https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/10/25/parma-gm-plant-layoff-139-more-workers-effective-wednesday/
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"Tell the thousands of engineers working on those products now to build them cheaper"
This is the perspective of the uninformed. The perspective of someone with almost no apparent critical thinking.
+Do you really think an engineer can control what goes into a car? It's features, the styling, the utility? NO! This is decided by marketing people and upper management, based on competitor offerings and the "voice of the customer".
+Do you really think an engineer has the kind of leverage to force a supplier to sell at lower prices? To somehow arrange for lower labor costs, raw materials, building costs, manufacturing equipment??? These are just some of the cost inputs when producing an automobile.
+I'm going to call our Chinese lithium suppliers on Monday and demand cheaper costs. Then I'm going to tell LG Chem at the factories in Ohio and Tennessee making Ultium batteries that we need a discount. Then I'm going to tell marking we need to cut the range in half to produce a battery that is half the size. Because some guy on thelayoff is smarter than everyone and has a brilliant plan. Should be a slam dunk. I'll report my success back here on Tuesday.
Tell the thousands of engineers working on those products now to build them cheaper, because they're priced too high for consumers to buy but still have a low profit margin for GM.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-gm-and-even-tesla-are-warning-about-the-ev-market-194905657.html
"We are also moderating the acceleration of EV production in North America to protect our pricing, adjust to slower near-term growth in demand, and implement engineering efficiency and other improvements that will make our vehicles less expensive to produce, and more profitable," CEO Mary Barra said in her Q3 shareholder letter. GM, in pushing back its EV truck expansion earlier this month, noted “evolving EV demand” as the main reason why it was slowing its EV truck volumes.
"Now that she's putting EVs on hold"
Says who? Where's your source?
If EVs are on hold, someone needs to tell the thousands of engineers and designers working at the Warren Tech Center. We are working on those products right now (and have been for years) and as far as I know, a huge percentage of our new product portfolio will be EVs.
Until I see some concrete proof, I'm calling this one bull sh!t.
Mary always said she couldn't give employees a good raise because she wanted to spend every dollar on converting to EVs.
Now that she's putting EVs on hold, that frees up billions of dollars for employees and maybe the strike will be over soon.
Or she can spend it all on stock buybacks to raise stock prices then cash in some options.
So what items were agreed upon in the Ford negotiations off of the long laundry list of demands that kept folks home for 6 weeks ?
Just the money ?
The Parma General Motors plant will face a second round of layoffs within the last month effective Wednesday.
Parma Mayor Tim DeGeeter confirmed Tuesday that 139 workers will face layoffs tomorrow, reaching a total of 269 in the last month.
“We have said repeatedly that nobody wins in a strike, and this is yet another demonstration of that fact. We will continue to bargain in good faith with the union to reach an agreement as quickly as possible,” General Motors said in a statement earlier this month.
19 News reached out to General Motors and Parma’s UAW Local 1005, but have not yet heard back.