Does Anyone feel like Bailing

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Noticed in NYT story this morning saying it's the end of the line for SUVs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/bu...er=rss&emc=rss

For a YEAR. What an amazing deal.

Of course, in a market, everything is connected. The other side here is that GM is motivated to close the plant *sooner*, so they don't have to pay for nothing for too long. With gas prices dropping like a rock, perhaps there is life for the line after all. But GM can't risk it.

There is always the other side to these deals. The union negotiates a higher salary and greater benefits. The company must then lay people off wholesale, when the tough times come, instead of keeping more people and saving money on salary and benefits.

Still, GM had their chance to build a car in a non-union state, from scratch, with non-union North American labor just like the Japanese companies... and they built Saturn. Were we supposed to be impressed?

Chuh. I WORKED at that Moraine plant and I cannot think of a group of people more richly deserving of a plant closing than these fucks.

Go ahead and pitch your names at me----these people DESTROYED their plant. I saw it happen day by day. The union was invested in saving the jobs of your worst cow orker nightmare---is that what union dues are for? to save the scum of the earth? Coz that's what they did. Worst. People. Ever.

And beware, all of you. Lots of these displaced persons are heading for nursing school. Think things are bad in health care now? Just wait.