I have not worked directly for the auto industry it is true but I have worked in companies supplying equipment to the same. Being at the end of the line, so to speak, we were driven to produce designs at a highly technical level with next to impossible time constraints. These designs were the equivalent of Green Field construction. In our case Blank Sheet. You would have thought that we would have been payed high bucks considering the level of scholorship and technical expertise involved...but no...and if there was a slow period we were layed off. Lay off for us was not ...sort of on half or 60% of pay...no it was 'nothing' or UIC...if another job could not be found. The great union never considered us and we could never be a part of it. We were a sub level of low life of no concern to the unionised prime industry. There are others who are involved here also...we have wives and children and elderly parents to care for, as do you possibly.
I wish that I could be angry about this but I am too drained now and too close to the wrong end of life, depending upon how you view it.
So, I will simply say that I am sorry that the industry is dissappearing. I feel pain for those who are loosing their jobs; I know how you feel, I have been there. Maybe you might give some thought to the fact that your great packages may, in some measure, have come at the expense of lesser auto industry providers who may just possibly, have either been inclined by less than favourable regard, or forced by financial circumstances, to buy transportation elsewhere. In the meantime I hope that laid off members will find alternative employment.
