when they deregulated ma bell all of the other companies that popped up created a little boom for us as the AT&T and the old Illinois Bell and Ameritech seitching stations had to be retrofitting for the new companies. I did a lot of work at those places.
Auto workers are on their way to extinction. The automation that is available and developing is going to put 75% of them out of a job. New state of the art facilities will be built here or elsewhere and will cut down on a ton of waste and manpower. Electric and other new fuel sources are going to become more the norm.