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Replying to: cadillacmike (Jul 01, 2009 9:58 am)
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Replying to: cadillacmike (Jul 01, 2009 9:58 am) Remember that Roadburner was replying to Lemko's assertion that every German car is hours away from a breakdown that will bankrupt its owner.
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Replying to: jimbres (Jul 01, 2009 10:27 am) 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jul 01, 2009 10:04 am) Exactly. |
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Has this thread died?? Anyway - Am I the one who's outraged that GM emerged from BK with the UAW holding a contract that maintains the same wages/benefits for all existing employees? What a joke! Concessions were for retirees/new hires only! This time next year GM will need another $50 billion to survive though we the sheeple may not hear about it. It's a recipe for failure and incredible beyond belief. TARP will have to fund GM for the next 2-3 years at a minimum.
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Replying to: dodgeman07 (Jul 12, 2009 9:47 pm) Have any of the UAW shops re-opened since the big shut down? The only gotta have GM is the Camaro and it is built in Canada, by the much more pragmatic CAW Union.
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topic had died, but we just needed to give th situation time to "simmer" before more UAW crap came "down the pipe", so to speak... I truly wonder if what Obama did for the UAW, will backfire at some point...he has obviously extended the Jobs Bank to include the entire remaining UAW, since I wonder who, if anybody is making cars right now...and, if someone is, who is buying them???...who is lending money to buy them??? And, will anybody feel comfortable buying from companies that are bankrupt, regardless of whether the gov't stands behind a GM warranty or not??? A simple history lesson...the UAW caused quality to drop like a rock for over 2 decades...that loss of quality caused buyers to desert the Big 3 in droves...that spiraled into the bankruptcy of GM and C, and probably soon Ford...that causes more buyers to shift to the "imports"...that drives the Big 3 (for lack of a better name) even smaller...and so on, and so on... Proper history will record that the UAW killed the American auto industry...revisionist, politically correct history will record that buyers, for no reason, deserted the Big 3 for the imports, and no one, to this day, knows why... |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jul 13, 2009 8:35 am) I would say the smart UAW people are getting some training for another unrelated field. The auto industry as we know it will never return. The peak sales for automobiles is past. Ford wisely moved their big sellers to Mexico. Much less chance of them shutting down a factory building a hot seller like the UAW did last year to GM. Does GM have any hot sellers built by UAW. If so they need to move the factory before it is too late. |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jul 13, 2009 8:35 am) I'm flying Delta in a couple of months. They've been out of banko for, oh, two years now? They absorbed some union employees when they took over Northwest.
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jul 13, 2009 8:35 am) I truly wonder if what Obama did for the UAW, will backfire at some point... /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ It's highly likely. Obama has a vested interest in their success through 2012. After that it's curtains. |
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