My father was a Teamsters Rep in the 90’s. I can remember him getting calls from members who were upset that they had to work. He would get so angry at these guys. He would fight to get them work and they would complain about it. The stress of having to deal with people like that probably led to his early death. I’m a supporter of unions, but there has to be some sanity to it.
I went to Detroit, to buy a special car. It was 1989 Pontiac Trans Am Daytona 500 car. I paid the man, the man gave me the keys & told me to start the motor & don't stop for 100 miles. He said "There are people in this city that will take your car from you & take your life". That was a powerful statement. It was hard to believe that a city in America could be so bad. As I drove away & made my way out of town, I noticed that some places were a shithole. Everywhere you looked , the people had slid into filth. Poverty was everywhere.
Yeah it's awful how racism and hate can destroy a whole Industry. Powerful stuff indeed. They call it Institutional racism. This isn't the only town I would avoid. Plenty of white southern towns where you'll lose your life also.
@Afix You can't rebuild anything when the demorats are in charge!! And you can't rebuild the ornate schools and other quality building that have been bull dozed!!
@Afix When I saw a video of the once beautiful and ornate schools in Detroit most of which have since been bulldozed, I almost cried!! But then, entitled young black hoodies don't give an f about architecture or pride in their schools.
@Afix There is no way in hell that those once beautiful and well constructed homes will ever be resurrected in Detroit or anywhere in the U.S! Nor will those ornate and beautiful schools that made you proud to enter their doors ever be built again. Our totally corrupt democratic mayor in Baltimore and his cronies had to bulldoze hundrreds of such properties so that his oligarchs and cronies (who lived out in the county and away from the mess they were about to make), could reap the massive millions thrown at Baltimore by the federal government and especially People like LBJ and Jimmy Carter.
I grew up and was raised in Detroit. I went to school there and eventually to Univ of Michigan and Wayne State. I got a chemical engineering degree. I left in the 70s mainly because Attorney General Frank Kelly attacked the chemical and oil & gas industry. He viewed them as polluters. So, it pretty much moved out of Michigan and I did, too.
Spot on look at what the left liberals have done to California....This agenda of bringing in more immigrants for cheap votes....they the left elitists want big government and keep us poor....I hope people see how the democrats are the party of Satan.
I lived in the Detroit suburbs (does anyone live IN Detroit?) from 1980 until 1992, working for General Motors. I am SO glad that I left Detroit and GM when I did. This is an EXCELLENT summary of what has gone on in Detroit and at GM. This is one of the best reporting that I have ever seen regarding Detroit and GM...I know, I LIVED it. And nothing has really changed in Detroit or at GM...when you make excuses, bail out failed organizations and live in denial, all you are doing is "kicking the can down the road"...the closing thoughts of the "experts" are excellent...
@@Msangel06 Im in Corktown, considered Detroit City limits. Im not black, nor is 14 of my other culturally diverse neighbors. We are just happy to appreciate each other for our differences and the pride we have for our city....thats the true Detroit welcoming spirit that separates us from other parts of the nation that waist time on skin color!😉 #DetroitStrong
Grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, my Father luckily was far enough in his career to be okay when Livonia GM plant shut down in the 90s. He went to Romulus. Ran for chairman and UAW office, never got elected cause he wasn’t a blue democrat loving UAW copy.
@@CoCo3one3so your a hipster with some money like the rest in Corktown now. That’s not Detroit, downtown is the only place getting ahead. Detroit at large is ghetto and not thriving.
If the finance and banking industry ever leaves New York City the exact same thing would happen there. The golden goose industries in these cities get bled dry by government policies, unions and corruption
The Delphi situation is almost ironic for me. I lived in Flint, MI when the huge plant at Dort and Davison came down. Now I live in El Paso, TX and just across the border, in Mexico, I can see the plant that was built and an option for the people of Flint to go to to keep their jobs. Keep in mind also, this is Juarez, Mexico. A city that is even less safe than Flint, MI and is globally recognized as such.
tha apple I phone is made in china by workers earning $60 a week, designer clothes are made in india by workers earning 30 cents an hour, that's the competition you have to beat, good luck.
Not necessarily true. Tariffs can protect American workers. But big corporations don’t care about nations, they only care about the bottom line. And look at the obscene amounts of $ corporations pay their CEOs! No way you can convince me any individual is worth so much more than the actual workers who create.
Anthony Mitchell well, no. And yes. But athletes are paid based on performance, ability. And that performance/ability is clear for all to see. No doubt many get paid more than they are worth. Damn good question, bro. I just think that a corporation with tens of thousands of employees should not get paid such huge amounts. I’ve had a few beers, and not able to “argue” too well. You make a great point, but I’ll have to think more clearly to answer you best. Thanks for replying, sir. Damn good question!
@@spidermight8054 When the company is not doing well, the first person who is likely to lose his job is the CEO. And the employees get to continue. There is more risk of losing one's job as a CEO than it is for the worker who "Creates." The worker is able to create because of the machine, and building put there for him to create. Without those the worker is practically useless.
Mpho Mosoahle I agree. BUT, that CEO that loses his/her job usually gets some huge payout, not to mention the huge amounts they “earned” before getting fired! Consider Michael Ovitz, who was CEO of Disney for awhile. When he was fired, he got $200 million! When CEOs get fired, they go back to one of their several mansions. When a regular worker gets fired, they often lose their houses/whatever!
I went to Detroit in april 2016 from the uk and it was sad to see what where very nice houses, burnt out and the streets empty, i only went to Detroit to go on a Ford rouge factory tour and i loved the place, i feel real bad for the people of Detroit i really hope the city can be sorted theres so much there and has so much potential
@@user-ls9ic5vr1g Republicans left the city, state. Now, it's the Demon-rats shooting and killing each other. Any sensible Republican leaves a crime ridden area. Democrats own all the ghettos. Democrats own the murder rate in all 57 states. (Obama "57 states")
I've seen multiple documentaries that all have different reasons as to why Detroit fell. Most were the city council, bad management, high taxes. It's a shame.
may the lord bless the liberals w/wisdom and clarity for all our sake because it seems that they will find any rationale to blame someone else for their own policies.
Yes, blame a global phenomenon on local politicians. If we put enough of you fucktards together we might a coherent thought. Nevermind the last Republican Mayor of Detroit went to prison for tax evasion.
azbacnikorange DETROIT HAS BEEN RUN, ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY, BY LIBERALS FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS AND EVERYONE W/HALF A BRAIN KNOWS THIS!!! ONE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR DID NOT BRING DOWN DETROIT YOU COLOSAL FUCKING MORON!!
azbacnikorange ex detroit mayor kwame kilpatrick is doing twenty eight years for corruption, wire fraud, racketeering, perjury, obstruction of justice and wearing tacky outfits. by and large, i think the dems have repubs beat on this battle; dems are just exceedingly adept at corruption. it's in their dna. funny thing is that the good citizens of detroit continue to overlook the obvious. they continue to vote for democrats. this battered wife syndrome is endemic to poor minorities... i think the wisest man who ever lived put it best: "as a dog returns to his vomit, so does a fool to his folly."
"Live free or die" describes the free market capitalist operating under a constitutional republic that allows one to govern themself under the rule of law .. "Live for free then die" describes a fascist socialist market operating under democracy that believes people are not capable of governing themselves. Both examples of government allow a person to pursue their self interest however the outcome is very different. When a person is allowed to pursue the property of others and this plunder is legal, it is socialism and it will fail. When a person pursues property without plundering others , this is what made Detroit great.
