I read this telling myself this is one of those situations where the team has a strong relationship with the reporter, like the Dodgers seemed to have with Tennant a while back. Perhaps the Rays should try incorporating a bucket of Hi-Chew should they win again.
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Unfortunately abysmal build quality in the 80s/90s pushed buyers like me to buy Japanese. Even if the quality has improved I’ll continue to avoid GM and Dodge like the plague.
I mean, the average UAW bonus check last year was over $10k. It’s not like they did nothing.
I’m also an engineer in the industry and everything that DeWayneV8 is saying is pretty accurate. Everything from the abuse of job security to the strain it causes on the company. I get everyone wanting a strong middle class, I want the same. But giving the union everything they want will put a serious strain on the…
It’s very impressive how you manage to be so polite to people who know far less than you, and yet are being very discourteous to you. I hope you have a nice day, and I think you deserve one.
They made long term moves to reduce overhead despite the fact they had record profits. They looked forward to the coming recession and decided to act. That is looking ahead from a business perspective.
I agree that teachers are way underpaid wholeheartedly. The problem is that GM don’t exist in a vacuum, they exist in a labor market and they have to compete with other car companies that have the advantage of not paying UAW wages. If you’re selling a car that competes with a Honda that is produced at a cheaper cost…
The UAW negotiates guaranteed overtime and they get great overtime pay. For example, I’m an engineer in the auto industry and I always work at least 45 hours in a week. I get no overtime pay for that. A UAW worker would get time and a half for those extra 5 hours. There’s also shift differential, if you work second or…
These are the same people that think if the CEO of McDonald’s didn’t earn $22M that all 200k of their employees could make $15/hr. They don’t understand math.
I go to factories every week. They get great pay for overtime, and the UAW negotiates REQUIRED overtime so they make more. They also make shift differential.
Well you also have to think about it from GM’s perspective. If they want to keep making cars in the US with UAW workers, they have to make a business case for it. Many plants in the south for foreign car companies (Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota) have rejected unionizing and their average company cost per worker is WAY…
That is the point. What other labor job that requires no education/experience starts you out at $35k-$40k/yr with the potential to make six figures someday? You out earn teachers by a huge margin over the course of your career as a UAW worker. Hell, you out earn the average college grad over the course of your career.…
Fair, but that’s not GM’s fault, that’s the way the game works. You need investor capitol and you need share value to get the loans/money necessary to invest in new tech.
You’re aware most of those plants are none union, right?
Most Toyota, Nissan and BMW sold in the US are made in US. I guess your comments should be rephrased as: “You could if everyone bought a car that was built by UAW but people aren’t willing to pay for the premium due to our higher wages. “
While I agree about management bonuses, you’re talking about a drop in the bucket compared to overall expenses. You can’t fix the problem by doing away with those, although that’s not an argument for keeping them.
Thats so short-sighted. There are a ton of foreign companies (Honda, Toyota, etc) that make a ton of their vehicles here in the States with American labor. And hell, id rather buy their vehicles over just about anything American because they are more reliable and usually cheaper as well
Reality can be a bitch.
While that’s a harsh way of putting it, that’s precisely what all the engineers in the auto industry are doing.