Posted on April 30 at 6:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Here is my source for the previous comment I made...Complete with author and source...Note paragraph 6...Efficiency would include productivity and attendance.
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General Motors plant in Arlington to lay off second shift next week
11:42 PM CDT on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By TERRY BOX / The Dallas Morning News
tbox@dallasnews.com
The second shift of workers at the General Motors Assembly Plant in Arlington will be laid off next week as demand for full-size SUVs remains weak.
Wendi Sabo, plant spokeswoman, said the layoff is also related to a two-month strike by American Axle, a GM supplier. The Arlington plant is coming off a three-week shutdown and consequently has a small supply of axles on hand.
On Monday, the plant's first shift will report to work at 6 a.m. as usual.
The second shift will be laid off the entire week, affecting about half of the plant's 2,400 hourly workers. Second-shift workers will receive 95 percent of their base pay during the layoff.
GM also announced Monday that it is indefinitely suspending the second shift at its full-size SUV plant Janesville, Wis., which will affect up to 1,000 workers.
The plant builds the same general mix of full-size SUVs that Arlington does, but the Arlington plant is ranked higher in efficiency and quality.
If demand for full-size SUVs continues to drop, workers at both plants expect GM to ultimately consolidate all SUV production at one plant – a possibility that officials have not commented on.
"We're happy we have what we've got," said Enrique "JR" Flores Jr., president of UAW Local 276, which represents hourly workers at the Arlington plant.
"We're also saddened about what happened at Janesville. But we understand what is happening out there."
Posted on April 30 at 5:57 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
There are stories in the Dallas/Fort Worth area that say the decision to shut down the second shift at Janesville came down to productivity, quality and attendance!
Arlington beat Janesville in all 3 areas...Thus, Janesville is shut down and Arlington's 2nd shift will only be laid off one week.
To quote that famous presidential candidacy killer, Jeremiah Wright, Janesville's "Chickens have come home to roost!"
Apparently you have nobody else to blame but yourselves.
Posted on April 29 at 6:18 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Diamondback-GM will have millions of dollars of loss associated with the strike that have nothing to do with "vehicles sitting on the lot"
Please read my posting below and note that it says nothing about the vehicles on the lot with regard to tax loss/write off...It says that GM gets to draw down the massive amount of inventory on it's lots while writing off any losses on it's taxes.
It's the perfect storm in GM's favor...Understand they would have had to have even greater, more wide spread layoffs than we are seeing today if not for the strike...Then GM writes off any loss that they can document...They draw down inventory and the U.S. tax payer pays for it at the end of the year.
If I gave the impression that vehicles sitting on dealer lots were part of that loss, it was not what I meant to say.
Dirk
Posted on April 29 at 6:10 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Perhaps GM/AAM/UAW are in cohoots in all this.
AAM workers stay out until they are bled financially dry and have to take any offer.
GM gets to draw down the excess trucks/suv/vans that are just sitting on the lot AND THEN WRITE IT OFF THEIR TAXES AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!
If GM simply laid people off to reduce inventory they couldn't write it off the tax bill due...The strike allows that to happen.
The UAW bosses?...Who knows what "benefit" is being given to them to take the AAM people out.
The UAW has sold us all out in the national contract and now seeks to ruin long time workers to get them to buy out!
What would be their motive?...At Delphi, we couldn't figure out why the UAW wanted me to buyout or retire, then replace me with a worker making half the money and paying half the union dues.
TURNS OUT THAT THE DELPHI CONTRACT CONTAINS A CLAUSE THAT ANY BUSINESS SELLING TO DELPHI MUST ORGANIZE UNDER THE UAW AND PAY UNION DUES...THIS MORE THAN DOUBLES UAW MEMBERSHIP AND INCREASES DUES COMING IN, EVEN THOUGH AUTO WORKERS ARE BEING HIRED IN AT HALF THE WAGE!
NO DOUBT THE UAW/GM/FORD/CHRYSLER AGREEMENTS CONTAIN THE SAME VERBAGE!!!
I have asked several GM workers to ask their union reps if this is true...The UAW REFUSES to answer the question regarding whether or not non union parts/material plants must organize under the UAW whether their workers want it or not.
The bottom line is that GM workers were sold out by the UAW and now it's happening again...All so that the UAW would have more clout in the Democratic Party.
I hope all of you Union Brothers and Sisters who have always blindly voted Democrat because the Union told you "Democrats are for the workin man," are happy about being sold out by the UAW to gain power in the Democratic Party.
