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Re: GM Flint strike--4 hour days?

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From: phxbrd
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
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Richard Berkeley wrote:

> Richard wrote:
>
> > If a worker can handle an eight hour workload in a four hour work schedule
> > then someone is getting cheated. I remember back in the eighties when there
> > was a popular and semi-profitable retail chain here where the union workers
> > were making three times as much as the non-union workers in other similar
> > retail outlets. These union workers striked for more pay, more benefits and
> > less work. The retail chains went out of business and the union workers were
> > without a job.
> >
> > GM workers are among the highest paid laborers. Their greed and laziness
> > have blinded their sight to the good positions they have. If they don't open
> > their eyes GM should move out and let this place rot like Detroit.
>
> And people wonder why GM cars are getting more and more expensive.  If these
> assholes in GM continue to strike, more and more jobs will definitely go down to
> Mexico or Canada.  They'll whine about that too, but screw them!
>
> They are really blackmailing GM.  GM used to be the greatest.
>
> Richard

Look around you, Richard, people don't buy Chevrolets any more.  It's not even an
import thing.  Looking around, you'll see plenty of Chrysler and Ford products, made
it the USA.  Chevrolet insists on building cars that are poorly designed, poorly
engineered,  poorly built, and poorly bought.  GMC execs get some of the biggest
paychecks in the world and you, god love ya, blame GM workers for the stupendous
loss in market share, resulting in decreased stock dividends.  Wow!  I guess
management mindset can explain you through anything.

While explaining, tell me why GM can afford to lose 80 billion dollars per day
during the strike about a potential savings of 50 million PER YEAR?  (CNN)

Fuck GM, they're out of control lunatics.  Shut 'em down.  Ford and Chrysler will be
hiring....
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Subject: Re: GM Flint strike--4 hour days?
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