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Originally Posted by RLS
The “Jobs Bank” concept was pioneered by Japanese auto companies, who have had a no layoff policy in place for many years. The policies currently in place at Honda and Toyota, which pay workers full salary for an indefinite period, are more generous than job security programs in UAW-negotiated contracts.
Rick
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So your defense for "job banks" which people sit in for years is that its good in Japan? Didn't Japan just have a catastrophic economic meltdown a few years ago?
Making 28.00 on an assembly line is insane. Its a no-skill job. I've worked assembly lines and packing lines before... no skill needed other then to show up and have working extremities. Plus that 28.00 is what the worker is paid, that doesn't include the excellent benefits or the pension plan.
There is no reason anyone should be working at a company that has been losing a billion+ a quarter for the last 2 years that isn't working to produce. Salaries should be slashed across the board from the top to the bottom, Shifts should be stopped and workers laid off.
Its called "cutting the fat". Saving 100K a year by not having a personal plane is a nice gesture... now cut 200 Million a year by trashing the job banks. Cut another 500 Million a year by reducing benefits or signfigantly increasing employee contribution. Save another 500 Million a year by reducing pension matching. Save another 250 Million a year by forcing early retirement and hiring new people at the low wages. Save a billion a year by eliminating 3rd shift and consolidating plants. Or close plants completely and shift business to larger more streamlined / modern plants.
Its simple economics, If your company is losing money then money must be cut from the spending to balance out what is being earned.
And if you are going to walk over to the Gov't and ask for money make damn sure you know where you need that money to go! Have the gov't cover the pensions! Take that 25 billion + whatever capital can be raised. Give it to whoever manages the pension fund and say "This is all you get until we turn a profit. Make it last".
And anyone that wants to strike over this unfair deal means they don't need the job. Fire them, you walk off the job you are no longer employed. This is business, its not gov't. If you want to protest you feel free to do that after your shift is over or before it starts.