"When a person pursues property without plundering others " And that's *impossible* to keep unchecked without accountability and government laws. For there is *always* one or two individuals with a more "predatory" view of what property can be "pursued". You'd be amazed what some people are willing to do if nobody stands against them. And I'm afraid most people are just too busy with their own lives and lack enough time and insight into what's happening right under their noses to be entrusted to solve these things on their own and "self-govern". They need representatives and governing bodies to fight for them. You see we're not living in small rural communities with 100-1000 people anymore where the very survival of everybody depends on the honesty and a hearty hand-shake. "that believes people are not capable of governing themselves." Listen, you can't make people *not* sleep with their neighbor's wife, be faithful to their friends and keep a promise towards their own *kids* and you expect them to "self-govern". Only possible in a society full of educated, reasonable, honest and modest people. Unfortunately most people are just urban *chimps* who lack scope, insight and who have been way too pampered by abstract ideas about "freedom". Your average chimp-o always wants maximum freedom with no responsibility or obligations towards anybody but themselves. That's an entitled mentality which mated to ignorance is a deadly combination en masse. "this is what made Detroit great." Detroit reigned in the post-WWII world where everybody wanted a car. This was also a world where they somehow believed resources were limitless and where development stagnated because they believed they had nothing to learn from anybody in the world. Had it not been for the huge American markets for trucks and the cheap fuel Detroit would have gone the way of the dodo in the 1970's already.
Fire captain " Our equipment is junk, but our retirement and benefit packages are 24 carat gold. We can't save your house, but you can see my motor home if your ever in Florida."
guess you wish they never had unions to give them a living wage, go east and work in an asian plant in india or china, there very efficiant, and no unions.
@@dbec5224 Unions got greedy and became an unsustainable part of business!They are doing the same thing to public emloyees.They are losing their pensions because cities can't pay them!Brown and Sharp,A machinist company,had to close it's doors inRI.In 1981 a striking worker's sign read"I can't live on $14.75 an hour!"At that time minimum wage was approximately $3.00 an hour. Unions are a relic of the past!If you are a union employee,enjoy it while it lasts!But plan ahead for your job to disappear!Lastly;Foreign automakers are doing well assembling cars in America!Happy workers with no U.A.W.!
@@LewdCustomer That's simple Econ.101!We're in a world economy that's forcing workers to compete with developing countries.Even other states within the U.S.!Low skill workers must adapt!Move!Get new skills!
When I grew up, we always had a mixture of Ford and GM products. We thought it was normal for a car to last about 100,000 miles or 150,000 if you went balls out on the maintenance. Then we were bequeathed our first Japanese car from my grandparents (a Mazda in this case). It was only barely broken in, so my mom sold her Grand Am and drove that instead. Wed did the usual maintenance and a decade later, the thing is at 150k on the odometer and not one single issue. We've had GM vehicles where the AC, heater core and transmission required major repairs before 75,000 miles and the engine burned oil.... A Taurus with a transmission that grenaded itself (under warranty, surprisingly no tranny issues after that) at 25,000 miles and power steering went out at 60,000..... but that Mazda? That little 626 is now well over 200K and still on the road after we gave it away. Needless to say, we've only purchased Japanese cars since (we do Ford pickups though).
I am a car addict! I think that the quality of "American Made" cars are of at least equal quality of foreign cars. OK, but here is what I find interesting - there are a lot of RUclipsrs out there (ViceGrip Garage, Roadkill, etc.) that resurrect old American cars. Some have been started up after sitting in a field for 20 years! A day of effort, and they are brought to life again! Old American cars were mechanically tough, and easy to work on. Their biggest downfall was RUST!!!
@@march3769the Japanese vehicles until the last decade or less are even worse for rust. Toyota had to recall FRAMES because it would snap in half. The reason little old Toyota trucks with the 22r are so expensive is because they rotted in half in 5 years in Michigan.
GM destroyed complete communities in Belgium. There was plenty of space to build a factory but they needed to destroy villages and farmland so the farmers where forced to work at GM or they wouldn't get enough workers. Few years later they closed the plant and it is still unused.
i hope the lessons you learned from this is to be wary of your own Belgian politicians and "cronies" who are more than willing to sacrifice their own countrymen. I read about the history of Finland. When they gained their independence in 1918 they introduced certain laws which would make it impossible for foreign investors to reap all the benefits. They also made sure much land belonged to the Finnish people and not some foreign land-owners. One of the protection-laws meant that any non-Finns could invest in Finland and build factories or facilities on the condition they themselves settled in Finland and that a certain amount *always* benefited the locals. This is how Finland is in joint first place with Denmark on the Corruption Index as the *least* corrupt country in the world. Smaller countries should always make sure not to become mere pawns and puppets for the big corporations of large countries. GM made business with Nazi Germany in the mid 1930's so business was wherever they found it...
A friend of mine swept floors there at GM in the eighties and was making 80 grand a year , full benefits always took voluntary lafyoff for three months every year , spent winters in Florida and made 80 percent of his wage on lay off 🤔😳🤷🏻♂️
The guy talking about Detroit not just needing cash. It has a new mindset, we have learned, we are rebuilding. Heard the same thing 10 years ago. Heard the same thing 20 years ago. Heard the same thing 30 years ago. It's still Detroit.
There is no reason any more to concentrate auto manufacturing in Detroit. So auto manufacturing has left Detroit, and will never return. GM still has its HQ in Detroit, but those white collar guys live in Grosse Pointe or in Oakland county. If Detroit is to resume growing, it will have to find a new economic direction. I think Detroit should contract to the area east of I94. The blighted buildings must be razed. Most GM and Chrysler employees neither live nor work in Detroit. Hence bailing out GM and Chrysler in no way bailed out Detroit. If GM had gone under, the Poletown plant would have been sold to someone. Detroit would have lost the revenue resulting from the 1.2% city income tax on nonresident GM executives. Otherwise little would have changed. I cannot fathom why GM built a plant by condemning a viable working class neighbourhood, rather than a half vacant dying neighbourhood, where the condemnation cost per acre would have been substantially lower. Detroiters are violent and disrespect property, in ways that make it impossible to attract new business activity to Detroit. Until that changes, there is no hope of a turnaround.
Ever take a look at some of those "blighted" buildings? they would cost millions each if they were to be built new!! Thanks to private initiative, so such buildings were rescued before the demorats could wipe them out to make room for their cronies industrial parks!! Philladelphia went through Detroit's phase in the seventies and never recovered!!
This documentary brushes over the facts with a big fat brush. I think it's impossible to truly comprehend why things happened the way they did. We all like to think everyone is "rational" but things happen in very complex dynamics and blaming unions is just too easy of a target.
Detroit is just an advanced case of what's happening in many of America's cities. Look at Chicago, Illinois as a whole, public pensions across the country massively underfunded, the dire conditions of rust belt cities in Ohio(Cleveland and Toledo). The collapse of public education, public health and the militarization of a brutal and violent police force are signs that should be of concern to everybody.
Socialism works fine in Sweden. We gladly pay taxes into our welfare so we could have free school, healthcare and elderycare. That's a bit of your obamacare!
