Just a question to anyone who lost a job form GM or FORD

[blues90]

I have wondered since I was in the Auto repair field working for ford dealerships in a management position and was fired 18 months ago .

How you are dealing and what happened to affect your life ? I know GM tried to blame the workers . Since these resulted in many many people loosing their life long jobs and there seem to be even more jobs going away .

I am curious how you personally feel about this and how you are coping . I am on your side in all of this .

[Sadie5]

1. GM tried to blame the workers

But it didn't work. did it. My husband has worked in a GM plant for 30 years, not auto related. Everyone he talks to thinks they want to move as much of their business as they can get away with to Europe or elsewhere where the labor is cheap. They want to get out of paying pensions and insurance and if they move where labor is cents on the dollar this will mean more money in their pockets.

[elehhhhna]

2. We cannot compete w/ the civilized world w/o National Health Care. Period

[havocmom]

3. And Ford is backing off their course of BIG ACQUISITIONS

It wasn't workers who spent all that dough buying other car labels. Guess some at Ford may be seeing that trying to own everything costs too much.

http://money.excite.com/ht/nw/bus/20060806/hle_bus-l06739512.html

LONDON (Reuters) - Automaker Ford Motor (F) may sell Land Rover, a maker of four-wheel-drive vehicles, along with Jaguar, as part of a shake-up of its British brands, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.

The newspaper said it was understood that Ford's senior management, led by Chairman and chief Executive Bill Ford Jr., was considering packaging the two marques together and selling a majority stake to a financial investor.

The paper said banking sources had also said, however, that it was still not certain that Ford would part company with Jaguar and that there was a chance it would be retained, but with reduced production and a concentration on exclusive luxury sports cars.

Brilliant CEOs (worth all those millions they are paid, doncha know) running around buying other companies aren't the problem. The people actually MAKING THINGS are the problem. Those silly workers expect to be paid! Imagine! :sarcasm:

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