ASK YOUR UNION IF THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT REQUIRES SUPPLIERS TO ORGANIZE UNDER THE UAW OR LOSE THEIR BUSINESS WITH GM!!!...I GUARANTEE YOU WON'T GET AN ANSWER!!!
Posted on April 28 at 4:02 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Diamondback-Any costs/losses associated with the strike can be written off taxes at the end of the year...Everything GM can justify will be listed as "Loss due to strike" when the tax man comes
Posted on April 28 at 3:09 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Perhaps GM/AAM/UAW are in cohoots in all this.
AAM workers stay out until they are bled financially dry and have to take any offer.
GM gets to draw down the excess trucks/suv/vans that are just sitting on the lot AND THEN WRITE IT OFF THEIR TAXES AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!
If GM simply laid people off to reduce inventory they couldn't write it off the tax bill due...The strike allows that to happen.
The UAW bosses?...Who knows what "benefit" is being given to them to take the AAM people out.
The UAW has sold us all out in the national contract and now seeks to ruin long time workers to get them to buy out!
What would be their motive?...At Delphi, we couldn't figure out why the UAW wanted me to buyout or retire, then replace me with a worker making half the money and paying half the union dues.
TURNS OUT THAT THE DELPHI CONTRACT CONTAINS A CLAUSE THAT ANY BUSINESS SELLING TO DELPHI MUST ORGANIZE UNDER THE UAW AND PAY UNION DUES...THIS MORE THAN DOUBLES UAW MEMBERSHIP AND INCREASES DUES COMING IN, EVEN THOUGH AUTO WORKERS ARE BEING HIRED IN AT HALF THE WAGE!
NO DOUBT THE UAW/GM/FORD/CHRYSLER AGREEMENTS CONTAIN THE SAME VERBAGE!!!
I have asked several GM workers to ask their union reps if this is true...The UAW REFUSES to answer the question regarding whether or not non union parts/material plants must organize under the UAW whether their workers want it or not.
The bottom line is that GM workers were sold out by the UAW and now it's happening again...All so that the UAW would have more clout in the Democratic Party.
I hope all of you Union Brothers and Sisters who have always blindly voted Democrat because the Union told you "Democrats are for the workin man," are happy about being sold out by the UAW to gain power in the Democratic Party.
ASK YOUR UNION IF THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT REQUIRES SUPPLIERS TO ORGANIZE UNDER THE UAW OR LOOSE THEIR BUSINESS WITH GM!!!...I GUARANTEE YOU WON'T GET AN ANSWER!!!
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Posted on May 1 at 9:06 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Perhaps GM/AAM/UAW are in cohoots in all this.
AAM workers stay out until they are bled financially dry and have to take any offer.
GM gets to draw down the excess trucks/suv/vans that are just sitting on the lot!
THEN WRITE IT OFF ALL STRIKE RELATED LOSSES OFF THEIR TAXES AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!
If GM simply laid people off to reduce inventory they couldn't write it off the tax bill due...The strike allows that to happen...This is the perfect storm FOR GM!
The UAW bosses?...Who knows what "benefit" is being given to them to take the AAM people out.
The UAW has sold us all out in the national contract and now seeks to ruin long time workers to get them to buy out!
What would be their motive?...At Delphi, we couldn't figure out why the UAW wanted me to buyout or retire, then replace me with a worker making half the money and paying half the union dues.
TURNS OUT THAT THE DELPHI CONTRACT CONTAINS A CLAUSE THAT ANY BUSINESS SELLING TO DELPHI MUST ORGANIZE UNDER THE UAW AND PAY UNION DUES...THIS MORE THAN DOUBLES UAW MEMBERSHIP AND INCREASES DUES COMING IN, EVEN THOUGH AUTO WORKERS ARE BEING HIRED IN AT HALF THE WAGE!
NO DOUBT THE UAW/GM/FORD/CHRYSLER AND THE POSSIBLE "NEW" AAM AGREEMENTS CONTAIN THE SAME VERBAGE!!!
I have asked several UAW workers to ask their union reps if this is true...The UAW REFUSES to answer the question regarding whether or not the new contracts require non union parts/material plants to organize under the UAW whether their workers want it or not.
The bottom line is that GM workers were sold out by the UAW and now it's happening again...All so the UAW would have more clout in the Democratic Party.
I hope all of you Union Brothers and Sisters who have always blindly voted Democrat because the Union told you "Democrats are for the workin man," are happy about being sold out by the UAW to gain power in the Democratic Party.