Posted on 05/16/2006 2:16:39 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
So, buy American?
Just making cars the domestic automakers are too stupid and union-strung to make.
American auto manufacturers had the chance to learn Deming and reject unions, but failed at both. It's time to pay the piper.
LOLOLOLOLOL
I noted that with wry amusement, the Camry I just purchased is more an American car than my Lincoln Grand Marquis is.
I'd like to see them buy the Ford plant that just closed in St. Louis.
Honda builds very reliable, conservatively styled, vehicles and that appeals to a lot of consumers. Honda has reaped the rewards of building a product that consumers want to purchase.
Ahem...the not-so Big Three.
Toyota was able to make a success of the Fremont, California GM Plant once they took over management of that facility in the early 1980's. They even kept the UAW.
Amazing what good management can do.
DETROIT -- United Auto Workers members have voted to authorize a strike against auto supplier Delphi Corp. -- a move that could threaten already tense wage negotiations between the two sides.
The union said more than 95 percent of members who voted approved the strike authorization. The measure allows UAW to call a strike against Delphi if it feels one is needed.
The UAW is the largest of Delphi's six unions. It represents 24,000 of the company's 33,000 U.S. hourly workers.
A strike at Delphi, which has Indiana operations in Kokomo and Anderson, could harm several automakers who depend on its parts. A strike also could paralyze General Motors, which could lose up to $130 million a day in such an event, according to analysts.
The strike votes give Delphi's unions more weight in their ongoing wage negotiations with the company. Delphi, which filed for bankruptcy protection in October, has proposed cutting its U.S. hourly workers' wages from $27 an hour to $16.50 an hour, or as low as $12.50 an hour if GM doesn't agree to supplement those wages.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All
Doing jobs, Japanese don't want to do
On an auto forum that I frequent we call them the big 2 1/2.
Low tax Red States get ALL the jobs. The Wall Street Journal cites astonishing research on this today. High tax Blue States grow NOTHING except rich lawyers and democrat politicos.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008350
Domestic automakers depended on loyalty from loyal Americans --- really Republicans to support them.
It worked, I bought Big 3, even though the cars/trucks were inferior (and I buy lots of trucks for my Co -- 50+ new fleet trucks every year, sometimes 100). Always Ford or Chevy (never really dodge). Had some Nissan Titans.
With the UAW supporting Democrats, they've lost my loyalty.
I suspect the same can be same with many Republicans.
Next year: 50 Nissan Titans.
Honda is in business to make a profit and the profits go to the Japanese. This is the behavior of a 3rd world nation
One of my most favorite work weeks of my career was in a Deming seminar.
My favorite quote was, "If you can recognize a problem, you know how to fix it. If you do not fix it, you are 100% wrong. If you try to fix it, your odds improve to at least 50%".
There are a number of the remaining auto suppliers in Southern California making the move to Nashville too....I guess Tenessee didnt stop with Nissan HQ.
Those Nissan profits go to the Japanese. The American tradition is to keep profits in America
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