@@ljk7182 How free are you in Sweden?? How are the schools in Sweden?? How much is the tax you pay in % in Sweden?? Volvo left Sweden after what you praise became a reality, and other companies. How do you call that any "better?" When the Government is literally running your lives like pawns, when they have outlawed free speech🤔🤔🤔
Responsibility starts at the top. Sure, the unions may have gotten contracts too restrictive, but only because the management was so greedy in the first place. The workers didn't design or approve the crappy cars that wouldn't sell, and the guys at the top still walked away with golden parachute separation $$$$. If they can, so can the guys in the union.
I've travel the country extensively for most of my life for business and there are some very bad places. One thing these bad places have in common is they're "run" by Democrats. Detroit has a very ominous feel to it. Detroit has always been a tough place. But now days? I realize Fallujah Iraq is worse but Detroit is like being in such a city. A very ominous feel to it and reeks of danger. I've never seen businesses like those in Detriot. Solid steel buildings with no windows and heavy steal doors. Its the only place I've been robbed and the thieves were incredibly brazen about it. I was robbed in front of several witnesses, security cameras and guards didn't detour the thieves. I wasn't robbed personally but my equipment was stolen with me right there and witnesses all over the place. I called 911 and the didn't even bother to send a patrol car.
I don't know about some of these Detroit citizens they interview on the streets, but hey, those are def Detroit-ers. I moved to Detroit from Rock Island, IL....and I think it's a great city. It has so much potential to be great again....so much creativity and great people here. Detroit, meaning the people of, has to do it themselves though...wash out all the courruption and you can start over.
Good review of the economic issues re unionism. Of course it leaves out how unionism and certain cultures did the same things to the schools and how harassment and crime drove the makers away, leaving the city destitute.
Conclusion: the problem was the workers and the unions. The magic word, "flexibility", means just less money to the workers and more money to Wall Street.
What I love about Detroit ! I love the history of Detroit , I love the buildings and the architecture. And I Love My Detroit teams the Red Wings ,Lions, and Tigers. I love Saturdays at the Eastern Market, or go to the top of the Ren Cen. Feel like taking the girl for a stroll go to the new Belle Isle or to really impress your Girl take her to the Detroit institute of arts. I love the small Mom and Pop (Motz Burgers ) or the Lafayette Coney Island. Detroit isn't as bad as people want you to believe. my Dad said if you look for trouble you'll find it no matter what City or Country you live in. Detroit I love ya !
This is all well and good. However the fundamental reason Detroit is bankrupt is that Black people as a group lack the human capital needed to support a 21st century major American city. It's something we don't like to discuss openly but that's the reality. Ford, GM and Chrysler could start relocating plants in Detroit and its doubtful a majority of Detroit's residents would even qualify for the jobs.
There are many stories of anecdotal evidence on here, so i'll add another one. I've owned mostly American cars with one exception; a '91 Honda Civic. It was quite possibly the worst car I ever owned. It had crank windows, but one window didn't roll down, another door did not open, and the drivers electric shoulder seat belt mostly did not work. All minor things that I can live with. The worst part was how much oil it burned. Shortly after purchase (180k on the odo) I drove it ~300 miles round-trip. In that time it burned 4 quarts (1 gallon) of oil. That's as much as a 2-stroke. First and last time I buy a Honda. It was supposed to replace my '95 S-10 that took me to 278k before giving up the ghost.
How does this keep happening. They new what was happening and no one could stop it. It is and will continue to happen around the country. It doesn't have to happen, but it will.
These are the four main reasons for Detroit's demise: 1. Blacks keeping their bitter attitudes from the unjust treatment of the Jim Crow south thus reinforcing the black stereotype from the local white population. 2. Electing a leftist black racist and corrupt mayor named Coleman Young from 1974 to 1994, which destroyed race relations and business opportunities in the city. 3. Relying on one industry for far too long while other cities, like Pittsburgh, diversified their economies for the 21st century. 4. Becoming a one party city that caused a lack of diversity of thought and ideas to solve the city's problems.
You goof ball Detroit has a long racist history of stifling the black population. Not to mention the racist and unconstitutional practices by the FHA, read a book.
Ahhh, the legacy of King Coleman: everything in Detroit that could be stolen has been. At this point, the suburbs have basically quarantined the city, with hopes and prayers that it will just die off as soon as possible. Pretty much the only people left there today are junkies and Welfare cases, who happen to be the bedrock of the "weirdest dynamic" the guy choked trying to describe in neutral terms at 36:25. The phrase he couldn't spit out is 'attitude of entitlement', which is the mindset that it's everybody else's fault that nobody is giving you enough of somebody else's money. Die, monster, die...
But UAW workers, happy with their financial situation, indulge in buying the $800 iPhone, etc., continuing the US on the path of the short-term consumption fueled economy. Now Apple, which is pretty much a gadgety - fashion accessory company rather than a bona-fide computer company, has a market capitalization of 20 times that of General Motors.
YES! Thanks for mentioning the UAW instead of blaming Detroit all on black people! Dad had a great career, grueling and frustrating, as a the lead of negotiations with the UAW. So I guess that was good. But it was a hell of a job! Dad slept through Thanksgiving day and our family dinner because negotiations had to be settled that night. He got home at 5 AM completely exhausted. As a kid, I hated the UAW for that. But I guess dad had a good job because of them. Now he and mom live in Naples, FL. Hell to the NO! to stay in that Hell Hole of the greater Detroit area. Love Southern California ever since I moved here at 22 years old!!
Robert Mack OH yes! I wasn't that optimistic. But had a zillion reasons not to give Hillary the power to completely screw our national security. The pundits assuming women would vote for her because Girl Power! Insulting! Guess women can't be told who to vote for after all! The MSM can't tell men and women who to vote for anymore either. That alone was an amazing victory!
Lumping the U.A.W. and corporate management together, with the lion's share of blame going to the workers, is misleading. Management, which continued to pay itself obscene bonuses even as the ship was sinking, was solely responsible for determining what kind of product would be made, how to structure debt, and negotiating labor contracts. The union is responsible to the workers; management was supposed to be responsible to the shareholders. They ignored that responsibility in favor of their own short-term interests.
I agree. Blaming the Union is total bullshit. This is a result of crony capitalism and superficial production without studying the markets' demand and supply. It's all mismanagement, bad decision, planning, superficial expectation and lack of rational market research and lack of business flexibility.
This is the biggest bunch of ant-union bullshit I have ever seen. Was this movie written by Goldman Sachs? Are unions perfect? Hell no, but to say the union members just go to work to sit and get drunk and play cards for 30 years is just unfuckingbeleivable. I know, I'm a union member, come to work with me some time. This movie is basically a anti-union ant-labor screed that says big banks and investment houses are the smart guys that will save the universe. How did that work out for you in 2008 guys? How much money did the US Govt. give to Wall St. in 2008/9?!?!?!?! ENRON anyone? Not a fucking peep about that in this "documentary" about how Wall St. bankers would have plunged the WORLD into financial chaos if the Govt. hadn't bailed THEM out. This movie is so full of Fox News clips I think that the RNC must have financed the production. In the end of this documentary they even insinuated the same old bullshit routine of " Well, golly. If you unclean laborers would just basically go back to living in company shantytowns and live on subsistence wages like in the good ol' days so we could live in tax free Robber Baron splendor then everything will be ok." This isn't a subjective documentary but a anti-union propaganda piece. Bleeeh.
