Government should put a cap on auto worker wages !!
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This means nothing, the government gave the money to GM Canada.
You obviously do not understand anything about company financial controls or company accounting principles, otherwise you would not be making these statements.
I really don't care where the other GM build plants and futhermore this has nothing to do with the OP.
The NDP was in it strictly to protect the union dues they get a share of every month.
The money is being paid back because there profits are protected by putting import fees on competition from Korea and Japan.
Be careful who you threaten !!
If you'd done your research you'd know that Canadian workers are world class, and the screw-up is on the management level.
World class, I must be missing something, just how world class do you have to be to be able to mount tire on it's hub, especially if it's elevated and in an air conditioned environment.
Hmmm, maybe there's more to it than I thought. I used to do this in the mud when it's raining outside. I guess things have changed since then!!
Yes, I agree management also screwed up, and they are from ????? Hmmmmm, seems to be a pattern here ???
Btw, in case you have not noticed, I'm a world class poster!!! Hahaha!!
Sometimes I feel the same way, but I think it's going to be taken care of in a different way. With gas prices, pollution concerns etc. the automobile as we know it is on the virge of a down turn. Look to fewer, smaller and fewer miles being driven. There is just not the money in the family income to afford all that automation along with all the other gadgets competing today for our dollar. Actually we want gov't. to keep its nose out of our lives as much as possible, if they start controlling auto workers' wages it's just a short jump to the butcher, the baker and the light bulb manufacturer.
You're a Fascist..
It's impossible for any sane human to be as dunked by what you say, so you are being paid by Lucifer to accelerate Armageddon.
When God delivered prophesies about the future, He was not saying how things had to be... He was saying how things would turn out if they kept going...
And you f-ckes think it's going to be funny suffering in hell.
You clearly don't know about how in the earlier part of the previous Century the workers demand, and got, a share of the industrial wealth and went forward to spend their money on the products in order to keep the economy rolling.
You know *nothing* about what's going on in China, and you know *nothing* about what Japan is preparing to do in order to survive after the New Yorkers ****ed the economy. Congratulations with your ultimate unregulated freedom. You ***** have never read the Bible nor have you wondered how the world worked before regulation and why people asked for it.
Yes, I really don't agree with gov controlling wages either. But I don't like being held hostage by unions either. Maybe there's another solution ??
Well your free to express your opinion. I guess your even free to denigrate some one if your so inclined. But in the end, it does say something about you.
Me neither least of anyone, but unions' strength is ultimately controlled by the market place.
In response to the OP though, I'll say that I disagree with putting a cap on auto worker wages. At the same time though, I'm also for auto workers paying the price for greed. Bailing out the industry does not give them a chance to learn. Instead we pay the price for excessively high wages.
Except when the government bails it out.
Except when the government bails it out.
This is why the right fringe is so worrisome. Just when GM is turning the corner, they want to start monkeying around with the organization. I say, pay the workers whatever the market dictates. Mind you, I'm for free enterprise. I'm really beginning to think that is a foreign concept to those on the far right.
I'm all for leaving it alone now. My point is it ought not to have been bailed out in the first place. As mentioned above, I disagree with a wage cap, but just don't bail it out again.
If workers lose their jobs, we can always retrain them for naturally growing industries, no need for make-work jobs by bailing them out.
Absolutely. If GM wants to build elsewhere, it should do it on its own dime, not ours.
Do you really think that wages are the main contributer to the collapse of the auto industry? I would suggest that it was the exec's near sighted reliance on massive gas guzzling SUV's that did it in for them, they're great when gas is cheap and loans are cheap, how they didn't foresee what was coming is beyond me. In my opinion, blame the pricks at the top, they created the mess.
If we had codetermination legislation as they do in Germany and Sweden, then the workers too would have a voice on the board of directors. I would be all for that. But then, let the market handle it.
However, even without such legislation in place, why reward the execs? We shoudl have let GM fall and maybe get bought out by another car manufacturer. As for the workers who lose their jobs in teh process, retrain them for the new growing car industry, the successful one, likely Toyota or something of the sort.
Materials and labour to build a vehicle is around $7000
A 60% mark up adds $4200 (60% is considered a highly profitable margin)
When was the last time you bought a fully loaded mid sized car of baseline truck for $11400 which would be a fair market value?
A 60% mark up adds $4200 (60% is considered a highly profitable margin)
When was the last time you bought a fully loaded mid sized car of baseline truck for $11400 which would be a fair market value?