has imposed new requirements that employers supply union organizers with the names and home addresses of every employee. Nor do employees have a right to decline to have this personal information given out to union organizers, under NLRB rules.

In other words, union organizers will now have the legal right to pressure, harass or intimidate workers on the job or in their own homes, in order to get them to sign up with the union. Among the consequences of not signing up is union reprisal on the job if the union wins the election. But physical threats and actions are by no means off the table, as many people who get in the way of unions have learned.

Workers who do not want to join a union will now have to decide how much harassment of themselves and their family they are going to have to put up with, if they don’t knuckle under.

In the past, unions had to make the case to workers that it was in their best interests to join. Meanwhile, employers would make their case to the same workers that it was in their best interest to vote against joining.

When the unions began losing those elections, they decided to change the rules. And after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, with large financial support from labor unions, the rules were in fact changed by Obama’s NLRB.

As if to make the outcome of workers’ “choices” more of a foregone conclusion, the time period between the announcement of an election and the election itself has been shortened by the NLRB.

In other words, the union can spend months, or whatever amount of time it takes, for them to prepare and implement an organizing campaign beforehand — and then suddenly announce a deadline date for the decision on having or not having a union. The union organizers can launch their full-court press before the employers have time to organize a comparable counter-argument or the workers have time to weigh their decision, while being pressured.

The last thing this process is concerned about is a free choice for workers. The first thing it is concerned about is getting a captive group of union members, whose compulsory dues provide a large sum of money to be spent at the discretion of union bosses, to provide those bosses with both personal perks and political power to wield, on the basis of their ability to pick and choose where to make campaign contributions from the union members’ dues.

Union elections do not recur like other elections. They are like some Third World elections: “One man, one vote — one time.” And getting a recognized union unrecognized is an uphill struggle.

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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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irish19| 5.1.12 @ 1:00AM

Another great article by Dr. Sowell. I would submit, however, that union elections are more similar to elections in Islamic countries: one man, one vote, one time.

TLP| 5.1.12 @ 7:01AM

"When I talk I wear a Mask. When I act, the Mask comes off."

I believe that the ability of 'The Mask' has long since lost its luster. I think that the 'Reality of the Numbers' has taken its toll.

EVERYBODY'S gettin out. Regulations (8000 New Pages of them) have made it almost impossible to STAY, let alone START a Company in Hussain's Brave New World. Hell. In the blink of an eye of his Big Money Bundlers getting a truckload of OUR MONEY for their Bogus Green Energy "Companies", they were pulling up stakes and heading for Greener Pastures. think: FISKER.

(No, Allen. Not 'Fister' that would be YOU, I'm afraid.)

What more does anyone need to know about The Alien's Intentions, when his "Chairman of Returning Business back to America" - Jeffery Immelt - is loading HIS STUFF in to the Moving Vans and trucking it off to China IN BROAD DAYLIGHT?

I think that, after we take control in January, and start doing things for EVERYBODY in this Country, and not just for those who Line the right people's Pockets, you're gonna see a big turnaround from the Brink of Madness, where we find ourselves today.

Without breaking in to the Treasury, for Walking Around Money, 1,000,000 Jobs can be created in less time than it takes "Her Excellency" to Shoehorn those two Prize Winning Hams of hers' in to her jeans. (Think: 10lbs. of Baloney, into a 5lb. bag. Actually, ya might wanna think 20.)

Even the stupidest Union Slob, can only be fooled for so long. Even he has to realize, as he's shopping with his Family in the "Saver's Aisle" of the Super Market, knowing that his Leadership is living the High Life with THE ONE, dining on Iranian Caviar and the Best Steaks from Japan, while washing it down with the Finest bottles of Bordeaux from the South of France, that "This ain't working".

By opening up EVERYTHING to Drilling, formerly Unemployed folks from the former Presidents Jobless Worker's Paradise, will be running to fill out Job Application Forms ala the California Gold Rush.

Think about it.........Truckers, and Welders, and Carpenters. Pipe Fitters, and Riggers, and Refiners. Every town lucky enough to be close by: An instant BOOMTOWN.

Restaurants, Hotels and Motels. Diners, and Grocery Stores, and Saloons. Bowling Alleys, Pizzarias, Churches and Bakeries.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, without the heavy hand of the Gods of Labour, as they move the pieces on the Gameboard with THEIR Leader.

The One "they've" been waiting for.

The One who has been Foretold.

The One who will bring ALL OF US to the Brink.

Unless we Stop Him.

