GM’s Layoffs Made Possible by Weak Unions, Automatization, and Bad Priorities

1. As a contractor at several gm plants, all I can say is these are the most entitled, lazy,arrogant workers I have ever seen in my entire career. No where else can yoU sleep at work and get angry for being woken to perform your Job. Good riddance gm! And your LAZY crews

2. It's not the union fault. It the CEO fault for making poor decisions. I'm union man. We go bye what management tells what they want. And there nothing Trump can do. Where is his fucking magic wan now. If he so smart lol. May be he should tariff Gm cars coming in this country. Because he won't because he is corrupt with big corporations

3. The entire profit strategy for the idle investor class has been to fire Western civilization workers and exploit slaves in tyrant countries overseas. Their profit vision is not about innovation, it's class based profits from enslavement worldwide and 75% unemployment in West. There are huge GM car sells in China, they just don't want to pay US workers to build them.

4. Who can afford new cards and student loan debts…nothing is getting cheaper…housing is sky high you need to making 150k+ a year as a family to make it…also as a life long GM fan…I've owned 6 cars they are crap…all needed major repairs right after 36,001 miles and the dealership network is lazy…I went foreign and the cars and dealers are better

5. I guess Trump's magic wand isn't working.

6. Gas tax should adjust dynamically to maintain a $3 per gallon floor. 
   Municipalities should negotiate 25, 50, 75 year plant closure/payout clause when they subsidize new facilities.

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8. GM layoffs made possible by weak unions caused by bought out, crooked and corrupt elected governmental officials who turn their backs on the everyday citizens, workers, and the country, for the benefit of the wealthy, big business, and big finance.

   An economy is supposed to work for ALL of the citizens, for a country to be truly strong and sustainable it has to. Pathetically since 1980 the U.S. economy has been about nothing but big corporate profits and the stock markets.

   The outsourcing of jobs couldn't be more clear about saying, screw you working people that are earning decent to good living wages, have healthcare, and retirement accounts, that money and value should be going to the executives, investors, and the stock markets.. Shift wealth from the middle and lower incomes to the upper income people.

9. Nope they gonna send cars here to America and scrap jobs in America the usual culprits are Americans

10. These plants are gone for good. GONE WITH THE WIND. GM's answer is Mexico production. Maybe one of two of these plants will be re-tooled for "Robot Automobile Production>" Robots don't take vacations or need health insurance. UAW better get employees Very Good severance packages ! GM is cutting costs without human concern, after the Government bailed them out. THE SHIP HAS SAILED ! per Canada !

11. Cuz there building a new big facility in Texas they don't care about yall Haha crooked corporate bastereds

12. Uaw is half the problem

13. driverless car lol I can't wait till the lawsuits come rolling in from that junk imaging tech running over ppl. It has been a dead end technology since 1991 plagued with one prob after the next. Highways are gonna be a lot more dangerous.

14. Weak unions making sure workers get $40 hour and health insurance and retirement plans that rival congress. Poor poor workers can’t make overpriced cars anymore. They closed because people aren’t going to pay 35 grand for a basic car just to support overpaid workers

15. Was it a weakening of unions, outsourcing, or is it competition that is driving corporations to export their production?
    Competition coerces corporations to gain a larger share of the world market and it forms a new social average.
    Outsourcing and union busting are the weapons all the corporations have been using against the working classes.
    If government made outsourcing illegal would that eliminate competition? 
    If we did this the means is restricted but the end, aim of competition in markets, is left intact to resurface again in the future.
    Workers can't be shortsighted about this tendency. It is not how but why the cost of labor-power is continually reduced.
    The aim of the corporations is to increase wealth and it does so by reducing the cost of production. 
    GM has presented a substantial reduction in production costs by firing its work force! 
    This is a serious blow to Ohio working class communities and elsewhere depending on GM, Harley, etc.. 
    Workers will have to figure out for themselves the decision to cut labor by corporation is perfectly a rational one within the framework of competition.

