Posted on 11/21/2005 7:00:40 AM PST by traumer
Union Yes.
Good by Detroit - hello China... !
wto,nafta
search - I did "30,000"
No way the demigods in congress who harassed the profitable oil biz will investigate how their laws and regs are impacting the auto biz and its employees investigating, perhaps, how anticompetitive union practices will force auto parts companies out of the country rather than allowing them to adapt to changing conditions.
We have two operating assembly plants is Lansing now,
the new Cadillac plant which just opened 3-4 years ago.
Also small plant that makes specialty cars like the Chevy SSR
We have another assembly plant that is currently under construction with 2006 production scheduled
So possibly the small SSR plant.
We do have a parts plant also.....hmmmmmm I wonder but I imagine its the small plant
Saturn plant is in Spring Hill
Look for the Union label............
Union death wish materializes.
They're giving people plenty of notice if the plants won't be closed until 2007. Perhaps some can move to the non-union plants that are operating in the south.
"Good by Detroit - hello China... !"
I expected the gleeful giggles on this thread.
I hope you all remain gleeful and continue giggling when the economy slows significantly.
Or would you have me believe that GM can cut 30k jobs, and we can have the cascading effects of other jobs lost, and it's GOOD for the economy?
Some of you are as anti-American as the folks at DU.
Unions are totally to blame, management is the good guys, always. Lock the doors and let the Chinese do it for 80 cents an hour.
"Unions are totally to blame, management is the good guys, always."
Amazing how people see this, isn't it?
No accountability for the morons who agreed to stupid union demands.
No recognition that with stupid management, doesn't matter what you pay the workers, they will eventually be back where they are now.
I used to stongly favor GM cars. It's a shame, I doubt I'll ever buy another.
Gold star for you!
Regardless none of us want to see people suffer... ( well unless it is clinton and their ilk) But the same can be said every time the union got an agreement to pay unskilled labor 40-50 dollars and hour. They were the gleeful ones. They couldn't give a crap if they pushed the cost of owning a vehicle up 5 fold over the last 20 years. It was a false economy that they were paying into and they cut their own throats by driving the costs up so much that the corps look international for cheap labor.
What do union haters make of that?
Those 30,000 jobs will translate into 500,000 by the time the dust settles. It's going to be a bumpy ride and Ford won't announce it's restructuring until January.
Don't try logic with some of these people. It just doesn't work. They can't see beyond their viseral hatred.
Just like DU'ers.
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