Von Mises Jr| 5.1.12 @ 9:12AM

Spot on TLP. While crony capitalism happens in the GOP, Obama is like a cage fighter choke hold right before the fighter taps out or passes out.
If the "One" is re-elected through voter fraud (the only way left possible) then not only will we be out cold, but suffer drain bamage from lack of oxygen.

BTW, has oxygen been declared a pollutant by Obama's EPA yet?

Alan Brooks| 5.1.12 @ 12:48PM

"(No, Allen. Not 'Fister' that would be YOU, I'm afraid.)"

What about Sowell? he's a saint of any sort? no, God gave him the name Thomas so Uncle Tom Sowell can prove that though he is black he can out-white any white person:

"Look at me! I'm black but I am as anti-union as any white guy is!

USSAlabama| 5.1.12 @ 1:02PM

Thomas is from Toma, it means twin.

It is time for us to write the Editor again with regard to these trolls.

A forums first fealty is to its' members. A duty to keep obnoxious garbage in check while letting dissenting opinion stand.

editor@spectator.org

TLP| 5.1.12 @ 2:05PM

Thomas is a Saint.

You, Sir, are a Sinner.

But, you already knew this, didn't you?

ebonystone| 5.2.12 @ 10:34AM

Yeah, just look at that uppity Tom Sowell: he's thinking for himself! That's acting white!

POST American| 5.1.12 @ 4:45AM

---Great piece!

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of 'MAY---SIN---Re' op 'SO--Shell---ism'
and EUGENICS.

Truly, one and all have to gut up to take
on the deadly, deadly, deadly sinister
source of the 'DIE--ALLL-eck--TICK'
-the capstone EUGENICS foundations,
of which the U.N. is the magnum opus.

AGAIN,

DO CHECK OUT A.S.A.P:

Jay Weidner
RED Ice Radio (latest interview)
'Clash of Civilizations' pt 2
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Clint| 5.1.12 @ 5:14AM

Dr.Ron Paul,
" I rise to introduce the Truth in Employment Act which protects small businesses and independent-minded workers from the destructive and coercive "top-down'' organizing tactic known as salting. Salting is a technique designed by unscrupulous union officials for the purpose of harassing small businesses until the businesses compel their employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment. Passing the Truth in Employment Act is a good first step toward restoring the constitution rights of property and contract to employers and employees."

Jack London| 5.1.12 @ 6:53AM

Thankfully there are unions who stand up to employer intimidation, and many who see only too well what rabid nonsense Sowell writes.

Pecos Pete| 5.1.12 @ 7:30AM

Jack: (1) Name one company that has been convicted of employer intimidation. (2) Name one person, other than yourself, who attempts to contradict Dr. Sowell.

richard ryan| 5.1.12 @ 9:57AM

Here's what you don't seem to understand: In a conservative-run economy that allows businesses and the economy to grow, there is a free market at work. That goes both ways. There is a market for potential employees, and there is a market for jobs. Those employers who pay well and treat the employees well will be rewarded with hard working, highly skilled workers. In this world, which doesn't make sense to you, if you don't like how your employer treats you, vote with your feet.

Tim the Enchanter| 5.1.12 @ 10:27AM

Thankfully, there are employers who stand up to union intimidation, and many who see only too well what rabid nonsense Jack London writes. See... I can play too!

TexasMom2012| 5.1.12 @ 6:03PM

And states! Texas is a right to work state so my oldest did NOT have to join a union when he got a job at Krogers. Which is good because he has watched enough Union antics in Wisconsin that he wouldn't work there if he had to join a union. He is autistic not stupid. Although I had to contact the union and threaten to sue them for harassment if they didn't leave him alone. Too bad they did because I would have loved to follow through on that threat!

Brubaker| 5.1.12 @ 10:38AM

You'd be better off just sitting in mommy's basement and mumbling to yourself, rather than letting the world know you're and idiot.

ebonystone| 5.2.12 @ 10:38AM

Yeah, how much better it is to have the employees intimidated by the unions instead of by the employers.

Darin| 5.1.12 @ 6:58AM

Unions have become the "evil management" they say they oppose. Unions attempt to force employees to yield to their will and go after any who oppose them.

Indy| 5.1.12 @ 7:56AM

Trumka is a regular visitor to the WH, he brags about the access he has, I am sure he will be out pushing his message to the OWS crowd today. Do you think the protests will be peaceful? I have lost so much respect for unions, I used to support private sector unions but after seeing the behavior in Madison and OWS, I was completely turned off. I am sure there are still good union members, hopefully, they will find the courage to stand up to their leadership.

In defiance to OWS, I plan to put in extra hours at work and make sure I buy something today to support free markets. Have a great day all!