The management cannot make viable business decisions when the outcome could be a union strike. That's why many automakers have and are moving out of Detroit and the U.S. altogether.
Today I drive a stock manual transmission Honda Civic SI. I bought it in 2000. So approaching 20 years with it. There are no squeaks, funny noises or any systemic problems. In all these years all I've done is the usual maintenance -- tires, battery, brake pads and fluids. I've only had to replace the radiator. It's still great to drive -- I simply love the hum of its VTEC engine. Unfortunately I won't consider an American car. After all the problems I had with several Fords including a brand spanking new Ford Taurus SHO ('92) I'm done with the American motor industry.
Not one word was uttered in this documentary about U.S. industrial policy and the shift of that policy over the last 34 years. Unions pushed too much and I'm sure there was corruption and other factors...but the manufacturing base had the rug ripped out from underneath it as well. This was probably the biggest factor of all and wasn't mentioned.
Same thing happened in Australia. They continued to make the cars that the locals wanted even when imports got better and tariffs dropped. Sales dropped and they continued to make the big car with V8's and not a world car. People wanted SUV and smaller cars. Until the auto industry shut up shop and moved to Korea.
Any thinking individual understands the downfall of a once great, prosperous, and vibrant city as Detroit, however, this reasonably short yet concise video exposes the positive and negative role(s) in which government - on both local and federal levels, unions, and the short-sightedness of the automobile manufacturers themselves was brought to its knees. If any still in doubt how the culmination occurred, watch with interest and learn. Thank you MSM...
I grew up in Detroit area . I moved out of there years ago . I hate it and don't miss it a bit. I wish they would have let them eat the bullet. people making 35 dollars an hour to push a couple buttons and turn some. screws . I work as an airline mechanic and have traveled and lived in many places. in San Antonio tx at the Toyota plant they make 12 an hr. which is deserving since it takes no skill. if you wanted to make a decent check you can work the overtime.
Sounds like you have a personal problem with your shitty paying job and job security. And if that guy at Toyota fucks up a days worth of trucks how much did he just cost Toyota but see you only see your piss poor situation that you can't find a way out of and are jealous for what other people fought for the biggest burden that the union GOT THE COMPANYIES TO AGREE TO were the pensions that where payed for by the companies. And lobbying is a political problem
I live in right to work state, unions are ran off here. My company fires anyone that joins a union. But in right to work states that's legal and great. We get better wages and vacation/even fathers get time off paid when child is born to help the mother
This is a lesson for all sorts of countries, industries, workplaces, managements, unions and individuals. Milk the cow too much and it dies. I have seen this happen in one successful company that I worked for years ago, everyone knew the way things were heading when the orders slowed down except the unions - the end of a century of good profits and good pay.
Public employee unions are the toxic poison of Detroit, Flint, and most other older northern US cities. The Democratic Party wrecked these cities with their endless pandering to both crooked organized labor and the unmotivated urban poor.
There was an old say "Do not buy an american car that was made on a Friday, because the workmanship was lousy". This came from a Union worker friend at GM
American car industry was "great" when Europe, China and Japan were at rubbles. There was simply too little competition now things are quite different. Get used to it!
There is no way no one saw this coming. Detroit has been shrinking since the 1950s. Every census has reported a smaller and smaller population every 10 years without interruption.
Unfairly vilifies the union. Was waiting for the part in which they talked about Rick Wagners compensation, while GM lost almost 100 billion under his watch he collected almost 100 million in executive compensation.
Starting around 36:30, why didn't Thomas LaDuke just come out and say, "The people of Detroit will continue to vote for the idiot Democrats who were instrumental, along with the unions, in running the city into the ground for the last 6 decades."
Never think that you can depend on a corporation for anything. They'll loot you for money and labor until they can get a better deal somewhere else, and then leave you a husk and tell you to get stuffed.
My father was a Teamsters Rep in the 90’s. I can remember him getting calls from members who were upset that they had to work. He would get so angry at these guys. He would fight to get them work and they would complain about it. The stress of having to deal with people like that probably led to his early death.
I’m a supporter of unions, but there has to be some sanity to it.
bless you for sharing that
I went to Detroit, to buy a special car. It was 1989 Pontiac Trans Am Daytona 500 car. I paid the man, the man gave me the keys & told me to start the motor & don't stop for 100 miles. He said "There are people in this city that will take your car from you & take your life". That was a powerful statement. It was hard to believe that a city in America could be so bad. As I drove away & made my way out of town, I noticed that some places were a shithole. Everywhere you looked , the people had slid into filth. Poverty was everywhere.
It’s horrible.
Yeah it's awful how racism and hate can destroy a whole Industry. Powerful stuff indeed. They call it Institutional racism. This isn't the only town I would avoid. Plenty of white southern towns where you'll lose your life also.
Detroit...may you rest in peace...Baltimore soon to follow.
@Afix You can't rebuild anything when the demorats are in charge!! And you can't rebuild the ornate schools and other quality building that have been bull dozed!!
@Afix When I saw a video of the once beautiful and ornate schools in Detroit most of which have since been bulldozed, I almost cried!! But then, entitled young black hoodies don't give an f about architecture or pride in their schools.
@Afix There is no way in hell that those once beautiful and well constructed homes will ever be resurrected in Detroit or anywhere in the U.S! Nor will those ornate and beautiful schools that made you proud to enter their doors ever be built again. Our totally corrupt democratic mayor in Baltimore and his cronies had to bulldoze hundrreds of such properties so that his oligarchs and cronies (who lived out in the county and away from the mess they were about to make), could reap the massive millions thrown at Baltimore by the federal government and especially People like LBJ and Jimmy Carter.
@Afix Yeah! And it's still a beautiful cow pasture!
Everywhere democrats socialists rule. The same exact thing that happened to Detroit is happening to Cali. I have a video. No ads. “Save AmericA “
I grew up and was raised in Detroit. I went to school there and eventually to Univ of Michigan and Wayne State. I got a chemical engineering degree. I left in the 70s mainly because Attorney General Frank Kelly attacked the chemical and oil & gas industry. He viewed them as polluters. So, it pretty much moved out of Michigan and I did, too.
What did you do for a living??
Detroit is a perfect example of what happens when you run out of other people's money. Which city is next?
Baltimore.
the same scenario is already happening to Chicago. It will happen within a 20 year period.
Chicago
Spot on look at what the left liberals have done to California....This agenda of bringing in more immigrants for cheap votes....they the left elitists want big government and keep us poor....I hope people see how the democrats are the party of Satan.
Glenn Evans you nailed it. Everything you said seems true. Very sad, but true.
Interesting to note, UAW is exempt from Ocare.
I lived in the Detroit suburbs (does anyone live IN Detroit?) from 1980 until 1992, working for General Motors. I am SO glad that I left Detroit and GM when I did. This is an EXCELLENT summary of what has gone on in Detroit and at GM. This is one of the best reporting that I have ever seen regarding Detroit and GM...I know, I LIVED it. And nothing has really changed in Detroit or at GM...when you make excuses, bail out failed organizations and live in denial, all you are doing is "kicking the can down the road"...the closing thoughts of the "experts" are excellent...
Vote for TRUMP!!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!
Mostly blacks live “IN” Detroit..
