GM pulling out of Oshawa
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Topic: GM pulling out of Oshawa
Posted By: jaybmiller
Subject: GM pulling out of Oshawa
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 6:22am
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Well that's the big news this week...sigh, 2500 great paying jobs lost, another 2500 lesser ones like resaurants, coffee shop, corner stores... The 'domino' effect will be huge. What really hurts is that we, Canadian taxpayers GAVE GM millions and millions to them, and now they leave !! Course the head idiot here 'forgave' the BILLION buck load to Chyrsler last month. GM said they're going to toolup for e-cars, I assume in Mexico ? though you've got a mnor boarder problem at the moment. I remember when Butler Buildings the same thing, closed down Cdn bldg systems. That has cost me $1,000/month. Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 7:48am
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Oshawa; Lordstown, OH; Hamtramck, MI; Warren, MI, and Baltimore, MD. Expected to save $6B in overhead costs, 25% reduction in executives, while adding much more entry level engineers.
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 9:47am
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Thought Fiat had paid back everything on the Chrysler bailout . Seems GM is giving the SHAFT to many again after the Obama saving jobs deal First GM stockholders and bond holders got taken with the Old Stock bankruptcy - now GM again says OOPS we are going to change direction and drop the cars we said were the future . Almost looks like GM is saying hay Obama gave us CASH and we are going to play politics now with peoples lives and make Trump and Conservatives bad looking ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 9:50am
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What i still see as the ODD thing is pickups which use to be the low end vehicle sold to working stiffs to carry their tools of the trade are now the LUXURY platform demanding $50,000 + starting prices . Also the SUV is the next line or a CADILLAC Suburban ...A STATUS symbol of owning a name plate in a unit that was a heavy haul station wagon years back and built on truck platform ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:33am
Shameless, a high falutin hillbilly???   Hillbilly | Definition of Hillbilly by Merriam-WebsterHillbilly definition is - a person from a backwoods area I know snow, but I couldn't resist. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:50am
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No Coke, &^&*& Trudeau 'forgave' the one BILLION dollar loan.... maybe 2 months ago(?) No wonder we can't afford 100,000 migrants a year that HE says we have to allow.... Also found out most( a LOT) of GM cars being built in Korea and Caddies are Made in China ! Ford sells 8X more Fseries trucks than ALL combined car sales. What 'irks' me the most is the one sided deals the guv makes. Here, take our money..no that's OK, no 'strings' attached.... I'd have said ,'for every million Canada invests in you, you will STAY in Canada for 1 calendar year'. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:54am
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hurray for Government Motors! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 10:57am
any bets on who the 25% reduction in executives will be? could it be the ones Obama didn't get in the first round? ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Tbone95 wrote:Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:08am
Don't know..... A young man who I used to supervise works for GM, he texted me yesterday what I just wrote here.
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:12am
 ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:18am
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What saddens me about these kinds of things is they always seem to happen at this time of year. People are trying to celebrate the holidays and then find out they won't have a job. Lowes is closing a lot of stores right now. Kmart/Sears are closing stores on a regular basis. But, here in the U.S.A. they can always get one of the multitude of new jobs that are currently available . . . somewhere!!! I did hear a while back that GM told the employees, if they didn't take the profit sharing checks this wouldn't happen. The employees took the checks. But GM probably would have done it anyway, anyway. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 11:20am
If that's true......well that's some seriously jacked up thinking on GM's part, and heck no I wouldn't trust they'd keep their word!!!
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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 1:51pm
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So much for a UNION contract then, HUH? ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2018 at 2:00pm
| Union has not meant much for quite a few years, the younger generations have taken the seat as to negotiations and cower against the well seasoned HR people. That is happening at where I used to work currently and see it ever more other locations. Old guys are bailing as fast as can retire before pensions die off. |