Jabber3| 5.1.12 @ 9:39AM

The unions are just another hungry Obama constituency that demands to be fed by the Obama administration. Unlike some other constituencies they are not being fed table scraps but given a full five course meal begining with the stacking of the NLRB with union radicals.

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 9:53AM

Unions are a mouthpiece for the struggle for social justice, for the just rights of working people in accordance with their individual professions

Tim the Enchanter| 5.1.12 @ 10:35AM

Maybe you should ply your "social justice" and "worker's rights" crap over at HuffPo, in the hope to find someone that might actually believe your ignorant drivel. I use the word "ignorant" because I've been in unions before, and if you think their so-called "leadership " gives two $hits about the pawns they lord over, I've got this great ocean-front property in Nevada you might be interested in.

USSAlabama| 5.1.12 @ 12:51PM

What a POS.

dRED never left work and found all four tires on his truck flattened because some union thug cut them.

MM| 5.1.12 @ 12:55PM

No, because that moron never spent a day at work.

Dick Nome | 5.1.12 @ 2:51PM

He might have been the thug who slashed the tires.

Dick Nome | 5.1.12 @ 10:47AM

Professional Organizations are not and should not be Unions. Unions have nothing to do with professionalism unless it is 'professional' thuggery.

Slacker| 5.1.12 @ 12:45PM

Actually being in a union and having a “profession” are mutually exclusive. They were originally called LABOR unions for a reason. Professionals don’t unionize. Professionals are the people social justice bullshit peddlers like shake down. Eat shit.

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 12:56PM

I got that quote from John Paul II. Happy May Day, comrades.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 2:12PM

DRed,

Maybe you should try reading the whole encyclical. You missed this gem with your selective quotation:

"In accordance with the principle of 'the dictatorship of the proletariat,; the groups that as political parties follow the guidance of Marxist ideology [e.g., the democrat party] aim by the use of various kinds of influence, including revolutionary pressure, to win a monopoly of power in each society in order to introduce the collectivist system into it by eliminating private ownership of the means of production. According to the principal ideologists and leaders of this broad international movement, the purpose of this program of action is to achieve the social revolution and to introduce socialism and finally the communist system throughout the world." (All emphasis in bold are mine.)
- Pope John Paul II, LABOREM EXERCENS (On Human Work), 14 September, A.D. 1981

Also, you are using the quote out of context. Mr. Sowell's article wasn't about the purpose of unions. He deals with the myth versus reality in the first paragraph. His point is that union practices, today, in the United States, are antithetical to liberty and freedom of association.

You really should read this encyclical, you might learn something. Such as socialism is not compatible with the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Gospel of Christ.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 2:22PM

Oops! I forgot to add that you should have also include the Holy Father's words that immediately followed the quotation you posted:

"However, this struggle should be seen as a normal endeavor 'for; the just good: In the present case, for the good which corresponds to the needs and merits of working people associated by profession; but it is not a struggle 'against' others. (Emphasis in the original.)

How does that statement jibe with the message of your stinky, hippie protester friends, DRed? Aren't the "99%" against the "1%" in your commie world?

Slacker| 5.1.12 @ 3:32PM

Maybe DRed has a point. Catholicism does have a deep-rooted bond with leftism.

Catholic social teaching is incompatible with the libertarian side of the conservatism. Rick Santorum is great example. He loves unions.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 5:53PM

Slacker,
You don't have a great deal of understanding of what the Catholic Church teaches, I'm afraid. There is no bond with "leftism," at all.

Unfortunately, what passes for libertarian these days is, in actuality, libertinism, for the most part.

And, Mr. Santorum was from Pennsylvania, a state heavily infested with unions. Like my own state of Michigan. Support of unions was the price required to win statewide office.

Slacker| 5.1.12 @ 7:24PM

Catholic social teaching does call for social justice and the church has embraced positive rights. In congress, catholic democrats outnumber catholic republican nearly 2:1. That’s a bond.

I think Santorum was sincere. His support of unions and rejection of libertarianism hurt him.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 7:54PM

Democrats can't be Catholic, really. They just call themselves Catholic. They are Catholics In Name Only, i.e., CINOs.

Catholic social justice, in it's true sense, has nothing to do with what lefties mean by the term, today.

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 3:37PM

Of course I'm using the quote out of context. That's the point. I'm having a laugh. I'm mean, look at this freaking commie: "The disproportionate distribution of wealth and poverty and the existence of some countries and continents that are developed and of others that are not call for a levelling out and for a search for ways to ensure just development for all. " Someone should have clubbed that stinky hippie in the head and brought him into the real world.

