worker is very loyal.
He's very proud
when company does well.
- He's ashamed when it does poorly.
- Like now.
In japan, when production lags,
worker stays longer in factory.
Ok, overtime.
Time-and-a-half is standard.
They do not do it for pay.
They do it for company.
Yeah, but that's there, this is here.
Gentlemen, this is an american factory.
They won't go for that.
Is that how you feel,
that they'll never go for it?
There's one guy who can get 'em
to go for it, and you're looking at him.
You can change their attitude?
- If I can't, nobody can.
- Nobody can.
Hey, would you shut up?
Goddamn.
Ok. You guys have a problem, right?
I' m the answer man.
I can work this out and make
everybody happy, I always have.
Come on, you gotta give me a shot.
All right. We make
no more changes for now.
There you go. Yeah.
Hey, hon...
wanna stop off and get some
ice cream? Haagen-dazs.
Eat shit and die.
- You having your period?
- Stop the car.
How could you do that to me?
Telling me to shut up
in front of all those people!
I' m dealing with a delicate situation.
- So, what are you trying to do?
- I' m trying to save jobs.
The only job I heard
being threatened was yours.
They picked me for this job.
I didn't ask for it. They need me.
They need to know
where things stand.
They don't need a guy
who's trying to do it all by himself.
It'd be pretty nice to have a girlfriend
who's supportive of me.
Supportive? You mean some chick
who'll go along with everything you say.
- A parrot with tits.
- How can you bring Heather into this?
I wasn't thinking of Heather.
But apparently you were.
Oh, Audrey, come on.
Come on, Audrey!
- Morning!
- Where did you come from?
I' ve been swimming down below you
the whole time.
- Is there anyone else down there?
- There might be.
You know, boys,
now I' ve got you all together,
I' ve been thinking it over.
You know what we need?
An incentive programme.
We don't need an incentive programme.
We need faster workers.
We need a fish to bite your pecker off.
What's the most cars you guys
ever turned out in one month in japan?
Fifteen thousand.
All right, my men will make
15,000 cars next month.
But when they do,
you give them their old salaries
and you guarantee 'em full employment.
We got a deal?
- I' m not sure if...
- what have you got to lose?
All right. We strike a deal.
Fifteen thousand cars, not any less.
One less than fifteen thousand,
no raise, nothing.
I' m starting to like this ritual.
You know,
this is really hard for me to say,
but I got to tell you something, man.
The american worker
is really second best, I' m sorry.
The japanese can do everything
better, faster and longer.
You don't like to hear that, do you?
Neither do i, 'cause it's bullshit.
- Who's better than us?
- Nobody!
- Who?
- Nobody!
You bet your red, white and blue ass.
When they told me
no americans could ever match
the amount of cars
made by the japanese in one month...
...it took about a dozen guys
to hold my ass down.
I said, "not only will we make more cars
than you, when we break your record,
"I expect full employment here."
I' m talking about 200 more of our union
brothers and sisters back to work.
And like I told you months ago,
at $11.50 an hour.
Hey, Hunt, how many cars
for the record? How many?
How many?
Fifteen thousand cars in one month.
That's 15,000 in a month.
Did you say 15,000?
Are you joking, or what?
No, I' m not kidding.
Come on, we can do that.
Can't we?
Are you saying the japanese
are better than us?
- But 15,000, that's a lot of work.
- What if we come in just under 15,000?
We get nothing for all that work.
What kind of deal is that?
Excuse me, fellas, but the man's
not an idiot. He wouldn't let that happen.
Hey, of course not.
Even if we just come close,
we get something, right?
- All right.
- Like half a raise for 13,000?
For 13,000, yeah.
Why didn't you tell us that
from the