@@Msangel06 Im in Corktown, considered Detroit City limits. Im not black, nor is 14 of my other culturally diverse neighbors. We are just happy to appreciate each other for our differences and the pride we have for our city....thats the true Detroit welcoming spirit that separates us from other parts of the nation that waist time on skin color!😉 #DetroitStrong
Grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, my Father luckily was far enough in his career to be okay when Livonia GM plant shut down in the 90s. He went to Romulus. Ran for chairman and UAW office, never got elected cause he wasn’t a blue democrat loving UAW copy.
@@CoCo3one3so your a hipster with some money like the rest in Corktown now. That’s not Detroit, downtown is the only place getting ahead. Detroit at large is ghetto and not thriving.
If the finance and banking industry ever leaves New York City the exact same thing would happen there. The golden goose industries in these cities get bled dry by government policies, unions and corruption
Management walk away with their retirement. City managers did the same. UAW management also did the same.
The Delphi situation is almost ironic for me. I lived in Flint, MI when the huge plant at Dort and Davison came down. Now I live in El Paso, TX and just across the border, in Mexico, I can see the plant that was built and an option for the people of Flint to go to to keep their jobs. Keep in mind also, this is Juarez, Mexico. A city that is even less safe than Flint, MI and is globally recognized as such.
tha apple I phone is made in china by workers earning $60 a week, designer clothes are made in india by workers earning 30 cents an hour, that's the competition you have to beat, good luck.
Not necessarily true. Tariffs can protect American workers. But big corporations don’t care about nations, they only care about the bottom line. And look at the obscene amounts of $ corporations pay their CEOs! No way you can convince me any individual is worth so much more than the actual workers who create.
@@spidermight8054 Does the same logic apply to the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL?
Anthony Mitchell well, no. And yes. But athletes are paid based on performance, ability. And that performance/ability is clear for all to see. No doubt many get paid more than they are worth. Damn good question, bro. I just think that a corporation with tens of thousands of employees should not get paid such huge amounts. I’ve had a few beers, and not able to “argue” too well. You make a great point, but I’ll have to think more clearly to answer you best. Thanks for replying, sir. Damn good question!
@@spidermight8054 When the company is not doing well, the first person who is likely to lose his job is the CEO. And the employees get to continue. There is more risk of losing one's job as a CEO than it is for the worker who "Creates." The worker is able to create because of the machine, and building put there for him to create. Without those the worker is practically useless.
Mpho Mosoahle I agree. BUT, that CEO that loses his/her job usually gets some huge payout, not to mention the huge amounts they “earned” before getting fired! Consider Michael Ovitz, who was CEO of Disney for awhile. When he was fired, he got $200 million! When CEOs get fired, they go back to one of their several mansions. When a regular worker gets fired, they often lose their houses/whatever!
I went to Detroit in april 2016 from the uk and it was sad to see what where very nice houses, burnt out and the streets empty, i only went to Detroit to go on a Ford rouge factory tour and i loved the place, i feel real bad for the people of Detroit i really hope the city can be sorted theres so much there and has so much potential
the cows now have great potential because Detroit has plenty of grazing land since most of it has been razed to the ground!!
Big government, big business and big unions. What's not to hate?
Big Business is fine as long as government doesn't bail them out if they fuck up.
Democrats and unions killed Detroit.
Paul Bnow TRUE
@@paulfromdonmills no its the auto industry. Infact whem detorit was great it was a mixed city which means people voted red and blue.
@@user-ls9ic5vr1g Republicans left the city, state. Now, it's the Demon-rats shooting and killing each other. Any sensible Republican leaves a crime ridden area. Democrats own all the ghettos. Democrats own the murder rate in all 57 states. (Obama "57 states")
I've seen multiple documentaries that all have different reasons as to why Detroit fell. Most were the city council, bad management, high taxes. It's a shame.
NAFTA put the nails in Detroit's coffin.
thanks for billy clinton signing it
Reagan started it
frank ertolacci that was the excuse to unionize. They priced themself out.
Bullshit.
nafta killed my beloved hometown Anderson IN as well
Great job. Kudos to Ben Howe, Thomas LaDuke, Michael Deppisch, Boris Zelkin and Sarah H. Smith! Compelling message, brilliantly executed.
may the lord bless the liberals w/wisdom and clarity for all our sake because it seems that they will find any rationale to blame someone else for their own policies.
if the good lord would bless liberals with wisdom, they'd immediately stop being liberal.
Yes, blame a global phenomenon on local politicians. If we put enough of you fucktards together we might a coherent thought. Nevermind the last Republican Mayor of Detroit went to prison for tax evasion.
azbacnikorange DETROIT HAS BEEN RUN, ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY, BY LIBERALS FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS AND EVERYONE W/HALF A BRAIN KNOWS THIS!!! ONE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR DID NOT BRING DOWN DETROIT YOU COLOSAL FUCKING MORON!!
Ks Knight A-f*cking-Men, brotha man.
azbacnikorange ex detroit mayor kwame kilpatrick is doing twenty eight years for corruption, wire fraud, racketeering, perjury, obstruction of justice and wearing tacky outfits. by and large, i think the dems have repubs beat on this battle; dems are just exceedingly adept at corruption. it's in their dna.
funny thing is that the good citizens of detroit continue to overlook the obvious. they continue to vote for democrats. this battered wife syndrome is endemic to poor minorities... i think the wisest man who ever lived put it best: "as a dog returns to his vomit, so does a fool to his folly."
"Live free or die" describes the free market capitalist operating under a constitutional republic that allows one to govern themself under the rule of law .. "Live for free then die" describes a fascist socialist market operating under democracy that believes people are not capable of governing themselves. Both examples of government allow a person to pursue their self interest however the outcome is very different. When a person is allowed to pursue the property of others and this plunder is legal, it is socialism and it will fail. When a person pursues property without plundering others , this is what made Detroit great.
"When a person pursues property without plundering others " And that's *impossible* to keep unchecked without accountability and government laws. For there is *always* one or two individuals with a more "predatory" view of what property can be "pursued". You'd be amazed what some people are willing to do if nobody stands against them. And I'm afraid most people are just too busy with their own lives and lack enough time and insight into what's happening right under their noses to be entrusted to solve these things on their own and "self-govern". They need representatives and governing bodies to fight for them.
You see we're not living in small rural communities with 100-1000 people anymore where the very survival of everybody depends on the honesty and a hearty hand-shake.
"that believes people are not capable of governing themselves." Listen, you can't make people *not* sleep with their neighbor's wife, be faithful to their friends and keep a promise towards their own *kids* and you expect them to "self-govern". Only possible in a society full of educated, reasonable, honest and modest people. Unfortunately most people are just urban *chimps* who lack scope, insight and who have been way too pampered by abstract ideas about "freedom". Your average chimp-o always wants maximum freedom with no responsibility or obligations towards anybody but themselves. That's an entitled mentality which mated to ignorance is a deadly combination en masse.
"this is what made Detroit great." Detroit reigned in the post-WWII world where everybody wanted a car. This was also a world where they somehow believed resources were limitless and where development stagnated because they believed they had nothing to learn from anybody in the world. Had it not been for the huge American markets for trucks and the cheap fuel Detroit would have gone the way of the dodo in the 1970's already.
Fire captain " Our equipment is junk, but our retirement and benefit packages are 24 carat gold. We can't save your house, but you can see my motor home if your ever in Florida."
