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Originally Posted by Gothefalcon
The Car industry.... and many more industries... are propped up by Govt. all over the world ! The only difference is, elsewhere they see it as an investment in the Country's future, and recognize that the skills, technology, trickle down/follow on investment & returns, etc, and to some extent, a sense of national pride, is all tied up within that initial investment.
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You are quite correct. The 2 problems we had in the Australian market however were, our relatively small population & the high wages of the lower skilled workers.
Of all of the countries worldwide which design & manufacture cars from the ground up (as Ford & Holden did) our population was by far the smallest. If we had 50-60 million people it would be a different story.
We always had a problem with the unions wanting too much. I know many skilled tradies who would love the wages some of these factory assembly workers were getting.
Our wage scales here are all out of kilter, the rot began in the 70s. Not much we can do now, the damage is done.
Wages should be skilled based, not allotted by who has the strongest union.
Dr Terry