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To further curb costs, GM entered into a four-year labor agreement this week with the United Auto Workers union to encourage the highest-paid hourly workers to retire so the carmaker could employ new workers at lower wages.
The buyout packages of up to $75,000 would be offered by GM to about 10,000 skilled-traded workers. GM would also pay other workers eligible to retire $10,000 if they would stop working in the next two years. GM then would replace them with new hires at the rate of less than $16 an hour.
GM is expected to save $30 an hour for every skilled-trade worker replaced with a lower-paid employee or up to $57,000 yearly per worker, according to the Center for Automotive Research.
Am I reading this right? There are assembly line workers making $46/hour? That's $95,680.00 plus low/no premiums for healthcare and "free" pensions?
no, that's NOT right. the $30 an hour INCLUDES benefits, and it's still overstated.
We bail out GM and now they move jobs to China? It makes me ask WTF??????? :doh
GM enters electric car joint venture with Chinese automaker | AHN
The article doesn't say that the $30 includes benefits. Can you provide a link on that?
In the case of GM (cited by Bachus), the wage for a traditional line worker is actually $29.49 an hour, according to GM spokesman Tony Sapienza. That comes to an annual salary of around $61,300. Comfortable, sure, but a far cry from $156,000.
PolitiFact | Big Three hourly wages inflated
According to Kristin Dziczek of the Center for Automotive Research, which tracks these things, the typical hourly wage for union employees at the Big Three is about $28 an hour. Wages at the nonunion transplant companies range from $14.60 to $28 an hour, she said. Wages vary even among different plants of the same companies, depending on regional wage standards. For example, Toyota pays $27 to $30 an hour at its plant in Kentucky, but just $20 an hour at a Mississippi plant.
Ikari said:It's time to slap huge tariffs on China and give GM the ol' middle finger.
sorry, meant to say......the average worker makes about 30 bucks an hour, not $46. there are other costs of having employees besides salary and benefits. ss, for one. and i know also know personally what the salaries are, given that my husband retired from gm.
Being that China is the largest emerging market for them it only makes sense that they would build more production capacity in China. They have had a Shanghai Buick plant over there for years. When you are talking about items as large and as heavy as a vehicle, many times it's cheaper to produce it in the country you are selling them in rather than ship them around the world. That is why Japanese auto makers build many of their vehicles over here. GM vehicles are quite popular in China.
This is incredibly convoluted. There would be nothing wrong with a company with the technology combining with a company with the need to come together for the benefit of both. That is, if GM helped a Chinese company build cars for the Chinese market that in itself is not a bad thing.
The problem is, the Chinese people can not afford to buy these cars. That being the case, as the article notes, the government buys them for them. It allows these companies to continue paying their employee's just a few bucks keeping costs low which GM will see as an oppertunity to then ship these cars over here at the expense of American employee's.
It's time to slap huge tariffs on China and give GM the ol' middle finger.
as long as they follow all American OSHA and pollution controls, i have no problem with them manufacturing in China for China's emerging market.
where i have a problem is outsourcing production for American market vehicles to China with no OSHA or pollution controls purely to gut labor costs. we simply can't afford to do business that way anymore.
No GM built car has been exported from China to the US, and likely will not for at least 15 years. It does not have the capacity in China, nor will it gain all of the profits, should it do so. Labour and environmental standards in China are improving. Heck Chinese workers for Honda went on strike about 2 years ago for a few months and won a 25% wage increase
i am glad for them. however, i fear that manufacturing is a race to the bottom. as Chinese workers start to stand up for themselves, products will be made in the next zone of abject poverty with no OSHA or pollution controls.
it's my opinion that we should not let those goods into the US market without significant tariffs.
let's export American worker safety standards and humane manufacturing practices.
China sold more cars then the US did last year. China is the number 2 or 3 market for many european luxury brands. Buick sells more cars in China then the US.
As for GM in China. GM already has a partnership in China with SAIC called simply enough SAIC-GM, as the majority of car makers are not allowed to set up plants in China without a local partner. SAIC also partners with VW, who also partners with FAW in China. If GM wants to sell cars in China it has to be able to build them in China as US built cars would be too expensive to sell in China. No jobs are being lost in the US because of this. As a side note GM China is a profitable enterprise, making money for GM, helping it to pay back the US government. So far China has not exported any cars to the US, and GM is very unlikely to start to do so. It does source or has sourced some engines from China. This joint venture is being created to allow GM to sell hybrid/electric cars in China, a market it would be stupid to left out off.
I disagree with your assessment.
GM took tax payer dollars to survive and now they are taking jobs to China. There seems to be a train of thought in here of, oh well all corps do that but the difference is all corps didn’t take tax payer dollars to survive, they should have to operate at a different level. Did we save GM that was ostensibly too big to fail just so they could move to China? Unions can’t be happy and Obama can’t be happy either. In essence we all got the middle finger from GM.
We bail out GM and now they move jobs to China? It makes me ask WTF??????? :doh
GM enters electric car joint venture with Chinese automaker | AHN
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