Detroit, built by enterprise, crippled by socialism.
That needs to be stitched on a pillow - that sums it up perfectly
guess you wish they never had unions to give them a living wage, go east and work in an asian plant in india or china, there very efficiant, and no unions.
@@dbec5224 Unions got greedy and became an unsustainable part of business!They are doing the same thing to public emloyees.They are losing their pensions because cities can't pay them!Brown and Sharp,A machinist company,had to close it's doors inRI.In 1981 a striking worker's sign read"I can't live on $14.75 an hour!"At that time minimum wage was approximately $3.00 an hour.
Unions are a relic of the past!If you are a union employee,enjoy it while it lasts!But plan ahead for your job to disappear!Lastly;Foreign automakers are doing well assembling cars in America!Happy workers with no U.A.W.!
Evidently you don't get economics. We need unions.
@@LewdCustomer That's simple Econ.101!We're in a world economy that's forcing workers to compete with developing countries.Even other states within the U.S.!Low skill workers must adapt!Move!Get new skills!
When I grew up, we always had a mixture of Ford and GM products. We thought it was normal for a car to last about 100,000 miles or 150,000 if you went balls out on the maintenance. Then we were bequeathed our first Japanese car from my grandparents (a Mazda in this case). It was only barely broken in, so my mom sold her Grand Am and drove that instead. Wed did the usual maintenance and a decade later, the thing is at 150k on the odometer and not one single issue. We've had GM vehicles where the AC, heater core and transmission required major repairs before 75,000 miles and the engine burned oil.... A Taurus with a transmission that grenaded itself (under warranty, surprisingly no tranny issues after that) at 25,000 miles and power steering went out at 60,000..... but that Mazda? That little 626 is now well over 200K and still on the road after we gave it away. Needless to say, we've only purchased Japanese cars since (we do Ford pickups though).
I am a car addict! I think that the quality of "American Made" cars are of at least equal quality of foreign cars.
OK, but here is what I find interesting - there are a lot of RUclipsrs out there (ViceGrip Garage, Roadkill, etc.) that resurrect old American cars. Some have been started up after sitting in a field for 20 years! A day of effort, and they are brought to life again! Old American cars were mechanically tough, and easy to work on. Their biggest downfall was RUST!!!
American cars fell off big time after the mid 70's. I'd still never consider purchasing a small American car versus a Honda or Toyota.
@@march3769the Japanese vehicles until the last decade or less are even worse for rust. Toyota had to recall FRAMES because it would snap in half. The reason little old Toyota trucks with the 22r are so expensive is because they rotted in half in 5 years in Michigan.
GM destroyed complete communities in Belgium. There was plenty of space to build a factory but they needed to destroy villages and farmland so the farmers where forced to work at GM or they wouldn't get enough workers. Few years later they closed the plant and it is still unused.
i hope the lessons you learned from this is to be wary of your own Belgian politicians and "cronies" who are more than willing to sacrifice their own countrymen. I read about the history of Finland. When they gained their independence in 1918 they introduced certain laws which would make it impossible for foreign investors to reap all the benefits. They also made sure much land belonged to the Finnish people and not some foreign land-owners. One of the protection-laws meant that any non-Finns could invest in Finland and build factories or facilities on the condition they themselves settled in Finland and that a certain amount *always* benefited the locals.
This is how Finland is in joint first place with Denmark on the Corruption Index as the *least* corrupt country in the world.
Smaller countries should always make sure not to become mere pawns and puppets for the big corporations of large countries.
GM made business with Nazi Germany in the mid 1930's so business was wherever they found it...
Greed and stupidity kills everything!
"Outsourcing is good for the economy". Who made that statement?
Our corrupt politicians
A friend of mine swept floors there at GM in the eighties and was making 80 grand a year , full benefits always took voluntary lafyoff for three months every year , spent winters in Florida and made 80 percent of his wage on lay off 🤔😳🤷🏻♂️
Try getting a demorat to admit that!!
WOW!!!
Detroit is the USA’s canary in a coal mine
This is a great video about the decline of motor city. Please share and thank you. My friend ben howe did a great job.
The guy talking about Detroit not just needing cash. It has a new mindset, we have learned, we are rebuilding.
Heard the same thing 10 years ago.
Heard the same thing 20 years ago.
Heard the same thing 30 years ago.
It's still Detroit.
There is no reason any more to concentrate auto manufacturing in Detroit. So auto manufacturing has left Detroit, and will never return. GM still has its HQ in Detroit, but those white collar guys live in Grosse Pointe or in Oakland county. If Detroit is to resume growing, it will have to find a new economic direction. I think Detroit should contract to the area east of I94. The blighted buildings must be razed.
Most GM and Chrysler employees neither live nor work in Detroit. Hence bailing out GM and Chrysler in no way bailed out Detroit. If GM had gone under, the Poletown plant would have been sold to someone. Detroit would have lost the revenue resulting from the 1.2% city income tax on nonresident GM executives. Otherwise little would have changed.
I cannot fathom why GM built a plant by condemning a viable working class neighbourhood, rather than a half vacant dying neighbourhood, where the condemnation cost per acre would have been substantially lower.
Detroiters are violent and disrespect property, in ways that make it impossible to attract new business activity to Detroit. Until that changes, there is no hope of a turnaround.
Ever take a look at some of those "blighted" buildings? they would cost millions each if they were to be built new!! Thanks to private initiative, so such buildings were rescued before the demorats could wipe them out to make room for their cronies industrial parks!! Philladelphia went through Detroit's phase in the seventies and never recovered!!
@@manospetridis1935 Detroit has been very badly cursed since the 1967 race riot, from which it never recovered.
Great documentary! Thank you for the refreshing perspective!
Very well done, like the music, graphics, people selected for interview were interesting and knowledgeable. All around an outstanding job.
Next?
Our Volvo is still running and driving 20 years after we bought it, a GM car after 20 years is used to make aluminum foil
They killed that city and you know as well as me you cannot be resurrected from the dead, R.I.P. DETROIT WE WILL MISS YOU!
This documentary brushes over the facts with a big fat brush. I think it's impossible to truly comprehend why things happened the way they did. We all like to think everyone is "rational" but things happen in very complex dynamics and blaming unions is just too easy of a target.
Basically in simple terms, bad employer blames the employee.
Detroit is just an advanced case of what's happening in many of America's cities. Look at Chicago, Illinois as a whole, public pensions across the country massively underfunded, the dire conditions of rust belt cities in Ohio(Cleveland and Toledo). The collapse of public education, public health and the militarization of a brutal and violent police force are signs that should be of concern to everybody.
Excellent. Illustrates the real results of the kind of "Hope and Change" America is being dealt.
Last year, I made a music video dealing with just this topic. Such a horror story.
Excellent to see a free market explanation for Detroit's woes.
A well done documentary.
The UAW is now a share holder of the Auto Companies. So they don’t protect jobs, they protect their bottom lines.
The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Socialism works fine in Sweden. We gladly pay taxes into our welfare so we could have free school, healthcare and elderycare. That's a bit of your obamacare!
@@ljk7182 How free are you in Sweden?? How are the schools in Sweden?? How much is the tax you pay in % in Sweden?? Volvo left Sweden after what you praise became a reality, and other companies. How do you call that any "better?" When the Government is literally running your lives like pawns, when they have outlawed free speech🤔🤔🤔
LJK Sweden is free market, though, not socialist. Socialist government policies in some areas, but not the market.
