Date:         Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:12:52 -0500
Reply-To:     arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM
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From:         Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Shoddy German Workmanship / Racism (No VW content)
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
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German worker moral is low for one reason:  The Turks (and other imported
labour) works cheaper that the German worker does.  Their unions have pushed and
pushed until the German companies have virtually no choice but to hire someone
other than a German to keep the factories running.  A German worker, I've been
told, get something like 6 weeks vacation per year, 30 hour work weeks (that's
considered full time), and a ton of other benefits that pale to the American
labour standard.

FWIW, I have a aunt that survived WW II and immigrated to the US as a German
refugee (displaced person).  To this day, she truly believes that the
persecution of the Jews (and the Slovaks, Gypsies, Poles, Africans, and myriad
others), never happened.  Period.  (For the record, I do not subscribe to her
belief.  I'm just pointing out that there are older Germans that can not discern
the truth from the propaganda of their youth.)

Alan Bosch
Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
Proud of my Tutonic heritage, if not their history...