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A bankrupt company was probably pressuring (and late paying) their suppliers. Pilots and flight attendants hear all the banko rumors and get stressed before the filing and worry about their jobs and pensions after the filing. Ditto the mechanics, and they are pressured by their supervisors to work faster, harder, cheaper. Makes you want to fly with a more solvent outfit eh?
Apples and oranges are both fruit, roundish, have seeds, skins you can peel. Blood oranges are red. Golden Orange and Pippens are orange apples. Lots of similarities. :P
With the autoakers, we have many, MANY disgruntled workers assembling something for a company they resent...note all the union problems and acts of sabotage noted earlier in these posts...if only 20% are true, that is meaningful...plus, UAW workers simply do not have the skills of airline mechanics...
Like I said, buying a seat for a flight is no big deal, as the company can simply fly their planes while in Ch 11...as for making cars in, or after, Ch 11, knowing the same idiots who put it into Ch 11 are still making the cars, is quite different, esp when there are alternatives to GM and C...
It might be different if Boeing or Airbus was bankrupt, but the airline simple uses the plane, and maintains it...they don't make it...UAW make the product, and we have seen where that has taken the Big 3...that part cannot change...
That certainly is an overstatement.
Stories of disgruntled worker sabotage have become urban legends. Indeed in the last decade and more the part time worker at Toyota Georgetown more likely would sagotage things due to their being throwaway workers never hoping to consummate their gaining a full time position as they thought when they were hired.
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It seems that doing a hard launch or using the launch control system occasionally results in a broken output shaft,
Can't really fault GM for it though since Tremec makes the unit...
I don't know if someone is going to be able to hang this one on UAW workers or not. It sounds like an engineering design problem or material quality control problem.
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Well, a pilot walking around an Airbus on the pre-flight isn't going to notice the crimped line that's about to fail that some disgruntled A&P mechanic bent 100 hours of flight time ago.
Obama is going to Michigan. "The appearance will be picketed by angry General Motors retirees who are non-UAW. They claim over 120,000 retirees have lost billions of dollars in health care and other benefits not protected by the “new” GM." WKZO
Lear isn't taking on the UAW sitting down:
"Lear told The Wall Street Journal that it has flown salaried workers to Arlington from around the country to maintain production. The company is trying to get the UAW to cut its total hourly wage and benefit rate to $35 from $43. "
Supplier's labor strife could hurt GM Arlington plant (Dallas Morning News)
Amazing that all this change and openness that was promised doesn't give a townhall where people of all types could have input to our president. Instead it's a closed college group who gets the tickets!!!
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That's a good idea.
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Sounds like a wishful opinion based upon no facts.
Heheeeee.
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You are most correct comrade.
U.S.S.R. = United States Socialist Republic
There is no turning back now. The cards have been dealt.
Haven't seen any facts that all those part time workers at Georgetown who thought they were cycling into full time jobs are happier campers than UAW workers at $45 hour base or whatever. :P ?????
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Bob, you are right about once the flight is over, your dealings are through, as opposed to buying a car that you will have for several years. One caveat though;
How sure are you that the "bankrupt airline" will do it's pre and post flight inspections as diligently as they would in better times? You don't think there could be pressure by lower to middle management to say "close enough" or "just fill out the forms" so they look good and save money, possibly "saving" their jobs (provided the flight is successful).
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Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
BTW...this topic went from life-support to back to sprinting...I thought I might have nothing to say to no one...of course, to some, I have nothing to say anyway...
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will say in Michigan, a state hard-hit by the downturn in the car industry, that some auto industry jobs that have been lost will not be returning.
"(The) hard truth is that some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won't be coming back," Obama will say, according to prepared remarks released by the White House.
"They are casualties of a changing economy. And that only underscores the importance of generating new businesses and industries to replace the ones we've lost, and of preparing our workers to fill the jobs they create," Obama says in the remarks.
I have to wonder what those jobs may be? I am thinking learning to dig caves for US all to live in when he gets his Cap N Trade going real good. We are headed for the dark ages with all his programs. The UAW just had further to fall than most.
Yeah, but GM isn't bankrupt anymore
".....BTW...this topic went from life-support to back to sprinting...I thought I might have nothing to say to no one...of course, to some, I have nothing to say anyway..."
As if I don't have enough to do, more Sh&$ to read
The Cha Ching continued even when I was producing less than I should have been. It is one of the negatives associated with Unions. Blogging on company time was my way of getting even with management for being so stupid. It was especially gratifying when the boss was sitting across the desk from me and I was typing responses and talking to him at the same time. Of course you have to be able to multitask to pull that off.
But, on the other hand, when you produced as much as you could, your boss (or more likely your boss' boss' boss) was still unhappy, and probably wishes he could've replaced you with someone willing to pay him to let you do your job, so he could make even more money. (OK an overexaggeration) But the union kept him from doing things like that at will.
Just to keep the record straight. We never went on strike and we never pushed beyond what the company could afford to pay. As a not for profit cooperative the financial books were open to all. Unlike the UAW that went for the throat every time and finally hit the jugular vein sending the Auto Industry into the toilet.
(Please throw the brickbats at my brother, who emailed me the joke. Actually I guess you could substitute your favorite automaker in place of the UAW).
Did you learn to select the minimize button on the top-right corner of your screen real well? :shades:
I do use my minimize button liberally! :P Or just hit the top right 'X'.
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ALT/TAB it is then. :P
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My boss is in Toronto and it's highly unlikely that I'll ever meet her in person ... one of the great benefits to working for a multinational corporation and also working from home.
gagrice? marsha? cooter? What your'all's take on our boy from MI? The boy's really serious, huh? He's sick of us. :sick:
And not luv-sic, either.
cooter, nope, mine was perty much the same. Men can be so much the same!
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The bad part is hearing that Bob worries about his boss when he's self employed....
The bad part is hearing that Bob worries about his boss when he's self employed....
Makes one wonder if marsha had a nasty-mean Boss in his past at some point, huh?
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All I've ever seen is a picture that is about 160x160 dpi (no, I'm not gonna post it here, so don't even ask), but she's not completely unattractive.
She is, however, younger than me, which is a bit odd, but I suppose that as I get older, I should start getting used to it.
:sick:
rockylee must be runnin' down a dream of some sorts. :confuse: For people like Tom Petty, that's fine, but what about people like rockford?
I'm just baitin' him a little, friends.
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Mots guys working for big firms can put in 60-plus hours a week...yes, they make the $$$, but you know the old saying...when you are lying on your deathbed, no one ever says "I wish I spent more time at the office"...when the work load increases, I work more...
gagrice: I tried ALT/TAB and nothing happens...I thought it would minimize...and if it did, how does one reverse the process???
As far as rocky...I hope he has found some steady employment...I wonder if the dealerships he worked at (Beth, too) are still in business...another possibility...he finally realized what we said about overpaid UAW workers was correct, and he was thrown for a loop from the realization of truth...kinda like waking up one day, as a boy named Don Corleone Jr, and realizing that when everybody calls your father a mobster, it was the truth...:):):):):):):)
ALT-TAB simply allows you to cycle through your open applications within Windows, not minimize the active application.
Depending on where you work, the IT people can set up monitoring of what you do on PC on "company time". I had a boss once, department head, that would route printout phone details of each employee throughout the department. That tended to clean up and reduce the amount of misuses of company resources. Each employee had to sign off that he/she read their own details.
Getting kind of on-topic, do/did UAW employess on line have opps to use phones or PCs for personal use..
Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions
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