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Re: Ford GM Delphi layoffs were planned in July 05 and earlier... -
01-24-2006
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The Big 3 need to stop building junk! manufacture something that doesn't need $2k worth of repairs as soon as the warranty expires, they should go 100K with only maintance,tires, and normal ware out items shocks, brakes,belts and hoses. There in the position there in because, thats where they aligned them self,saving a nickle here and a dime there on parts, that are not worth a shit! Tom |
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"pushdamagicbuttondude" <wheezers555 (AT) verizonsucksass (DOT) com> wrote in message news:ebb88$43d5bebc$d1cc7b72$7422 (AT) snip (DOT) allthenewsgroups.com... July 23 2005: "More than a month ago, GM informed us that they would be eliminating another 25,000 additional hourly production worker jobs, accompanied by the closure of an unspecified number of production facilities, probably seven. Unless there is aid from Congress, which developed for Chrysler in the 1980s, we will witness the disappearance of one of the most powerful corporations of the 20th century. If GM goes under we will lose a priceless, technologically advanced machine-tool capability. The termination of 25% of operating capacity will terminate the incomes of some 500,000 individuals and suppliers of one form or another, a tribute to free trade and globalization. GM is disassembling its operations in the US and globalizing them. Already 45% of GM’s North American production capacity – some 15 plants – is unused or produces models that generate little or no profit. That means more closings are on the way. Then there is the pension plan that is underfunded by $45 billion and effects 1.2 million pensioners and $270 billion in junk bonds, which could eventually destroy the derivatives market. The carnage at GM has only just begun and will be followed by Ford. Not a pretty picture, but reality as we see it today and in the future. As long as corporate America offshores and outsources, the American economy will continue to collapse." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=18 September 03, 2005: "Detroit and Michigan is a zone of the living dead. Detroit represents the deliberately arranged decline of American manufacturing. The dangerous path of offshoring and outsourcing will lead not only to the destruction of the US economic base, but it will take down the rest of the world with it. During the past 55 years Detroit's population has fallen from 1.8 million to 900,000 in round figures. That is extraordinary deindustrialization. Ford's River Rouge plant once employed 100,000. Today, it is 6,000. Since 1970, it has lost 75% of its manufacturing and jobs. Whole areas of the city have been leveled. We see the same happening to a lesser degree in Buffalo, NY; Chicago; Cleveland; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and generally throughout Indiana, Ohio, Quebec and Ontario in Canada. Today the median household Detroit income is one-third lower than it was 30-years ago. About 50% of homeowners pay 40% or more of their income on the mortgage on their homes. Thirty percent of housing stock is in worse condition than normal and still takes 40% to 50% of income to either finance or pay rent on. The sad story goes on and we do not see it getting any better thanks to free trade and globalization." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=17 "Delphi, the nation’s largest auto supplier, is bankrupt. Production and 35,000 high paying American jobs are being moved to China. 12,000 retirees will receive one-third of their pensions from the PBGC, which is from us, the American taxpayer. You can thank General Motors for a failure that was planned 25 years ago. Delphi wants to cut the wages of 35,000 workers by two-thirds, or to $10.00 an hour to compete with China. Delphi employs 185,000 workers worldwide. ***** GM’s future liabilities will increase by $11 billion and in three years or less GM will file bankruptcy and their business will be sold off in segments to vulture investors. (...re-read that again till it sinks in) ***** In order to try to avoid bankruptcy Delphi wanted workers to take wages of $10 to $12 an hour instead of $26 to $30 that they make today. Delphi will also stop paying 4,000 workers who no longer have jobs to do. At the same time the company management increased the severance packages of its top 21 executives. Once again, corporate America cannot help itself. They are consumed with greed. We see a disgusting spectacle of the people at the top taking care of themselves and at the same time demanding extraordinary sacrifices from their hourly workers. Delphi was the 63rd largest US company with annual revenues of $28.62 billion. Our Congress and the American people just don’t get it. There economy is being ripped out from underneath them. Their entire society is being destroyed and no one seems to care. The answer is protective tariffs and quotas and a reversal of our national policy of free trade and globalization." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=13 DUMP BUSH AND THE GOP CORPORATE NEOCONS NOW !!! THEY ARE DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN. |
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:15:31 -0600, "twfsa" <twfuksa (AT) qwest (DOT) net> wrote: The Big 3 need to stop building junk! manufacture something that doesn't need $2k worth of repairs as soon as the warranty expires, they should go 100K with only maintance,tires, and normal ware out items shocks, brakes,belts and hoses. There in the position there in because, thats where they aligned them self,saving a nickle here and a dime there on parts, that are not worth a shit! Tom By your description it seems you are familiar with my Caddy. "pushdamagicbuttondude" <wheezers555 (AT) verizonsucksass (DOT) com> wrote in message news:ebb88$43d5bebc$d1cc7b72$7422 (AT) snip (DOT) allthenewsgroups.com... July 23 2005: "More than a month ago, GM informed us that they would be eliminating another 25,000 additional hourly production worker jobs, accompanied by the closure of an unspecified number of production facilities, probably seven. Unless there is aid from Congress, which developed for Chrysler in the 1980s, we will witness the disappearance of