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  1. LOL! nice crackback goblue! that was bloody brilliant (for an american :P ) long live the truck!
  2. the point might be that MPG could have been even better and utterly crushed the competition. with any luck that 6 speed will be in all models or 2008. that damned 3rd row.... how can a trailblazer have a better 3rd row? good truck otherwise. i can sell a few dozen of those. B)
  3. i cant believe you guys dont know tom wait! after all he did have one song back in the 80's :lol: the song was called "i aint missing you" i think. i'm assuming this is that guy.
  4. Razoredge, What do you think they are making with all that steel? ricebowls? china is probably the biggest reason why this topic is as important as it is. their labour costs are a fraction of ours and their capacity no where close to being full. they are the biggest boogeyman that organized labour is facing, whether you realize it or not. the unions must become relevant to today's marketplace. they must find a way to work with the manufacterers to "level the field" as others have put it. this whole discussion is about the union vs company because that is something that can be changed. people make up the union and the company and people can turn this death spiral around. the price of steel will be whatever it is. everyone has to deal with it.
  5. you cant really compare "moving chairs" to electrical work or nuclear power ops can you? that is asinine. the whole point of that story is that one should be able to differentiate between a trivial task and a job that requires expertise. your mindless rule following is exactly the type behaviour that pisses people off and generates anti union stories. dont get me wrong, i understand that rules are there specifically to keep guys like me from picking up an arc welder or something i have no business playing with. but to take that rule to the ridiculous extreme of chair moving is, well, ridiculous. ps. i have also been through "chair lifting" training. that is the subject of a whole other post called the Safety Nazis. dont get me started on that one. <_<
  6. the reason? its simple. since we still have 100 plus units of 2005 iron which we need to sell, thats where the emphasis is. brochures and web info will be abundant in a few weeks i bet.
  7. i might never understand people's aversion to superchargers. the thing has one freaking moving part! how do you simpler than that? if you can remember to get it serviced every 40k or so they should last you forever. superchargers rule! B) Cobalt SS BTW
  8. Razoredge, Im curious, would you admit that one of the driving forces behind the mass export of manufacturing jobs is labour cost? what do you suggest the UAW should do to prevent those jobs from going overseas? i fail to see what options the union has in this battle. overseas labour is waaaaay cheaper than north american labour, that is a fact to which we can agree. what's worse than that is that those guys probably dont give a damn about your welfare and will do whatever they can to keep winning work. as long as that that remains the case, these jobs will keep going away. that's a reality that i dont like at all. maybe because i sell gm cars in a heavily unionized town i understand how much we need each other. no factories=no customers= me flipping hamburgers/starring in porn/insert crappy job here to feed my family. what is your solution?
  9. To stay relevant, unions must do a better job of public relations, Shaiken of UC-Berkley said. "The public has been inundated for decades by an anti-union message," he said. If unions are to survive in today's competitive global economy, they must be willing to work with management in solving mutual problems, including recognizing that the health care costs are hobbling many employers, said Jules I. Crystal, a Chicago labor attorney. "The unions have to go beyond the knee-jerk reflex that management is always wrong," said Crystal, a University of Michigan law school graduate who represents management in labor disputes. "They have to take a more flexible, innovative approach." i always love this debate when it comes up. there is no mistaking which side of the fence someone is on. and the love... oh well, on to my point. the above quote is from the original article that started this love fest. i defy anyone to argue its point: stay relevant or perish. if the unions (and their members) dont come to understand that the world has changed, they will be left behind one way or another. that bit about the airline mechanics that were brought in to replace union guys could just as easily happen to CAW/UAW, except that it will be workers in mexico/china/timbuktu that are doing the work, and we will never see those jobs back in north america.
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