Striking For Job Security? What Will They Think Of Next?

This disturbs me greatly, GM has said that they need to pay lower wages in order to keep a presence in the USA. What the hell?

GM is the largest car maker and making the most profit, built by the people of the USA., and GM does not give a damn about giving jobs to America people.

They take our money with products/jobs made in other countries, but will not give decent American men jobs in order to keep the money in the USA.
Most of America is living below the poverty level at this time, I know many who are suffering.

We live in a global economy. Grousing about it doesn’t change the facts. Toyota is selling 2 million autos a year in the US…they build 65% of them here. Honda makes 80% of their vehicles sold in the US market here. It’s a smart business strategy, since both auto makers avoid hefty tariffs levied on autos built overseas.

GM could easily move most of their production offshore. Mexico would be a main beneficiary if they did. Meanwhile production quality still suffers at most American manufacturors, and unions have to accept some of the blame.

Very few people have job security, so why does the UAW believe their workers deserve it? The fact is, they don’t, and until they rid themselves of that kind of entitlement thinking it will become an even more divisive issue.

If unions like the UAW want to negotiate from a position of strength, they need to start focusing on making workers more competive for their jobs, and more focus on quality control. If someone has been on the job for 20 years but isn’t performing to standard, why should that person continue to get paid, especially if someone else is peforming at or above that standard? In the rest of America that is how we work. It is how we maintain our positions and guarantee our jobs…by being more productive and increasing our inherent value to the companies who pay us.

Typical thought process of a GW.(supporting)I got mine let them eat cake mentality.
If it weren’t for the unions trying to hold things together the USA’s journey to becoming a third world country would be even more rapid than it already is.
Mexico ? I have seen first hand what happens to production and quality control when companies try to work on the “cheap”. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Except when it comes to CEO’s.
Do you read the news? The American worker is the most productive in the world ! WORLD !!!
They work more hours, take less time off than workers in the rest of the industrialised nations. Often for less pay.

While they sit on their @ss corporate big wigs get undeserved riches while tring to figure out how to put more money in their pocket, and to hell with the people who paid the price for making the company what it was.
The worn out workers just get tossed to the side,,,,,OH WELL. it’s not like they belong to the same country club I do, so who cares. I don’t have to look at them.
Look at the countries that have little or no Unions at all. would you like to live there?
I don’t think so.
You know wealth is like anything else. There is only so much to go around,
and when a very few try to control it all and the rest of the people have none sooner or later mob rule will take over. HEY there’s an idea,,,,The new “ruling class” can hire Blackwater to keep the peons in line since Iraq kicked them out.
Abenjamin, When is the last time you got your hands dirty making something of value?
I’m not talking about sitting in an office, I’m talking about working on an assy line, or spending 40 hrs+ a week in a steel mill breathing the dirt, or working 200′ in the air walking the iron? I didn’t think so.
As far as some of your prior post mention your problems with Dell. Do you think the problem might NOT have anything to do the workers?
Do the words Outsource…Offshore, Cheap Labor, ring a bell?
Oh it’s a world economy,,,,,YOU Better believe it…and no matter how hard you push paper around you can’t make a profit only on paper. To make true profit you have to have a product (of value) to show for it.
Something todays CEO’s and board members seem to have forgotten.
The stock market is a good example of what’s wrong with todays world.
It is no longer based on the true value of a companies worth. It is now being run a nothing more than a scam. One person betting that what he buys for a dollar today he can sell for two the next. It doesn’t matter just as long as there are others out there who will buy into the hype. Sooner or later the bubble will burst. Then all the paper money people might have to go out and get a real job making something of true value,,,,like a product !

pssst, I think there might be a good deal on a few Beamers, and Lexus in the future

Yes, the Unions have a few problems,,,, The biggest one is their leaders are acting more and more like CEO’s and less and less like the people they stand for.

Bob, maybe you need to look under your self-professed dirty fingernails and give your comments a thought or two. What is considered “of value”? Is the software that my company makes not a thing “of value?” Does a person have to be involved in manual labor for the end product to be considered “of value?”
Your neandrethal mindset over work and what value really is, not to mention your obvious racial ignorance is exactly what is wrong with the union mindset.
You call what GM and Ford have put out over the last few years quality? Thats almost too funny.

And those Mexicans you disparage as beaners? I and several friends and business associates have gone down in the last year for the most incredible and outstanding dental care. I had major dental work needed, my local dentist (who btw had a Porche in the driveway and had just purchased a really nice 38 foot boat) wanted close to $9000 for the work. I flew into El Paso and was picked up at my hotel by the dental clinic, driven to their facilities, and had spectacular work done for less than $2000! They treated me like a king, red carpet all the way. And I went AFTER a good friend went down with similar results.
Are the corporate bigwigs overpaid? No doubt about it. The unions haven’t had any effect on their earnings, so that foolish and assinine part of your argument holds no water.
The reality is, NO ONE should have job security if a company is losing money. I don’t have it, and most Americans don’t have it, and those “beaners” as you call them don’t have it, so why should some over-paid, ignorant schlub like you have it?
Get real!!!