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I heard a story on NPR about a black man who played the part of a slave and said he couldn't count the number of times a white child would ask his parents to buy him so they could set them free. Any experience with this?

I worked at a Chrysler Transmission machining and assembly plant for 13 years, and left because of the management. Decisions are made to cover YOUR ass and not for the good of the plant. We would have oil leaks that leaked $1200 a day in a specialized lube that would not get fixed for months because the maintenance supervisor did not want to use one of his "man hours" to fix it. The Union actually tried to get management to implement a system to force supervisors to do this. If a worker got his rate on a machine that was a critical operation, i.e.-assembly and 400+ people would be aidle until the parts arrived, the supervisor would pull him off after he hit his number for the shift instead of banking parts for the next shift. Next shift would come in with 0 bank parts(Thanks to the Big 3 adopting Just In Time from Toyota). Managers were told daily by their managers that they could be fired at any time. Moral was horrible, and any manager who valued his life/job satisfaction left. People would sing a different tune about the Union if they had experienced what I did.