Comments on: GM Workers Face Bleak Future

Employees Talk About Pending Pink Slips At One GM Plant In Michigan

[jizzumjim]

this country''s toast. it doesn''t matter who gets bailed out with money we don''t have. we''re just putting off the inevitable. and a couple million houses in foreclosure caused it all. yeah right. if you believe that then you probably believe obama represents change.

[helloall34]

What is a pension anyway? I think the UAW are the only ones that still have this concept, all the rest of us have to save for our own retirement with 401Ks.

[used2bfedup1]

I think the UAW negotiated themselves right out of a job. These ppl want white collar pay and a golden umbrella retirement for poppin rivets.

I heard that 40% of the price of a car is the cost of the retirement plan. Bet Toyota and Honda dont have that problem.

[beachshoe]

part 2
let them go bankrupt and then the cream will rise to the top!

[beachshoe]

Let the Big 3 file bankruptcy. Them and UAW are finally getting their just do. Welcome to the real world. The sad part is the workers get the shaft. Figures!

[Gary Kempf]

GM Workers Face Bleak Future

Yea, That bleak future you see is reality, Scary isn''t it????? Welcome to the rest of America''s reality.

[peacetoyou1]

Bailouts for everybody backed by the goverment is plain and simple- socialism, it wont work. The big 3 have plenty of responsibility, but look at the UAW, who supported Obama? UAW. The unions fight all changes and have for years, they want status quo because its good for them, even if it runs the companies into the ground, lets reward them and bail them out! unless something is done with UAW wages all this bailout money will be wasted.

[ptpeg]

So, this has GM employees on edge? Well, welcome to the world of the rest of the non-UAW workers! When Georgia-Pacific suddenly closed their doors in northern MI mid-2005, ending my husband''s 33 years of employment, all we heard was a lot of tsk, tsk-ing. He worked at another parts manufacturing plant for 8 months before that one closed too...More and more plants and businesses closed in northern MI. We watched all the autoworkers come up every weekend with their ATVs, snowmobiles, boats, and jet-skis. We knew that there wouldn''t be any uproar about job losses until it hit the autoworkers. And we were right...listen to them now!

I hope they were stashing it in the bank all those years they they were getting overtime and triple time and opening factories overseas!

[koyt1]

One worker was quoted about his "pension". I wish I had a pension. Let him draw social security like the rest of us. The UAW guys have been over paid for decades. Now it is time to step into the real world.

[macvb]

I live in NE Ohio and PNC is using their bailout money to purchase National City and ultimately eliminate jobs here. I''m glad federal money was used for this.

[mastersgts]

I find it amusing that the big 3 are asking for 34 billion and congress is all over them. But citibank gets 25 billion, no questions asked. Does citibank have corporate jets, will their ceo work for $1.00 per year, did congress get a plan to ensure citibank does not enter into any further bad debt? If citibank went under what would be the ramifications? Not much, but if the big 3 go under we will go into a depression and more banks would fail because of over 1 million workers unable to pay their mortgages.
What accountability do we have on the 700 billion given to banks? I guess if you are a bank, you just get free money.

[mastersgts]

I dont understand this union administered health plan, do uaw members get health care for life? If so, stop it immediately unless the members themselves want to fund it or cut their salaries by the funding required. Who of you out there get company paid health care after you retire? I know I dont.

[macvb]

hitoyou,

why bso bitter?

[mja721]

hitoyou11, don''t blame the workers for Gm''s horrible mismanagement. The suits made a promise to these workers, they should keep their bargain

[hitoyou11]

I hope they lay them ALL OFF, NOW. Shut them Down. No Bailout, no tax dollars to the UAW are the Auto companies.