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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 29, 2008 7:09 am) A wife of a very good friend of mine is a highly paid software developer for a firm out of SanFran. She told me she's required to use Indian software engineers to debug software and they're terrible. She said when the code comes back from the Indian debugers, she'll still find more bugs in a few days than the Indian engineers found after a week. The difference is she makes more in a day than a whole team of Indian software engineers probably do in a week. IMO, Chinese and Indian engineering schools are putting out more quantity than quality. That said, we can't sit back and not worry about keeping our lead in technology. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 29, 2008 7:54 am) Thats fantastic, now he must finish. Be sure to put the monkey on his back to do well. Freshmen need to be inspired and given a heads up on what to be expect. As I recall at MIT the freshmen were allowed to exclude their first years grades from their GPA. If they are told the difference between high school and college, they can hit the ground running. |
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Replying to: dieselone (Dec 29, 2008 6:07 am) These days, thats better than sex. Well almost.
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If you have a country subsidizing an industry and therefore stealing jobs/work from the more efficient industry, your [sic] not doing the consumer any favors either. As we speak folks out there are playing with the supply and demand for all sorts of goods and services. Laissez faire has become an abstract at best. Sorry, DD, but this doesn't make sense. You're dancing around the fact that tariffs derive whatever effectiveness they have by punishing customers for making what tariff supporters consider to be wrong choices. You're also ignoring the fact that an industry protected from outside competition by tariffs has less incentive to make the investments & changes needed to stay competitive. In the long run, tariffs hurt more than they help. And even if you believe that tariffs help domestic manufacturers at the low end of the market, where customer choices are largely price-driven, you have to explain how they'll change outcomes at the upper end. If an affluent customer has decided that he'd rather drive an $80K 7-series BMW than a $60K Cadillac STS, how will a tariff change his mind?
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Replying to: jimbres (Dec 29, 2008 8:37 am) Or in my case, a BMW X5 35d built in America by non Union labor vs a Domestic built by the UAW. Plus the Domestics do not offer me a diesel SUV. Seems that is the problem most of the time the Domestics more and more are not offering what the American consumer wants to buy. I cannot think of a single vehicle built here by UAW labor that would tempt me at 40% below MSRP. That is just what many are selling for today. GM cannot continue to bleed red ink even with US printing money as fast as they waste it. PS I take that back. A Corvette at 40% discount would be a big temptation. |
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 28, 2008 10:48 pm) Cannot exercise the stock options since they are upside down and worthless at this time. What is the deferred compensation that GM execs have? Sure would like to know what that is. And what do you think the Golden Parachute is for GM execs? |
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Its been there for decades. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/29/nothings_too_good_for_the_work/i- ndex.php
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 29, 2008 8:52 am) Generally true, depends on their structure. Many of the early Microsoft employees got stock in the form of compensation. Later on they did well. Most companies, offer stock at this days price (a year period) in the hopes that actions by that person will make the stock worth more. Hence, if it worth more later, he or she would buy all they could get/allowed/agreed to, even borrow to buy, and follow with SEC filing of the intention to sell, if required to do so. What is the deferred compensation that GM execs have? Its a package deal, a contract/covenant. It might have guaranteed and performance based items. It more than likely would be structured to minimize taxes. However, these are heirs to fortunates and more than likely would rather take it in the form of trusts for their family members. Each case is different and needs to be looked into. Generally speaking the amount is agreed upon and accountants, lawyers, economist, and other experts look to get the most out it. I've been party to many of these and your looking at about three days of work, by different disciplines, in structuring this compensation package. UAW does this same thing for their membership, but as a group. Here is the money, now divide it up as you see fitting. Don't leave any money on the table and be sure that your getting the full pot of beans/money. On most contracts an expert from benefits comes in days or weeks prior to negotiations to hammer out details. The internationals representative, who do this all the time are there to advise the chairman of the negotiating committee. Smaller details are addressed by committee people. And what do you think the Golden Parachute is for GM execs? These are golden parachutes by the nature that the concern may not be doing well and all the while they have obligations they incurred during better times. Unless you have some interest into going into money planning. I don't understand your wanting to know the manner of compensation. I find that most folks lack the skills to do their own planning. |
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 29, 2008 9:11 am) It is obvious that the training was not aimed at making the Domestic Auto Industry viable. While I have no problem with such a facility and think that training is vital. I wonder just how useful the training was to better perform your job? For those with a sense of progressive history, an earlier version was at Port Huron. Back in 1962, a bunch of young left activists came together at the UAW's summer camp at Port Huron and penned what became known as the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of what would become Students for a Democratic Society and much of the early New Left in the 1960s. It looks as though I would be opposed to the training given at the UAW center. As I believe that kind of thinking is what is wrong with America today. |
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