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 3:43PM

As to slacker, I'd say it's more that the Catholic Church and the modern American left share similar concerns about the inequalities caused by global capitalism.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 5:42PM

Okay, DRed, you got to section 2 of a document with 27 sections and 91 endnotes. Not very impressive. Again, try reading the entire encyclical, as a whole. Don't read it trying to find snippets you can use out of context (as you readily admit you do) to try to support socialism.

Because it doesn't.

If you had read the whole thing you would know that, because you would have read this:

"However, the role of unions is not to 'play politics' in the sense that the expression is commonly understood today. Unions do not have the character of political parties struggling for power; they should not be subjected to the decision of political parties or have too close links with them." (Emphasis mine.)

This is why most unions in this country violate Catholic teaching.

"No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist"
- Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (A.D. 1931)

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 6:02PM

Oh, stop Nick. Now you're just embarrassing yourself. Did the pope not say exactly what I quoted? I see a guy surrounded by a bunch of dudes wearing red talking about leveling, income redistribution and social justice and I don't need to read some fancy 27 section document with a bunch of footnotes to know what he's about. He's a commie, plain and simple.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 6:27PM

That's because, like most lefties, you see things that just aren't there, or, only what you choose to see.
Because you live in FantasyLand.
You can't deal with reality (or what I wrote,) so, you make things up.

By the way, did you see how some of your smelly, hippie, OWS protester comrades tried to blow-up a bridge in Ohio!?!?
Nice group you've got there, Dred. Really worth defending.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 7:40PM

I'm sorry, DRed, I should have realized that you haven't heard about this story, because you only watch PMS-NBC.
And only read The Daily Worker.
Here's a link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com.....veland-br/

DRed| 5.1.12 @ 7:40PM

hahaha. You really missed the point.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 7:50PM

No, you miss the point, DRed.
For a joke to be funny, it must have an element of truth.
Try to remember that, next time.

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USSAlabama| 5.1.12 @ 1:24PM

Dumbass. It is from Southern U. S. Bishops
On J. P. Stevens Company, 1980

Read here to find how the Catholic Church will be reigning in the socialist renegades.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....rge-weigel

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 2:45PM

Thanks for the link, USSAlabama!

Tim| 5.1.12 @ 10:40AM

What is not discussed very much
is the fact that there are vast differences between public and private sector unions.

Public employee unions being the City, State and Federal workers and the private unions of course making up employees from various companies.

As with all issues there are two sides to this story.

Putting philosophy aside, the Private Sector Union Leadership wants private businesses to grow because when they grow they can obtain more members if said company is unionized.

Often times their is a huge rift between public and private sector Union Leaders and many Private sector Union leaders are no different than most Rinos who are very business minded.

Are there really any major differences between vulture capitalists and private sector union leaders?

Both groups live lavish personal lifestyles and try to give at least a few crumbs to the working class.

The differences are mostly manufactured by political junkies to keep us all occupied and entertained.

Kingofthenet| 5.1.12 @ 12:04PM

People here in NYC waited a week OUTSIDE just to get an APPLICATION, for extremely dangerous Union Iron Worker Apprenticeships. Does that EVER happen in Non-Union Shops?

Dick Nome | 5.1.12 @ 12:20PM

You had better go find out how that works. Being an Iron Worker Apprentice doesn't mean you have work, it means if there is work the Union may hire you out to a contractor looking for people to fill a job.

Slacker| 5.1.12 @ 1:02PM

Union steel workers are some of the most despicable individuals you will ever encounter.

W| 5.1.12 @ 2:12PM

The Ironworkers unions, like other craft unions such as Plumbers, Steamfitters, and Carpenters, operate an apprentice program to teach the skills of the craft. The union hopes that upon graduation they will become union members and sign up for work through the union hiring hall, and pay union dues.
Many employers use the union hiring hall when they need experience workers for temporary jobs.

The problem for unions is that they train these
workers who sometimes go work for non union contractors.
The reason for so many wanting to join the apprenticeship program is to obtain the training, and sign up for the hiring hall.

Ironworkers especially is a skilled, dangerous job because they work on such heights, with the danger of falling.

Ron| 5.1.12 @ 12:29PM

I have about all I could stomach from the BS, LSD unions when I worked for the State of Alaska...Private corps should never have that much control over government workers.

A Union thug shows up at my home, ever, and he is going to get the business end of an American made shotgun. Period. Full Stop. End of story.

TexasMom2012| 5.1.12 @ 6:09PM

Ditto... Fortunately threat of harassment lawsuit protected my son but would have definitely loaded up the arsenal and been prepared to use it if union thugs stepped foot on my property!

