Iowa City Airport in the News

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/arquery.asp and search for the names
WAL-MART and WALMART. I heard of a case where an employee complained
of harrassment and WM had an investigation team from headquarters in
the store before the day was over. Sam Walton puttered around from
store to store in the early days in a Tri-Pacer.

He also you used to proudly display "Made in America" on the walls of his
stores.

Those were gone before his body was cold in the grave...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:%gn5e.13830$yg7.1799@attbi_s51...

He also you used to proudly display "Made in America" on the walls of his stores.


and the sad thing is folks still think they follow that mantra...

"Blueskies" wrote

and the sad thing is folks still think they follow that mantra...

I don't think so. Made in china is proudly stamped in plane view, on most
things.
--
Jim in NC

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:%gn5e.13830$yg7.1799@attbi_s51...

He also you used to proudly display "Made in America" on the walls of his
stores.

Those were gone before his body was cold in the grave...

Thing is, many American products were discontinued due to QUALITY issues
(returns seven times the average) not for COST. Further, many such products
are not even made in the US anymore.

ANECDOTE": Our neighbor owns/runs a boutique housewares store. Probably
three our four years ago, my wife was trying to buy a vase and noticed they
were all made in China. She asked if there were others (she was boycotting
China...still does more or less) and the lady said that she always had to
return 3/4ths of the shipments due to poor finish or other such issues, even
ones that cost four or five times as much a comparable ones from China.

In short, the US tried to compete on price instead of quality and wound up
losing on both scores.

In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:
In short, the US tried to compete on price instead of quality and wound up
losing on both scores.

It's difficult to hold people accountable for a quality product when
labor laws protect those people who do not produce a quality product.
It's also difficult to stay in business when your wage-earners aren't
producing enough to make their employment profitable.

To be fair, there are unionized companies who are very successful,
produce high quality products, and are profitable. I suspect a
distinguishing characteristic of these companies is good morale, which
is directly tied to the type of management practiced.



JKG

"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:
In short, the US tried to compete on price instead of quality and wound
up
losing on both scores.

It's difficult to hold people accountable for a quality product when
labor laws protect those people who do not produce a quality product.
It's also difficult to stay in business when your wage-earners aren't
producing enough to make their employment profitable.

I agree with the high wage problem but what labor law are you citing?



To be fair, there are unionized companies who are very successful,
produce high quality products, and are profitable. I suspect a
distinguishing characteristic of these companies is good morale, which
is directly tied to the type of management practiced.


I'll agree with that.

In article Iwy7e.15904$up2.5839@okepread01,
"Gig 601XL Builder" wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote:
It's difficult to hold people accountable for a quality product when
labor laws protect those people who do not produce a quality product.
It's also difficult to stay in business when your wage-earners aren't
producing enough to make their employment profitable.

I agree with the high wage problem but what labor law are you citing?


No specific law, but the collective legislation that provides unions
with a monopoly on labor in companies where they successfully organize.



JKG