Massive Strikes at DaimlerChrysler

Deutche Welle ^ | 7/15/2004 | A.N.Other

[no_problema]

there was an article in the paper recently stating that union labor, health care, and so-called "legacy costs" amount to $7,500.00 of a new ford.

legacy costs are the health care and retirement of retired workers.

american union auto workers are over-paid.

[RobbyS]

Auslandarbeitsenden

Sehr gut!

[Stallone]

SCHADENFREUDE

Gerhard Schroder is Jacques Chirac-ass without the courage.

Let the weasels enjoy their one-world utopia!

[RobbyS]

Are you factoring in the white collar and other management costs? And what about the advertising costs?

[BipolarBob]

It's a free country my friend. Don't want to pay for a new Ford? Don't buy one.

[glorgau]

Germans and Torchlight parades. I wonder if they were singing the Horst Wessel song while marching East to Nuremburg.

It all just brings a tear to my eye. :-)

[McGavin999]

Yeah, that'll change their mind, stop working. It'll change their mind to moving ALL their production facilities out of Germany.

[no_problema]

you're missing the point. it's economics.

wages in germany are the highest in the world.

this will change.

the chinese will welcome this german strike.

[TMSuchman]

My heart bleeds violet cougar urine for auto workers! They all are over paid, UNapperative of their jobs, nitwits! But I guess that is what you get when you let euro-twits [read as commies!] loose. Why else would you rent your job from someone who does not give 2 cents for you or your job, except to shake you down everypay day!
If I was running a major auto car company, I get rid of all the union a$$holes and get people who want to work!

[EQAndyBuzz]

You ask and get ask and get ask and get. Then you are asked to give, you cry foul.

[fooman]

Why threaten, just do. Dont hire anymore in germany period and make all new models outside the country. Let attrition take down the workforce. You are bound to get at least 5% per year.


Michelin did this when france threatened to nationalize the company. The company is run by conservative catholics out of Switzerland...

[antiRepublicrat]

Last year the auto unions lost big in a battle in the East, seeing much of their political clout dissolve in an instant as workers decided they'd rather have less pay and perks than be Arbeitslos in an area with 20%+ unemployment (especially since they'd just cut those benefits). I'm suprised they're daring to try this again. If they lose this one their reign over Germany's economy is finished -- good riddance.

[BipolarBob]

it's economics.

wages in germany are the highest in the world.
I got the point. I agree it's about economics-not unions. With a global market, labor prices will tend to equalize. Some countries will go up and others (like Germany) will go down.

[beelzepug]

"Tens of thousands of employees of...DaimlerChrysler are expected to down tools..."

Well, that's pretty hard to swallow.

[Carton boy]

It sounds like someone is a Little mad that he,s not a union man?

[jriemer]

Here's a silverlining:
Fewer male German tourists wearing speedos on FL beaches this year!

[applemac_g4]

>Union or not, you can't compete with .20 cent/hr labor. You
>can't work for that, can you?

Sure you can Bob. You're being a luddite in insisting that we Americans live in weather-proof houses with indoor plumbing and running water.

If the American worker would only agree to place his/her children in the workforce at age 13, live in a tent, and eat every meal off the McDonald's 99 cent value menu...$0.20 is a living wage.

[applemac_g4]

Auslanderarbeitsenden.

I think that should be the "official" word, since the emphasis is then placed on the workers over seas not the overseas location. And neocon arguments to the contrary, it is labor rates that is advancing this particular plague around the world.