[ANDY M]

Sam, Honda is to Columbus what Ford is to Dearborn.
Honda makes cars, motorcycles, engines and components in non-union plants in a state that is strongly pro-union.
The workers in the Marysville assembly plant have rejected the UAW repeatedly since the plant was built in the early '80s. They are fiercly loyal.
I have a freind who is an engineer, left Ford, moved here and at 65 still works for Honda, (and still out runs his younger co-workers). He will retire when he spontainiously combusts and they have to sweep his ashes out from under his desk. OK with Honda.
The Asian car makers learned in the '70s that quality must be engineered into the build, not inspected as was the Big 3 model. One reason why labor costs were high.
They also took the sugestions from the factory floor, listened to the people who were actually building the cars, and became more effiecent and built better cars. The Honda Accord and Civic are the quality standards of the industry.