BMW Layoffs Exemplify Corporate Tyranny

By all accounts, BMW's parts distribution warehouse in Ontario was one of the jewels of the company's system.

Supplying dealer service departments throughout Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, it received gold medals from BMW for its efficiency and employed several of the top-ranked workers in the country. In the roughly 40 years its workers had been represented by the Teamsters union, there had never been a labor stoppage.