{"id":9670,"date":"2008-11-19T05:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T05:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/what_is_wrong_with_this_picture\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T05:51:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T05:51:28","slug":"what_is_wrong_with_this_picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9670","title":{"rendered":"What is wrong with this Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 2005:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.&#8217;s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working &#8212; on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just go in and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Otherwise, I&#8217;ve just sat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers and Delphi Corp. as part of an extraordinary job security agreement with the United Auto Workers union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2005\/autosinsider\/0510\/17\/A01-351179.htm\">Read it all<\/a> and note especially this section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By making it so expensive to keep paying idled workers, the UAW thought Detroit automakers would avoid layoffs. By discouraging layoffs, the union thought it could prevent outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p><b>That strategy has worked but at the expense of the domestic auto industry&#8217;s long-term viability<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2005: Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.&#8217;s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working &#8212; on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9670\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}