Responsibility starts at the top. Sure, the unions may have gotten contracts too restrictive, but only because the management was so greedy in the first place. The workers didn't design or approve the crappy cars that wouldn't sell, and the guys at the top still walked away with golden parachute separation $$$$. If they can, so can the guys in the union.
I've travel the country extensively for most of my life for business and there are some very bad places. One thing these bad places have in common is they're "run" by Democrats. Detroit has a very ominous feel to it. Detroit has always been a tough place. But now days? I realize Fallujah Iraq is worse but Detroit is like being in such a city. A very ominous feel to it and reeks of danger. I've never seen businesses like those in Detriot. Solid steel buildings with no windows and heavy steal doors. Its the only place I've been robbed and the thieves were incredibly brazen about it. I was robbed in front of several witnesses, security cameras and guards didn't detour the thieves. I wasn't robbed personally but my equipment was stolen with me right there and witnesses all over the place. I called 911 and the didn't even bother to send a patrol car.
Another racist moron with blinders on.
I don't know about some of these Detroit citizens they interview on the streets, but hey, those are def Detroit-ers. I moved to Detroit from Rock Island, IL....and I think it's a great city. It has so much potential to be great again....so much creativity and great people here. Detroit, meaning the people of, has to do it themselves though...wash out all the courruption and you can start over.
Good review of the economic issues re unionism. Of course it leaves out how unionism and certain cultures did the same things to the schools and how harassment and crime drove the makers away, leaving the city destitute.
Cronyism doesn't escape Gods Eye. These corrosive behaviors will never go unpunished.
Conclusion: the problem was the workers and the unions. The magic word, "flexibility", means just less money to the workers and more money to Wall Street.
What I love about Detroit ! I love the history of Detroit , I love the buildings and the architecture. And I Love My Detroit teams the Red Wings ,Lions, and Tigers. I love Saturdays at the Eastern Market, or go to the top of the Ren Cen. Feel like taking the girl for a stroll go to the new Belle Isle or to really impress your Girl take her to the Detroit institute of arts. I love the small Mom and Pop (Motz Burgers ) or the Lafayette Coney Island. Detroit isn't as bad as people want you to believe. my Dad said if you look for trouble you'll find it no matter what City or Country you live in. Detroit I love ya !
This is all well and good. However the fundamental reason Detroit is bankrupt is that Black people as a group lack the human capital needed to support a 21st century major American city. It's something we don't like to discuss openly but that's the reality. Ford, GM and Chrysler could start relocating plants in Detroit and its doubtful a majority of Detroit's residents would even qualify for the jobs.
The camera footage of the blight and decay is awesome. I wish there was more shown here, shit is wicked and beautiful at the same time.
Excellent movie! I would love to purchase it.
There are many stories of anecdotal evidence on here, so i'll add another one. I've owned mostly American cars with one exception; a '91 Honda Civic. It was quite possibly the worst car I ever owned. It had crank windows, but one window didn't roll down, another door did not open, and the drivers electric shoulder seat belt mostly did not work. All minor things that I can live with. The worst part was how much oil it burned. Shortly after purchase (180k on the odo) I drove it ~300 miles round-trip. In that time it burned 4 quarts (1 gallon) of oil. That's as much as a 2-stroke. First and last time I buy a Honda. It was supposed to replace my '95 S-10 that took me to 278k before giving up the ghost.
Genius. Thank you Ben!!!!
How does this keep happening. They new what was happening and no one could stop it. It is and will continue to happen around the country. It doesn't have to happen, but it will.
These are the four main reasons for Detroit's demise:
1. Blacks keeping their bitter attitudes from the unjust treatment of the Jim Crow south thus reinforcing the black stereotype from the local white population.
2. Electing a leftist black racist and corrupt mayor named Coleman Young from 1974 to 1994, which destroyed race relations and business opportunities in the city.
3. Relying on one industry for far too long while other cities, like Pittsburgh, diversified their economies for the 21st century.
4. Becoming a one party city that caused a lack of diversity of thought and ideas to solve the city's problems.
Add The Unions who pushed wages up so that the car prices were noncompetitive.
Add. Failure to produce fuel saving cars like Europe and Japan.
You goof ball Detroit has a long racist history of stifling the black population. Not to mention the racist and unconstitutional practices by the FHA, read a book.
There is 1 reason actually.
DEMOCRATS
It's not just Detroit it's that way everywhere things happen right in front of people's eyes and they still can't see things for what they are
You think young black drug dealing hoodies or mafia types care?
This is an excellent film.
Detroit is the American dream come true.
The only measure of IQ in Detroit is how fast can you hold up a liquor store.
..or steel the copper pipes from abandoned homes
Demographics brought down Detroit.
Funny. “ at some point your going to have to cut retirement benefits “ when the hell will we realize this with government employees and teachers?
Very informative; thank you for sharing
7:13 That upside down American flag...
Which is S.O.S..,even us Canadians know that
Detroit was the focus of the high technology of the early 20th century, the Vehicle Valley (analogy to Silicon Valley).
Don't let the media get you down, son. Detroit will rise again!
Soon 😤
Im from the future, no way!
Detroit is just the beginning....
These workers priced themselves out of jobs!!!! Absolutely ridiculous the mindset of these union workers !!
Now look at it ,it’s in shambles !
I grew up in Detroit and as a kid I would always think to myself that one day ppl are going to stop buying cars so much.
Ahhh, the legacy of King Coleman: everything in Detroit that could be stolen has been. At this point, the suburbs have basically quarantined the city, with hopes and prayers that it will just die off as soon as possible. Pretty much the only people left there today are junkies and Welfare cases, who happen to be the bedrock of the "weirdest dynamic" the guy choked trying to describe in neutral terms at 36:25. The phrase he couldn't spit out is 'attitude of entitlement', which is the mindset that it's everybody else's fault that nobody is giving you enough of somebody else's money. Die, monster, die...
At 10.36 the image is of the Model 100E Ford Popular. A model built in the UK between 1959 and 1962.....
6:28 JEALOUS of chicago? Lol, how bad are things when you look up to chicago?
The government and the media. The media never questions and never reflects
But UAW workers, happy with their financial situation, indulge in buying the $800 iPhone, etc., continuing the US on the path of the short-term consumption fueled economy. Now Apple, which is pretty much a gadgety - fashion accessory company rather than a bona-fide computer company, has a market capitalization of 20 times that of General Motors.
YES! Thanks for mentioning the UAW instead of blaming Detroit all on black people!
Dad had a great career, grueling and frustrating, as a the lead of negotiations with the UAW. So I guess that was good. But it was a hell of a job!
Dad slept through Thanksgiving day and our family dinner because negotiations had to be settled that night. He got home at 5 AM completely exhausted.
As a kid, I hated the UAW for that. But I guess dad had a good job because of them. Now he and mom live in Naples, FL. Hell to the NO! to stay in that Hell Hole of the greater Detroit area.
Love Southern California ever since I moved here at 22 years old!!
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Robert Mack OH yes!
I wasn't that optimistic. But had a zillion reasons not to give Hillary the power to completely screw our national security.
The pundits assuming women would vote for her because Girl Power! Insulting!
Guess women can't be told who to vote for after all! The MSM can't tell men and women who to vote for anymore either.
