The jobs bank costs GM jobs

Cgarleston Daily-Mail ^ | 3/29/06

[Dane]

Now there's a job every American will do, sit around and get paid for doing nothing.

[apackof2]

It gets boring real fast

[Graybeard58]

sit around and get paid for doing nothing.

That's my job! (retired)

[When do we get liberated?]

Yeah, few Mexicans on that end of the payroll

[VOA]

A company that loses $10 billion cannot afford 7,500 who don't work

LOL! GM deserves to die!
For having the daring to muscle in on the "good pay for no work" monopoly
held by Federal, state and local guvmints!

[rbg81]

I had heard about this before, but was sketchy on the details. Someone needs to take a blow torch to GM and its Unions. This is nuts for a company losing this much $$ to be tolerating this crap--it indicates a total lack of leadership on someone's part. The Union should be smart enough to recognize that they are the parasites killing the host. Maybe Receivership IS the only answer--a very sad commentary for a once great company and engine of American growth.

[NeoCaveman]

Yes, Americans are lazy.

That's a winning campaign slogan

/sarc

[Maceman]

But why wait until next year before dealing with this problem? GM executives do no one any good by prolonging this program that fails in so many ways.

Because right now negotiations are going on with UAW/Delphi/GM, and the jobs bank is only one of numerous issues on the table.

The UAW contract expires in 2007, and that will determine the timing of how things proceed.

[Thebaddog]

I remember when the UAW would pick one victim of the big 3 in the 60's and 70's who would have to negotiate a contract which the other two would have to accept. They feared strikes worse than death.

I hate the freaking unions, but you have to wonder what on earth the makers were doing back then with their spines.

[Random Access]

See the USA in your Subaru....

[Anti-Bubba182]

I did not Know about the jobs bank. It is impossible for me to have a lot of sympathy for the UAW membership.

I wonder if GM goes bankrupt, does that end the pensions of their retiriees?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Now there's a job every American will do, sit around and get paid for doing nothing.

That isn't exactly just. If that was true then unions would be growing in size rather then shrinking even as industry grows.

The problem is that a union is geared toward making sure the least productive keep their job.

The UAW has turned this into such a art form, to the point that other unions regard them with disgust.

[PLMerite]

GM needs to get into the sewer-cleaning business and put some of that "pool" to work. I wonder how many of them would quit?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You want to hear something that will blow your mind?

At GM you can just not show up for work and you will not be fired or disciplined.

This is not a personal day, this is a No Call/No Show that would at least see you on probation at any other company. But GM UAW members can do this up to five times a year and no action is taken.

How do you run a line when you have no idea if your crew is going to show up?

[Neanderthal]

"I wonder if GM goes bankrupt, does that end the pensions of their retiriees?"

Nope. If you want to know who'll be paying those pensions, just look in the mirror. Joe Taxpayer.

[longtermmemmory]

seven thousand happy democrats.

[BW2221]

"See the USA in your Subaru...."

Only if you're gay!

[Anti-Bubba182]

You mean the govenment gaurantees those big UAW Pensions!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Sheesh!

[longtermmemmory]

HOWEVER a bankruptcy judge will not look kindly on the jobs bank clause if the union objects to the inevitable GM effort to avoid that aspect of the contract.

Those who do not take the parachute may live to regret their selfishness.