Lin Johnson said goodbye to Dedwadai and the others, got on the plane and waited for the Gulfstream to take off into the stratosphere, and after the blonde re-unbuckled the two people's seat belts, he immediately asked Leon: "AMC doesn't have a strong union, a lawless villain like the Detroit UAW!" ”

Leon shook his head and said: "The American automobile company was founded in the fifties, and its automobile union, although not very strong, still has some influence in the factory. Because AMC has a long-term problem of unpaid wages, some of the workers in the AMC workshop have been spearheaded by the trade unions to force the directors to compromise. Although the factory did not have actual evidence, or did not suppress the union due to business pressure, there were always conflicts between the two sides. ”

Lin Qiangsheng frowned and said: "That is to say, the trade unions here do not have too good means, in fact, they do not have the strength to talk to the manufacturers, and they have not taken a righteous and bright lawsuit with AMC, but have only taken extremely efficient sabotage actions, which shows that the strength of the trade union of this factory is very weak, and it has almost no impact on the management of the enterprise!" ”

Leon nodded and said, "You're right, the American Automobile Union has focused all its attention on Detroit and fighting against the three major auto giants, and they can't take care of it anywhere else!" ”

He smiled: "Besides, AMC is so poor, those union masters of the UAW naturally understand that there is no oil and water here!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng stretched his brows and said, "It's best that they are only in Detroit forever, so they don't come out to harm people!" Otherwise, I have to find a way to deal with them, my factory doesn't need such a strong third-party force to exist! ”

Contrary to the non-existent trade unions in China, the American trade unions are very strong and have a lot of means, if AMC's trade unions are very strong, Lin Qiangsheng will have to consider whether to continue to buy this company.

For 70 years. Detroit's Big Three and the United Auto Workers (UAW) are constantly battling each other, and both sides are desperate to defeat each other, so the Big Three don't have much energy to focus on their own customers or to defuse the rise of rivals across the ocean, and when the oil crisis hit in the early '70s, they suddenly knocked the three auto giants out of the way, making small and medium-sized cars they lacked the technology. The market was lost all of a sudden, and Japanese cars took advantage of the situation and flooded into the United States in large numbers.

The U.S. National Workers' Relations Act of 1935 stipulates that it is illegal for any company to get rid of the union, which gives the U.S. union legal support, and the UAW's way of defending its rights has also moved from the spontaneous violence of workers into the legal process. The sympathy of the traditional society, and the participation of the barristers, have made the UAW more and more like a fish in water.

And the constant compromises of the Big Three have also laid a curse for themselves. UAW has even evolved into a powerful organization that provides workers with iron rice bowls, and it provides black jobs for workers. Society. will be like protection, thus forcing a large number of benefits from the company, and even becoming the largest shareholder of the corporate pension fund.

In more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, the union pension fund is the largest shareholder, and the union pension fund can ask the company's management to change labor relations through its status as a shareholder, and require the company's behavior to meet labor standards such as SA8000. If the company refuses to change. Union pension funds may threaten to sell company shares or file shareholder lawsuits.

In addition to this, the UAW also seeks "spokespersons" for political parties by shelling out large sums of money. Let these spokespeople fight for the interests of the auto union, and even canvass for the president of the United States.

However, it should be noted that the automobile union is not for the interests of all employees, as many people think, on the contrary, it is only for union members. Naturally, companies are more willing to use non-union members for the same jobs, and UAW has taken a strong form of resistance. Forcing enterprises not to replace trade union members with non-union members, and even resorting to violent means at critical moments!

UAW has gradually become the "living cancer" of the U.S. auto industry, and the high welfare investment has become a burden for the Big Three, who must unconditionally pay full wages for idle employees, and the auto union has also tried to prevent companies from making low-cost overseas purchases. Ford's auto parts procurement in China had to be done in secret, and Ford had even begged the Chinese media not to report on it.

The struggle between the two sides is really fierce, so in the development of enterprises in the United States, it is necessary to pay attention to the thorn of the trade union, and it is not possible to solve the problem by investing money.

But during this period, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and other Japanese car series entered the United States, and they seemed to hate the expansion of the auto union very much, and they also had a good way to deal with UAW!

In the seventies and eighties, foreign car companies in Europe and Japan entered the United States to set up factories, Europeans and Japanese did not buy UAW, Toyota believed that without unions, the company could develop better, Nissan said that they wanted the company to communicate directly with employees without the intervention of a third party, and Honda has been more vehemently rejecting UAW's various efforts.

It is a foreign company, and Lin Qiangsheng seems to have found a way to solve the automobile union!

He decided to hire a large number of Chinese employees after taking over AMC, American auto companies can provide a large number of jobs for blacks, but will not provide so many jobs for Chinese, Chinese employees are easy to manage, willing to cooperate, and it is certainly easier for Americans to accept the company system than American whites and blacks, so that they can well resist the expansion of UAW to the enterprise, and at the same time, a large number of Chinese workers should also do a good job of building public opinion, otherwise the first to jump out against it is not the auto union, but the angry blacks!

At the same time as the two companies began to negotiate, the American media also began to pay attention to the acquisition case, and gave overwhelming reports, and the automobile media also suddenly became lively, "Saturn Motor Company acquires American Automobile Company", "The largest acquisition of the United States this year", and the Chinese media in the United States also followed up, "Mr. Lin Johnson, a famous Chinese leader and tycoon, shows his glory to the American automobile industry" and "The pride of the Chinese in the industry" and other articles are full of Chinese media in the United States. Let the long-suppressed Chinese society in the United States boil for the first time!

The world's largest circulation automotive magazine, American Car Journal, which has millions of loyal readers and fans, also published an article about the acquisition, and commented that the acquisition was the most interesting event in the American auto industry, and they also humored it in their usual style, "Lin Johnson, the behind-the-scenes boss of Saturn Motor Company, finally couldn't help but want to make a big difference in the American car market and promote his cosplay models to the American people. I don't know which famous car company will be unlucky this time! ”

But the magazine also praised the young company Saturn Motor Company, gave a technical analysis of the luxury business models launched by the company, and predicted that this model will be able to form a large new class of automobile markets in the future, and gave a very welcoming attitude to the combination of Saturn and AMC, optimistically predicting that the consistent style of the boss behind the scenes, Lin Johnson, will definitely invest heavily after the acquisition of the company, and his investment projects rarely fail precedent!

At this time, the famous popular newspaper "USA Today" in the United States, which is a national comprehensive newspaper, contains all-encompassing content, it reported a shocking news to the automobile market when the New York Auto Show was about to open, AMC's Cherokee model has serious quality defects, it is very easy to roll over when making sharp turns, and this defect has been confirmed by testers, the Cherokee design center of gravity is too high, it is easier to overturn than similar models, this news immediately detonated the automobile market, Because tens of thousands of consumers have already purchased Cherokee models, they immediately called AMC, and some even asked the factory to activate the recall program, which even cast a shadow on the acquisition negotiations between Saturn Motors and AMC! (To be continued.) )