GM to idle Wentzville due to parts shortage

And people in unions wonder why companies leave the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The economy is in the tank and you people decide to idle plants around the country! That’s just what we need more people out of work.

Bill, are you a moron? What the hell do you propose they people to do without parts to make a car?

The union guys can get paid to stand around…kind of like what happens when they do have parts!

Anyone who thinks a union auto worker just stands around and does nothing has never been in an auto assembly plant. I have worked at GM Wentzville for 8 years and I, nor do my co-workers, just stand around. If we did then how do all of those vans get built everyday?!? People can complain all they want to about unions but you need to understand that nearly 1 out of 7 manufacturing jobs in this country are dependent on the auto industry. I also don’t know of anyone union or not that would not fight tooth and nail if their employer came up and said we are going to cut your salary in half and do away with part of your insurance. I have noticed in my experience of dealing with people who do not like unions they are usually jealous and uninformed.

Hollybeth - If one of my clients said he was cutting my pay, there wouldn’t be anything I could do about it except quit. That’s probably exactly what I’d do. I don’t have the right to stand in front of his business and defame him, and neither should you.

Nick - Does not the constitution guarantee the ability for people to freely state their opinions and ideas and to gather peacefully? Please name a recent autoworkers’ strike that was violent. The employees have the freedom to state whatever opinion they might have of a company’s contract offer. The idea of collective bargaining for better wages and benefits is essentially no different than a company negotiating with a health insurance company to obtain lower coverage costs for its employees.

The only reason that companies go after their employees wages and insurance is that people of the union just take and take and take and do not want to give in return. Union’s look at the company as the enemy and they are the victims. If the union’s would give a little not a lot they would be amazed at what the company would give in return. I worked in the UAW for 20 years and it was a joke and when the plants close down they not give 2 sh&ts about their members.

Hollybeth - I don’t think anyone is referring to the workers at the GM plant or to GM or to the UAW representation of the GM workers. HOWEVER, the American Axle workers and *their* representatives are a different matter.

Do you feel good that you and your company are being put in a bind by someone else?

Hollybeth - If my employer told me they were cutting my salary and benefits I’d be out the door and take my services elsewhere. That’s what an education, hard work and being good at what you do gets you. You don’t put yourself in that position.

I worked in unions in my younger days, and it’s the unions own fault. Selling out their future workers so the few can keep their cushy jobs and benefits while younger or future workers get their pay slashed compared to what the used to be. You don’t need the company to do that to you the union has sold it’s members down the road long ago.