XPost: wpg.general, can.general, ont.jobs   
   From: cd69@shaw.ca   
      
    wrote in message news:48b9870d.44537109@news.mts.net...   
   > x-no-archive On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:39:53 GMT, Ray   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>myhome@mts.net wrote:   
   >>> When are we as Canadians going to wiseup and boycott General Motors?   
   >>> They're closing assembly plants down east, and opening up new plants   
   >>> in India, they have one there now.   
   >>> They put our fellow Canadians out of work, put them on EI most likely,   
   >>> then stick promotions on TV to entice us to buy more of their   
   >>> vehicles.   
   >>   
   >>Do you have a clue?   
   >>   
   >>No, not likely.   
   >>   
   >>So, STFU or get a clue.   
   >   
   >   
   > I have a clue, I don't like what GM is doing even if it's to save   
   > money on the backs of unemployed Canadians.   
   >   
   > So if you, your brother or father worked for GM and had the plant   
   > you/they had worked at for 20 years closed because GM was building two   
   > plants in India, your comments would be completely different.   
      
   The thing is a boycott won't help the rest of the current GM employees or   
   any of the other Big 3 workers.North America has already lost that battle   
   for the supremacy in car making and we are trying hard to hold on to what we   
   currently still have.It looks like within 5 years we won't have more than   
   half of the current Big 3 plants but the good side if that can be is   
   companies like Toyota are bringing plants here now so the production will be   
   shifting from one outfit to another and the asian carmakers will thrive.The   
   drawback initially will be for the workers with 20+ years seniority with the   
   Big 3 losing their jobs and having to restart at much lower wages after   
   having to relocate.For people that are familiar with the car industry,it is   
   a known fact that Canadian plants are some of the most productive and with   
   the lowest production cost in the world.The issue is not about wages and   
   benefits but due to other countries highly subsidizing their car production   
   and dumping their cars in North America while imposing high tariffs on our   
   vehicles sold oversea.   
      
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