For instance, Pentagon estimators based their F-35 projections on how similar fighter programs have fared in the past, and thus ignored the various efficiency features and sustainment enablers built into F-35 that did not exist in earlier programs.
The union has refused to give Chrysler the same health care concessions it gave General Motors and Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ), for instance, because of the deep pockets of its German parent company.