Looking for Auto Industry Bailout Video/Commerical..need help

[Thor Von Clemson]

I need help finding a commercial online. I THINK it was a GM commercial stating something along the lines of "what's good for GM is good for america." The commercial showed what would potentially happen if GM goes under. It may have been a general bailout video for the auto industry as a whole but the primary message was the same (whats good for us is whats good for America.)

It is not the ripple effect video that is commonly showing up in search engines. It may have only been on local news... I know it may be a long shot but if anyone happens to know what I am talking about and where I could find it, I would appreciate it. I need it for a school project ASAP.

[AK47]

UAW destroyed GM make sure to get that in your project. I will look for the video you mention I think I saw it somewhere. I will post back if I find it.

[OnlineStageGear]

UAW destroyed GM make sure to get that in your project. I will look for the video you mention I think I saw it somewhere. I will post back if I find it.

Yep. When your general laborer cost you $157,000 a year to keep employed, thanks to the UAW, you are bound to be in trouble. UAW president stood fast to the employees wages and wouldn't budge even though thier company is about to fold. Add to that a CEO who took a 63% pay increase last year for job performance, yet your company lost money, you are bound to be in trouble.

Matt

[85 San Dimas]

+ 1 GIG Ditto all the way.

The was some idiot economist back in December who had the socialist cahones to suggest that the GOV'T BUY GM and GIVE it to the employees.

I'm going to get a bill to pay for a car company to be given to the emplyees (UAW)?

Wonder how the UAW would feel about me leading an organizing effort against THEM?

[Newc]

I'm anti-Union all the way, but would GM pay non-Union workers $6.50 an hour and force them to work 96 hours a week while the top brass stuffed millions a year into their pockets?
Should Doctors and Lawyers make $100K+ a year but not a "lowly line worker"?

[OnlineStageGear]

Theres a difference between a Doctor & Lawyer that go to 8 years of Higher education and get in hundreds of thousands of debt before even seeing their first paycheck where a line worker may go through a 3 week training course, if that. You do realize that a 4 year veteran UAW line worker costs GM $74 an hour. Something like $44 of that is wages, then you add 100% matched 401K, full family medical and bonuses you get $77 an hour. That is more than 3 times what ANY assembly line worker makes in any industry. If you offered that job on the open market at $20 an hour, people would come in droves to apply.

I don't give the top brass a free ride in my book. They should only make the big bucks if they make the company big bucks.

GM has one choice in my book. Cut wages from top to bottom in half, and probably more at the top, or file Bankruptcy.

Matt

[Newc]

Going to college vs getting on-the-job training is justification alone? I don't think so.

The people that do the physical work required to produce the product and/or provide the service of the company should be stiffed just because they're not sitting in Capt. Kirk's chair and didn't go to college for their job? I simply do not see it that way. Products and services are not rendered simply because an executive commands it to be so. It takes a workforce to render it, and if that workforce is not being duly compensated, they should be able to say "if you're making millions off my work, I want a tad more than minimum wage".

Granted, the whole idea of making a profit is to take in more than you put out, but as prices increase for materials, why should labor prices not? You need the labor just as much as you need the material, right?

When economic times are booming and you're taking in massive profits, should not the people that physically produced and delivered your product and/or service get a share in the excess? Or should they just be happy they're working?


Executive decisions do not make mega-bucks for a company - the people that execute those decisions do.

Look at it this way: an Engineer designs a product to a certain specification. It looks great on a blueprint. The Boss says "manufacture it", and it gets sent down to a manufacturer who sits on it for 6 months.

6 months later, the executive wants to know where his money is for his product. There's no money because it never got to market.

The Captain can yell "hoist the mainsail" all he wants, but if it doesn't get hoisted, the boat don't go.

We do not live in the simplistic times of "I was hired to do a day's work for a day's pay" anymore. We live in the times of "if I had enough slaves I could have a huge crypt in the shape of a pyramid and stuff all my wealth in it".
So, if Pharoah wants a pyramid, he's gonna come up off the treasure to get it.

[Strangletooth]

:think:

You can't possibly compare a factory worker, line worker or any other "unskilled" or similar laborer to a doctor, lawyer or "any" position of highly skilled labor, can you? Seriously? I agree to some extent of what you're saying about people at the top making millions while the guy at the bottom making minimum wage, but, these people at the top do a lot, don't think they don't, because they do. They assume all of the responsibility of said company, and "a lot" more in most cases. In a lot of cases, these CEO's started the company doing it all, working 16-20hrs a day, every day, sacrificing family time, vacations, basic stuff people that work a "shift" take for granted. Basic stuff like Friday/Saturday night out, sleep on Sunday, get a week off a year, or more.

Most of these CEO's have made their way from the ground up in one way or another, there are very few these days that come out of high school (I dare say college - ) and are placed at ceo/"capt'n" positions. Most people with any type of success with a company started at the bottom or near in some manner, the mail room, janitorial, etc. Hard workers are rewarded in the majority of companies globally, and if they're not, they're in the wrong business or at the wrong company.

As for GM, hell yeh they need to go bankrupt or cut from the top down as Matt said, I agree COMPLETELY! Enough's enough.

[AK47]

We got us a Commie!

[joshulator]

It's not about how important the work is. You are correct that without someone making the product everything else is pointless.
It is, however, about supply and demand. For the time being we are still a capitalist society. That generally means that the more people available for a job, the less the job pays because it's easier to fill the position. The fewer people available for a job, the more the job pays because the available candidates are harder to attract. If there were more doctors and lawyers than the free market needed, their pay would decrease.