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Originally Posted by danzvtil
I’m astounded at everyone crucifying GM in the us for cutting 15k jobs. They’re cutting their cloth as any business should, and actually doing the other 165k workers a favour.
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and Ford let their cars slide even worse but they had an agenda to move that
production space to Ranger, Aviator and more Utilities, so they get a pass in
my books because no one loses their jobs.
I've been following GM and Ford in the US for years and from my observations,
this has been a long time coming and completely engineered by GM.
First we have to go back to late 2014 when GM NA first introduced its upgraded
Cruze, Malibu and Impala but not wanting to kill the resale value of the new cars,
GM kept the superseded versions going to fleets as classics and limiteds but
as you could imagine, this bombed terribly and GM was stuck with loads of
unsold crap they basically quick saled off....
Not long after that, GM got religion of retail sales and sliced off almost all of its
daily rental fleet sales business....the down side of that brainiac move was to kill
all third shifts in at least four plants, further decline in sales was due to GM's
cars being less attractive to buyers than newer better vehicles at Toyota and Honda.
It's totally inept management that now sees them with at least five car plants
on one shift and them choosing to shutter at least four of them about the time
it and the UAW will begin negotiating the next labor contract..how coincidental.
GMNA still has more plants it could cull but isn't quite there yet....