Kingofthenet| 5.1.12 @ 4:01PM

Even Management KNOWS you can't trust a SCAB, further than you can kick a refrigerator. They are nothing but Treasonous Freeloaders.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 5:58PM

"They are nothing but Treasonous Freeloaders."

No, KooK, we call those people democrats!

cicero| 5.1.12 @ 4:15PM

Labor unions were formed when there was a gross disparity in power between the employer and the unskilled or semi-skilled worker. The unions bargained for contracts that provided living wages, seniority rights, and safe working conditions. Over the past several decades, these same unions have used their numbers, and resultant political influence, to achieve legislation mandating living wages (minimum wage), safe working conditions (OSHA), and seniority rights, among other things. As a result, the percentage of workers in the private sector belonging to labor unions has fallen dramitically. They have been so successful that they have worked themselves out of existence. They have, almost singlehandedly, created the middle class that is unique to the United States, and some industrialized countries, such as Germany. On the other hand, public sector unions, have no such similar function. Even with the passage of the NLRA, everyone involved was well aware that it would not work in the public sector, as the whole dynamic was different.
Private labor unions are self-regulating. If they over step the bounds of their industry, the commit suicide. No such bounds exist for the public sector unions, as they believe that the taxpayer is an ever laying golden goose. Unfortunatley, their overstepping of their bounds will not just result in their suicide, but that of the country as we know it.

Tim| 5.1.12 @ 4:42PM

I think we need to be very clear about calling out Union Leaders for mis guided behavior and do so while not lumping most private sector union workers in the same group.

Romney will need some support from Steelworkers etc in Ohio and Pens if he hopes to win those two States.

It will be next to impossible for Romney to win the White House if he looses Ohio and still difficult if he looses Steel Town(Santorum's back yard).

So if the goal is to beat Obama, I would suggest we leave the hard working union workers alone and just focus on the corrupt leadership
like any other rougue folks who steal from the working class for their own personal gain.

Theo Prinse| 5.1.12 @ 4:52PM

Thanks for this article prof. Sowell.
I perceive capitalism as a negative developing balance between re-distributive crony capitalism versus innovative entrepreneurship (venture capitalists) where innovation is the only source of wealth.
The Trade Unions are infiltrated by the Marxist theories interpreting communists on behalf of the crony capitalists against the innovative entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Nevertheless the Trade Unions should be about Freedom of Speech in relation to primary and secondary labor relations measured in an objective scientific method but the Trade Unions have become politicized for the re-distributive inflationary stagnant economic politics of the crony capitalists and their representation in the US administration and become an underground political party themselves.
2. Today the US crony capitalist 'community' is locked with 3 intertwining policies. A. the US military doctrine to (be able to) fight two wars for a long period of time B. the agreement to pay oil worldwide in US dollars. C. resulting in a dependency of the US military, arms, energy, automobile complex and their respective Trade Unions ... on Islam oil.
3. The Islamic world must be put behind an Iron Curtain.

Richard Baker| 5.1.12 @ 6:37PM

My Detroit Grandfather told me of the union struggles in the auto plants during the '20s and '30s. He said, "Richie, we HAD to have the unions." I understood that and the history certainly bears him out. However, the unions today don't have Ford Service and company goons harassing and beating the workforce though from listening to the unions today you'd think Harry Bennett and his ilk still exist.

Nick| 5.1.12 @ 7:35PM

Mr. Baker,

I agree with most of what you wrote. My late grandpa had a similar history and opinion. If he heard me talk about unions, he would probably crack me one in the head.

Before he moved to Detroit, in 1937, he worked in the coal mines to the east of Pittsburgh, from the time he was 13. I've heard the stories of living in a company house, with 7 brothers and sisters, and being in debt to the company store. (But, the funny thing is that they were in debt because my great-grandma was a spend-aholic. They had a refrigerator that took coins to operate, and she would steal the money out of the coin-box. She stole my grandpa's money, when he was a teenager, because she found out where he hid it!)

My grandpa fought with his father over the union. Great-grandpa was from Croatia and was happy to have a job and a place to live, compared to the old-country. My grandpa may have even shot somebody, according to my dad, in one of the numerous battles that were fought in the 1920's and 30's.

But, the more I've learned about the history of unions in this country, going back into the 19th century, the more I've learned about the riots, assassinations, and bombings committed by union leaders. Maybe the company owners had good reasons to fight back against union organizers, given their past track record?

Remember that all those people came to Detroit in the first place because Ford paid so well. Just a thought.

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