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Report: Toyota to end Calif. joint venture with GM (another Obama success story)
AP on Mercury News ^
| 7/23/09
| AP
Posted on 07/23/2009 9:07:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Doing my schadenfreude dance. I am sorry to see CA suffer but I think it’s going to take a lot worse to wake up the voters in that banana republic.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:26:43 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: papasmurf
“Calling Roger Penske...”
Penske is too smart to want to deal with UAW workers. He prefers genuine workers in the non-union South.
To: papasmurf
No way Penske would take over a plant in forced-unionization California.
In fact, no way anyone with a clue would set up a plant in a forced-unionization state to build *anything* at this point.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:31:34 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: kittymyrib
Trust me, if Penske goes in there, he’ll have HIS way. Neither the Gov. Motors, the State, nor the unions are in a position to bargain right now.
Besides, if Toyota and GM close it down, it’s a whole new ballgame for Penske Saturn.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:32:08 AM PDT
by
papasmurf
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To: papasmurf
Why? Closing this plant doesn’t affect Saturn in any way.
Also, California would have to totally change much of their labor code to get rid of their mandated unionization. Pretty much anyone opening an auto plant in CA *has* to have the UAW there. Good luck with that idea when they can’t even agree on how to balance the budget.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:34:08 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
Penske bought Saturn, and he’s looking for places to manufacture them. He is already in talks with foreigners, and looking at some locations in the South East.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:35:50 AM PDT
by
papasmurf
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To: papasmurf
There is no way in hell that he would take over this plant.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:38:59 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: ßuddaßudd
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:41:49 AM PDT
by
GeronL
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To: Spktyr
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:42:43 AM PDT
by
papasmurf
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To: NormsRevenge
This is exactly what I wanted Toyota to do when I heard GM was backing out of that venture.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:42:45 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
To: papasmurf
What part of “California is a mandatory-union state” did you not get? That’s why nobody else has opened a car plant in CA in decades. The legislature there will *never* change the law - look at all the power the unions wield there!
Penske is not stupid. He won’t deal with the UAW.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:44:51 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Beagle8U
“Anyone that thought Toyota was going to operate a UAW plant without GM was dreaming.”
The workers can always apply for one of Obama’s RED PILLS!
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:45:14 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
To: NormsRevenge
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Geo-Prizm-Hatch.jpg)
Toyota's involvement was the only thing that made this car worth buying.
To: ConservativeMind
There are about to be meetings around the plant in a few minutes. Going to be an interesting day.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:46:56 AM PDT
by
Rev DMV
To: papasmurf
If anything, root for Penske to buy the defunct Ford plant in Atlanta.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:49:37 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: tcrlaf
Maybe they can get a job at Chrysler?...lol
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:53:33 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
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To: Republic
I liked the old GM better myself. That one that used to have balls. GM has been a hideously mismanaged company for years. The results speak for themselves.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:56:18 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
To: Spktyr
There is no law in Cali. declaring unions mandatory.
No, Penske isn’t stupid, that’s why wherever he goes, whatever he does, he gets his terms or he takes his ball and goes somehwere else.
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:58:09 AM PDT
by
papasmurf
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Perhaps I should say the REALLY OLD GM that I worked for way back when shocks were my business at DELCO in Dayton and we had a fine system going...the best!
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posted on
07/23/2009 9:58:52 AM PDT
by
Republic
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To: Republic
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posted on
07/23/2009 10:00:28 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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