16. What a simplistic explanation as to why people are buying SUV's. Because they aren't aware of environmental issues? Really? Or maybe it's because some people have larger families and need a vehicle that can accommodate their family. Not going to get multiple kids, the family dog and mom and dad into a smart car. Or maybe people enjoy the outdoors, want a vehicle they can take camping, which can tow a trailer or a boat or whatever. Perhaps people's jobs require them to haul a lot of stuff. The issue isn't SUV's, the issue is we don't have the infrastructure in place on a widespread basis that would allow everyone to transition to electric vehicles. Another is the cost of such vehicles which could come down if governments stopped subsidizing fossil fuels and instead subsidized green renewable energy.

17. I think we should give GM a demotion. 'Colonel Motors,' for now. 'CM,' for short!

18. I think both commentators needed a cup of coffee. Everyone sounds like they just awoke, from a nap!

19. NO! It was made possible by TARP, QE1, QE2, and Trump Tax Cuts. GM milked the U.S. as much as possible so time to pack up and move to Mexico. Hopefully GM will leave Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump a nice Christmas gift.

20. If you build them (gas guzzlers), people will buy them. Gm should be designing and selling climate friendlier vehicles.

21. Tipping point is on the way. No jobs=no money to spend=no sales=bankruptcy! Duh.

22. Lots of jobs in food security, free transit and building eco homes for all

23. Driverless cars are coming way sooner then a few decades. Time to retrain workers for green jobs of the present and future

24. Take Over the factory!!! 😂

25. Time for a Basic Income Guarantee for a Just Transition!

26. Nationalize GM!

27. But….but…but tax cuts and bailouts are supposed to CREATE jobs? WTF is going on?

28. Invest in Free Transit Now!

29. blame Reagan for killing unions & Clinton for NAFTA. there are other factors, but those are the main two.

30. It’s a long term problem, you must think long term and for profit corporations only think in terms of quarterly profits and bonuses.

31. We bailed out these jerks.  They owe the American people a huge debt.  #BoycottGeneralMotors.

32. Thanks for reporting on this. US Corporate Media fails us.

33. The only way for our economy could have truly recovered in 2008 was if our federal government prime the pump with a F.D.R. New Deal deficit spending program for the working class and not just deficit spending for the private banking industry the way Bush and Obama did with T.A.R.P. (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and the GM bailout program. But because Bill Clinton and the Republicans repealed F.D.R.'s Glass Steagall Act and then brainwashed the American public into thinking that "deficit spending" is only "good" when it come to banks and big corporations, but "bad" when it comes to 99%–the working class keeps getting ripped off decade after decade.

    In recent years there only seem to be New Deal deficit spending when it comes to the 1% getting huge tax cuts and to pay for the War-for-Profit industry, and then nothing but EMPTY POCKETS when it comes to any New Deal spending for the 99% working class. That is NOT how F.D.R. wanted New Deal spending to work! He wanted the New Deal to work for whole society, and not just for the few 1% kleptocrats, oligarchs and war profiteers at the top.

    Article One, Section Eight of the U.S. constitution mandates that Congress mint (create funds) and tax (valuing the dollar) to provide for the general welfare of society.

    Fear and propaganda about "The Deficit!" is the red herring the 1% kleptocrats in power always use to keep the working class from having essential and good things like Medicare-for-All and a Federal Jobs Guarantee program.

    There are plenty of federal funds available for policy programs like Medicare-for-all, a Federal Jobs guarantee or a Green New Deal for the working class, if our elected representatives in CONGRESS only had the bold political will and courage–like F.D.R. did–to step up to the plate and make it happen for the 99% working class.

    Economics professor Stephanie Kelton dispels the myths and disinformation regarding "National Deficit" and the "National Debt" parroted by economically illiterate from both Republicans and Neoliberal politicians in our government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-BKa3M

34. Look, boys and girls, capitalism is the crisis! Labor leaders are middle class now and have lost all militancy. When workers finally found out they working class and take a stand, then things will change.

35. in the future robotic made products will be bought by the robots themselves.

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