It’s not a big story. The automakers of reliable cars are still working. The only ones on strike are those that work for the tin can shop that can’t get you to 100k miles.

Came here to post this. GM had a 90+ days of inventory on dealer lots before the strike began, almost as if they’d planned for the inevitable.

I read it the same way.

Not only that, but two sentences later the article states that GM is struggling to sell trucks.  They can’t lose money on trucks that weren’t built if they weren’t going to sell.

Either the $500M number came straight from the UAW, or this analyst used to work for the RIAA doing calculations on how much money illegal downloads were costing music labels.  One download=one lost sale.  One unbuilt car=one lost sale.  Both wrong.

The strike has cost GM output of more than 8,000 vehicles a day, according to analysts at IHS Markit. With each vehicle averaging about $8,000 in earnings before interest and taxes, and the walkout affecting nearly nine production days, GM has missed out on as much as $544 million in profit, based on calculations…

Exactly. Union workers just think that because they are in a union, they are entitled to max benefits with no effort. 90% of union workers that I know are lazy AF while on the 7:30-3:30 grind ( coffee/cigarette breaks, lunch, and gearing up, clean up time included).

The GM workers do need some kind of dose of reality. For example, maybe an education on what other Fortune 500 company employees pay for healthcare. It’s not pretty...and it has gone up steeply, especially in the past 5-7 years.

Neutral: Fuck GM and fuck shareholder profits. American auto companies were built on their workers, and the executives used to understand that by offering fair pay, healthy benefit packages, and a reasonable distribution of profits.

Mike would request only stallions so he will be, I mean won't be, tempted.

You are an idiot trying to defend this. You state that there are vehicles on the island (this is true), but then try to twist it as “oh, it’s just a normal thing”, which it is not.

They only use motorized vehicles when absolutely necessary, and during season only for an emergency. Off-season, yes the vehicle count goes…

Calling Mike Pence’s Yuxon XL a trash truck is valid only while he’s in it.

I think that goes without saying.

Came here to say that Mike Pence not only sucks, but its an entire bag of dicks in which he consumes on a regular basis. Sometimes crassness is needed.

Eh. It’s almost certainly the case of a tin frigging ear, but I guess at least he showed up in American cars.
It always amazes me to walk by the WH and see how many foreign-built cars the Republicans drive. For people who hate unions and socialists, they sure like to drive cars built by union and socialist labor.

I think that goes without saying.

Needs more stars.  Mother would approve.

Mike Pence sucks.

A horse drawn carriage? But what if there were mares pulling it?

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