Any excuse is a good excuse. I am sure the Political Right Wing will see this as GM failing all over again when in actuality it is preserving American jobs. The unions are going to have to use media, suggestions radio and social media, to help the companies maintain their image and credibility. We know for a fact the GOP pundits stop at nothing. Obviously. But, they don't care if they force a false image and cause damage to USA companies to achieve a goal. They'll a company and cause damage out of pure will to win. Snyder never through past his own political ambitions. He did a reverse on his position with Right to Work because pundits are promising him some kind of payoff. Romney was just in Vegas with Money Bags Adelson. Adelson wants a bigger and better Bain. This all happened after that. They probably are looking at the big three and planning revenge.
It is time to save the unions in the USA, they are freedom and they are a healthy economy. We know that for a fact now.
GM-Opel plant in Germany to shut down (click here)
By Dietmar Henning
It is time to save the unions in the USA, they are freedom and they are a healthy economy. We know that for a fact now.
GM-Opel plant in Germany to shut down (click here)
By Dietmar Henning
12 December 2012
...“2016 ends the production of entire vehicles in Bochum”, Opel CEO Thomas Sedran told workers at the staff meeting on Monday. Following his less than one-minute statement Sedran hurriedly left the meeting room by a back entrance. Eyewitnesses report that an official of the factory union, the engineering and metal workers union IG Metall, sought to speak to Sedran before he left. The official was immediately pushed to the ground by security guards and assaulted....
This was all part of the bailout settlement. This plant was slated to be closed.
By Tim Higgins on December 11, 2012
By Tim Higgins on December 11, 2012
General Motors Co. (GM), straining with an oversupply of full- sized trucks, is offering a stepped-up package of incentives on Chevrolet Silverados and GMC Sierras. The incentives may have risen to as much as $5,000 per pickup in December from less than $4,000 last month on Silverados, according to researcher TrueCar.com’s estimates.
The incentive program represents a slippery slope for the world’s largest automaker. The company earlier vowed to hold the line on such promotions to protect profits through the end of the year, even as competitors flood showrooms with traditional year-end deals. Walking a line offering incentives that lure buyers without threatening profits or spooking investors is the difficult game that GM is now forced to play....
Buy American. I wish the truck manufacturers would concentrate on selling diesel trucks. They are more expensive to manufacture and their ticket price is higher, but, they are fuel conscience and better environmentally. Not only that but biodiesel is an option for diesel trucks without any modifications. If they become more popular their sticker price might come down.
They say depreciation (click here) begins the minute an owner drives a new car home. But if the car survives beyond a normal lifespan, it stops depreciating and begins acquiring value as a collectible. The process can consume a lot of time, as illustrated by this 1903 Ford Model A. New, its base price was $850. Last October, it sold at auction for $264,000, and to a noteworthy new owner: William Clay Ford, Jr., executive chairman of the board for Ford Motor Company and Henry’s great-grandson.
Mr. Ford is only the sixth owner of the Model A, which is believed to be one of the first three built, the third one sold, and the oldest surviving Ford production car. The original owner was Herbert L. McNary, who worked for a creamery in Britt, Iowa. He paid $850 for the car, which he and his family kept for over a half-century....
Target is 2014 for the unions, but, political shake ups will be pushed far before the next group of lawmakers in Michigan take their seats in 2012. The GOP picked the wrong year to attack the Middle Class. This should also reignite opposition in Wisconsin, too. The Snyder bill attacks private unions and not just public. No doubt Walker is eyeing the possibility in Wisconsin as well.
Mr. Ford is only the sixth owner of the Model A, which is believed to be one of the first three built, the third one sold, and the oldest surviving Ford production car. The original owner was Herbert L. McNary, who worked for a creamery in Britt, Iowa. He paid $850 for the car, which he and his family kept for over a half-century....
Target is 2014 for the unions, but, political shake ups will be pushed far before the next group of lawmakers in Michigan take their seats in 2012. The GOP picked the wrong year to attack the Middle Class. This should also reignite opposition in Wisconsin, too. The Snyder bill attacks private unions and not just public. No doubt Walker is eyeing the possibility in Wisconsin as well.
- By Chad Selweski/Digital First Media
- Posted: 12/12/12 12:01 am
Updated: 12/12/12 03:26 am
...Union leaders and members, (click here) many carrying anti-Snyder signs, vowed to continue the fight and seek revenge at the ballot box in 2014.
Terry O’Sullivan, general president of the Laborers International Union of North America, delivered a fiery, profanity-laced speech to a pro-union crowd that stretched from across Allegan Street to the front steps of the Capitol. O’Sullivan, referring to 2014, repeated the infamous remark by Teamsters President James Hoffa at the 2011 Labor Day parade in Detroit.
“We’re going to take them out,” O’Sullivan said, referring in particular to GOP lawmakers associated with the tea party. “If it’s a fight they want, it’s a war they’re going to get.”
War it is !
