http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/ Autoblog Comments for GM offers up to $200 million to end American Axle strike http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/May 9th 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/look at the 200M as an investment in time to come up with an alternate solution.
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let's see how Americal Axle will survive than]]>May 9th 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/
Geo, as you know almost everyone is building in Mexico with the Toyota Tundra plant one of the newest. The problem is with the American companies is the UAW. The UAW is preventing further expansion into Mexico and that is why they aren't giving options. Toyota doesn't have these problems because the plants that they do have in the U.S. are non-union in non-union states.

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GM has made pickups since the beginning and SUV's going waaaay back. ]]>May 9th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/May 9th 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/
I'm all for keeping jobs in America and strong employee/management relations but sometimes it is impossible to prevent someone (UAW) from committing suicide if they're hell-bent on doing it and then you have to look elsewhere (Mexico, etc.) for the work to get done.]]>May 9th 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/
You don't like your job? either work harder for a raise, or go somewhere else. Strikes had their place in history as a good thing in the 30's in the meat packing industry when conditions REALLY were horrid, but this is 2008 there are no safety issues, or anything like that.

People seem to think they have a "right" to be employed somewhere, it makes me sick. GM just threw 200 million out the window to a bunch of stupid lazy people who in the long run are costing you, me, and even themselves money. How much has GM bent over backwards for unions? Or rather I should ask, how much has GM been bent over a desk and nailed by the UAW? Want to see GM turn a profit? Get rid of unions.]]>May 9th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/
Okay, first of all, you can't really "work harder"; things are set up on a timed schedule that keeps you at perfect pace with the rest of the factory, and by working that much harder, you're only proving you can do that much work in the first place. There's no bonus in the works, they just fire someone else and add his job to yours.

Hell, I've seen efficiency engineers so crooked and hungry for money/promotion that lower-level managers have to go to their bosses and say that their production schedules are impossible.

They don't care about you. Do what they say or you're fired.]]>May 9th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/09/gm-offers-up-to-200-million-to-end-american-axle-strike/
Stop making delusional excuses for the UAW already. If it was even remotely that easy to get rid of UAW workers, do you really think the Big 3 would offer $70K to $100K per person to incentivize UAW workers to take early retirement?

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