Posted on 10/19/2002 1:29:09 PM PDT by Willie Green
Until NASCAR announces it disassociation with this turncoat company that became what it is through the wallet of the American worker/consumer, there is no compelling reason for me to give a damn about anyone who gives prime time attention to the Goodyear 'Made In Mexico' image.
Does NASCAR, or any real American want to be pictured with a turncoat that has backstabbed the single greatest market consumer - gullible enough to trust and believe Goodyear was an America First company?????
Listen up NASCAR....Goodyear is a gutter scum anti-American economy slime ball!!!!!
You are who you associate with......Put up or shut down!!!
There is no fender/fence/wall for you to sit on in this fight. You are for us, or you are against us!!!
You fly the American flag, but is it there as a sign of allegiance, or is it there as a used-car lot prop to sucker a profit???
You play the American anthem before each race, but are you willing to walk the walk?
Why do they need job retraining? The good folks at Lincoln NE did their jobs okay. The only sin the Lincoln workers committed was earning a decent wage to support their families.
This typical of the political/elite class's contention that American workers just aren't good enough. By going for cheap labor and subsidized businesses/industries outside the US, folks like Goodyear are only propping up socialist and communist economies.
Yeah, there's plenty of growth opportunity in the high-tech telecom/dotbomb sector, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Maybe everybody can be retrained as web page designers. </sarcasm>
They are in demand.
Only by diploma mills who're peddling "degrees" in web-page design.
What sucks is stupid union work rules that drive companies away.
Belt cutter Tom Day might lose his job because a hose worker has more seniority? Sounds really logical to me. After all, seniority is more important than job performance, or skills, or knowledge, right?
Baloney.
Here in our NON-union manufacturing plant, our workers average more than lawyers. When one of our product lines goes away, we find another. But then we're "right to work", and non-performers have a very short tenure - measured in minutes - regardless of seniority.
Americans can still out-manufacture anybody in the world, on any product, when we use our ingenuity and individualism to our advantage. Stifled by silly work rules and "seniority", expect to see more plants move where the labor is cheaper. Drones that perform rote jobs within a narrow scope by fixed rules ain't hard to find. They aren't expensive, either.
Actually, employees with a suitable aptitude can be quite difficult to find.
Even "dull, repetitive, rote" jobs often require significant training in operation/maintenance of sophisticated equipment to maximize utilization and productivity.
Your lack of understanding and personal disdain for this facet of manufacturing serves to illustrate your own shortcomings as a member of an "Industrial Advisory Committee".
I think corporate America is sick of being strong-armed by Unions, which in essence is driving the cost of business up. I'm not anti-Union, but I'm not desirous of sending every American job to Mexico because the Unions want to play hardball. In a soft economy - you'd better take what you can get.
Go ahead, flame away.
Next January's annoucement will be the plant in Mexico has been moved to Red China and the 480 laid-off Mexican workers are crossing the Rio Grande to collect unemployment.
If you're not familiar with factory operations, I think you'd be surprised at how sophisticated some of the equipment can be to enable companies to profitably crank-out such a high volume of product while continuously improving quality and reducing cost, all the while complying with ever more stringent OSHA and EPA regulations.
Good point. I'm pretty ignorant on how unions are run. For me, unions still equal the "mob". Whenever the subject of unions comes up on here, I pay attention. Minimum wage laws could also be part of the problem...
Yes, and how many of those will be illegal aliens or 'skilled worker immigrants'?
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