That alone was an amazing victory!
Lumping the U.A.W. and corporate management together, with the lion's share of blame going to the workers, is misleading. Management, which continued to pay itself obscene bonuses even as the ship was sinking, was solely responsible for determining what kind of product would be made, how to structure debt, and negotiating labor contracts. The union is responsible to the workers; management was supposed to be responsible to the shareholders. They ignored that responsibility in favor of their own short-term interests.
I agree. Blaming the Union is total bullshit. This is a result of crony capitalism and superficial production without studying the markets' demand and supply. It's all mismanagement, bad decision, planning, superficial expectation and lack of rational market research and lack of business flexibility.
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This is the biggest bunch of ant-union bullshit I have ever seen. Was this movie written by Goldman Sachs? Are unions perfect? Hell no, but to say the union members just go to work to sit and get drunk and play cards for 30 years is just unfuckingbeleivable. I know, I'm a union member, come to work with me some time. This movie is basically a anti-union ant-labor screed that says big banks and investment houses are the smart guys that will save the universe. How did that work out for you in 2008 guys? How much money did the US Govt. give to Wall St. in 2008/9?!?!?!?! ENRON anyone? Not a fucking peep about that in this "documentary" about how Wall St. bankers would have plunged the WORLD into financial chaos if the Govt. hadn't bailed THEM out. This movie is so full of Fox News clips I think that the RNC must have financed the production. In the end of this documentary they even insinuated the same old bullshit routine of " Well, golly. If you unclean laborers would just basically go back to living in company shantytowns and live on subsistence wages like in the good ol' days so we could live in tax free Robber Baron splendor then everything will be ok." This isn't a subjective documentary but a anti-union propaganda piece. Bleeeh.
TRUMP "GOING TO LOVE UNIONS" VERY SOON!!! STAND BACK YOU MOTHER!
The management cannot make viable business decisions when the outcome could be a union strike. That's why many automakers have and are moving out of Detroit and the U.S. altogether.
The world changes as time goes by, You can't expect things to stay the same forever!!! Moral of the story
What's that got to do with corrupt unions and demorats and their cronies?!
U got it.
When google is blocking thumbs up something is wrong.
Today I drive a stock manual transmission Honda Civic SI. I bought it in 2000. So approaching 20 years with it. There are no squeaks, funny noises or any systemic problems. In all these years all I've done is the usual maintenance -- tires, battery, brake pads and fluids. I've only had to replace the radiator. It's still great to drive -- I simply love the hum of its VTEC engine. Unfortunately I won't consider an American car. After all the problems I had with several Fords including a brand spanking new Ford Taurus SHO ('92) I'm done with the American motor industry.
Not one word was uttered in this documentary about U.S. industrial policy and the shift of that policy over the last 34 years. Unions pushed too much and I'm sure there was corruption and other factors...but the manufacturing base had the rug ripped out from underneath it as well. This was probably the biggest factor of all and wasn't mentioned.
pimpingmrli is that why other car manufacturers are doing fine outside of detroit? toyota, honda all make cars in US, OUTSIDE of detroit.
Same thing happened in Australia. They continued to make the cars that the locals wanted even when imports got better and tariffs dropped. Sales dropped and they continued to make the big car with V8's and not a world car. People wanted SUV and smaller cars. Until the auto industry shut up shop and moved to Korea.
What are the remaining 700,000 people waiting for - a bomb to drop?
Pretty much sir it's over and done
Any thinking individual understands the downfall of a once great, prosperous, and vibrant city as Detroit, however, this reasonably short yet concise video exposes the positive and negative role(s) in which government - on both local and federal levels, unions, and the short-sightedness of the automobile manufacturers themselves was brought to its knees. If any still in doubt how the culmination occurred, watch with interest and learn. Thank you MSM...
Detroit made the soundtrack of the nation 50 years ago. Most of those people are dead now. Stop living in the past.
Check into the beginning of Brach's Candy Company failure in 1977.
I grew up in Detroit area . I moved out of there years ago . I hate it and don't miss it a bit. I wish they would have let them eat the bullet. people making 35 dollars an hour to push a couple buttons and turn some. screws . I work as an airline mechanic and have traveled and lived in many places. in San Antonio tx at the Toyota plant they make 12 an hr. which is deserving since it takes no skill. if you wanted to make a decent check you can work the overtime.
joseph surant SCAB
John Erkman union bum!
Sounds like you have a personal problem with your shitty paying job and job security. And if that guy at Toyota fucks up a days worth of trucks how much did he just cost Toyota but see you only see your piss poor situation that you can't find a way out of and are jealous for what other people fought for the biggest burden that the union GOT THE COMPANYIES TO AGREE TO were the pensions that where payed for by the companies. And lobbying is a political problem
Public policies contributed greatly. When you can buy a house with no money down you can just walk away without any loss.
i am in shock that Kwame Kilpatrick's name was not mentioned
I live in right to work state, unions are ran off here. My company fires anyone that joins a union. But in right to work states that's legal and great. We get better wages and vacation/even fathers get time off paid when child is born to help the mother
This what happens when ciitzens of Detroit elect Democratics run the city for the past sixty years. A ticking time bomb.
This has worked so far detroit is on the rise, the second they forget how they got to that point it will happen again. Keep spending and taxes down.
I'm pulling for Detroit.
And YES...the Unions are why the Big 3 can't compete.
We'll said , same problem in Australia
Tony C
Nope
This is a lesson for all sorts of countries, industries, workplaces, managements, unions and individuals. Milk the cow too much and it dies. I have seen this happen in one successful company that I worked for years ago, everyone knew the way things were heading when the orders slowed down except the unions - the end of a century of good profits and good pay.
The union killed this city.
Public employee unions are the toxic poison of Detroit, Flint, and most other older northern US cities. The Democratic Party wrecked these cities with their endless pandering to both crooked organized labor and the unmotivated urban poor.
GorgeGeorg oh horseshit . Corporate Greed and racism killed this city .
A well payed worker doesn't kill anything you dumbass
GorgeGeo
Crooked government officials and fat cat greedy company directirs n managers did the lion share of killing Detroit.
There was an old say "Do not buy an american car that was made on a Friday, because the workmanship was lousy". This came from a Union worker friend at GM
Mid week is the best to buy a built car
American car industry was "great" when Europe, China and Japan were at rubbles. There was simply too little competition now things are quite different. Get used to it!
We allowed them to peddle their junk and put our companies out of business. Later, they improved their quality.
There is no way no one saw this coming. Detroit has been shrinking since the 1950s. Every census has reported a smaller and smaller population every 10 years without interruption.
Unfairly vilifies the union. Was waiting for the part in which they talked about Rick Wagners compensation, while GM lost almost 100 billion under his watch he collected almost 100 million in executive compensation.
Anton Zuykov you are a dumbass that knows very little but thinks he knows a lot go back to watching the reading rainbow dumbass
A lot of clips are found in other documentaries such as "Requiem for a Detroit" - why?
Starting around 36:30, why didn't Thomas LaDuke just come out and say, "The people of Detroit will continue to vote for the idiot Democrats who were instrumental, along with the unions, in running the city into the ground for the last 6 decades."
I have been screaming those words for 5 years Buford
Never think that you can depend on a corporation for anything. They'll loot you for money and labor until they can get a better deal somewhere else, and then leave you a husk and tell you to get stuffed.