Saturday, January 13, 2007
Strangling Detroit
An interesting post on the differences between US and Japanese car operations in North America.
GM pays $31.35 an hour. Toyota pays $27 an hour. Not such a big difference. But--thanks in part to union work rules that prevent the thousands of little changes that boost productivity--it takes GM, on average, 34.3 hours to build a car, while it takes Toyota only 27.9 hours.






