Pros
+Money +Benefits +Kaizen Shop +Union +Benefits +Retirement Plan + Did I mention the benefits? The culture is typical factory. Turn your mind off when you go in and turn it back on when you leave to preserve brain cells and maintain intellegence through repetitive menial tasks. If you can do that and still be a functioning human being after throwing away 40+ hours a week of your life as an organic machine, it's a decent living I guess.
Cons
-Supervisors -Union -Union negotiations -Rubber band hirings and layoffs -You are a completely expendable and replaceable human machine -Unfair wage disparity between old and new employees due to unionized politics The supervisors that I met were mostly chest-thumping aggressors due to their oppositional non-union status. If you are not part of the union as an assembly worker, God help you. Don't mess up once or seem inadequate at your assigned position within your first 90 days before being allowed into the UAW protective umbrella. I spent 2 months in the hiring process and scored just under the top 4 in my round of hiring to get a cushy company job off the line. They gave me 1 week with help on a position that the facilitator training me told me that multiple people had failed to be able to adequately perform prior to me. They gave me 3 days on my own and canned me while others from my training group were allowed to shift between jobs until they found the right fit. They waste so much money on a person without paying attention to what their actual strengths are. I shudder to think of how much money they have wasted and how many quality employees they have kicked to the curb because they don't know how to properly vet them. Oh, and they pay the old timers nearly twice what they pay the new guy next to him doing the same job because of union negotiation bullcrap and politics.