one of the most powerful corporations of the 20th century. If GM goes under we will lose a priceless, technologically advanced machine-tool capability. The termination of 25% of operating capacity will terminate the incomes of some 500,000 individuals and suppliers of one form or another, a tribute to free trade and globalization. GM is disassembling its operations in the US and globalizing them. Already 45% of GM's North American production capacity - some 15 plants - is unused or produces models that generate little or no profit. That means more closings are on the way. Then there is the pension plan that is underfunded by $45 billion and effects 1.2 million pensioners and $270 billion in junk bonds, which could eventually destroy the derivatives market. The carnage at GM has only just begun and will be followed by Ford. Not a pretty picture, but reality as we see it today and in the future. As long as corporate America offshores and outsources, the American economy will continue to collapse." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=18 September 03, 2005: "Detroit and Michigan is a zone of the living dead. Detroit represents the deliberately arranged decline of American manufacturing. The dangerous path of offshoring and outsourcing will lead not only to the destruction of the US economic base, but it will take down the rest of the world with it. During the past 55 years Detroit's population has fallen from 1.8 million to 900,000 in round figures. That is extraordinary deindustrialization. Ford's River Rouge plant once employed 100,000. Today, it is 6,000. Since 1970, it has lost 75% of its manufacturing and jobs. Whole areas of the city have been leveled. We see the same happening to a lesser degree in Buffalo, NY; Chicago; Cleveland; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and generally throughout Indiana, Ohio, Quebec and Ontario in Canada. Today the median household Detroit income is one-third lower than it was 30-years ago. About 50% of homeowners pay 40% or more of their income on the mortgage on their homes. Thirty percent of housing stock is in worse condition than normal and still takes 40% to 50% of income to either finance or pay rent on. The sad story goes on and we do not see it getting any better thanks to free trade and globalization." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=17 "Delphi, the nation's largest auto supplier, is bankrupt. Production and 35,000 high paying American jobs are being moved to China. 12,000 retirees will receive one-third of their pensions from the PBGC, which is from us, the American taxpayer. You can thank General Motors for a failure that was planned 25 years ago. Delphi wants to cut the wages of 35,000 workers by two-thirds, or to $10.00 an hour to compete with China. Delphi employs 185,000 workers worldwide. ***** GM's future liabilities will increase by $11 billion and in three years or less GM will file bankruptcy and their business will be sold off in segments to vulture investors. (...re-read that again till it sinks in) ***** In order to try to avoid bankruptcy Delphi wanted workers to take wages of $10 to $12 an hour instead of $26 to $30 that they make today. Delphi will also stop paying 4,000 workers who no longer have jobs to do. At the same time the company management increased the severance packages of its top 21 executives. Once again, corporate America cannot help itself. They are consumed with greed. We see a disgusting spectacle of the people at the top taking care of themselves and at the same time demanding extraordinary sacrifices from their hourly workers. Delphi was the 63rd largest US company with annual revenues of $28.62 billion. Our Congress and the American people just don't get it. There economy is being ripped out from underneath them. Their entire society is being destroyed and no one seems to care. The answer is protective tariffs and quotas and a reversal of our national policy of free trade and globalization." http://www.theinternationalforecaste....php?Offset=13 DUMP BUSH AND THE GOP CORPORATE NEOCONS NOW !!! THEY ARE DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN. |
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CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote: According to your theory the Toyota and Honda workers must have horrible working conditions and lousy compensation as they are not unionized in the US. Nothing could be further from the truth. From what I understand it is extremely difficult to get a job in one of their plants. They don't have a lot of turnover, and they get a lot of applicants when positions are available. Toyota lineworkers are some of the highest paid in the industry. This shouldn't be possible operating under your theory. |
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The ONLY Toyota workers that are well paid and receiving decent benefits are those that work in the union GM/Toyota plant in California. How long do you think American workers, in low wage plants like those of Toyota and Honda, will sit back and watch all of those profit going to Japan tax tree? There is a movement afoot, as we speak, among Honda workers in Ohio to unionize.  mike hunt |
Is there some new news on this? The Unions have tried to organize
Honda's Ohio plants for many years and the past efforts all went down in
flames.
Such as in 1999:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/st...13/story7.html
Do you have any more recent information showing that something is
different now?
John
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Mike Hunter wrote: The ONLY Toyota workers that are well paid and receiving decent benefits are those that work in the union GM/Toyota plant in California. How long do you think American workers, in low wage plants like those of Toyota and Honda, will sit back and watch all of those profit going to Japan tax tree? There is a movement afoot, as we speak, among Honda workers in Ohio to unionize. mike hunt Is there some new news on this? The Unions have tried to organize Honda's Ohio plants for many years and the past efforts all went down in flames. Such as in 1999: http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/st...13/story7.html Do you have any more recent information showing that something is different now? John |
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