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This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from feds

This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from fedsReadying your champagne, Harry?Is the bottle on ice? Are you ready to laugh and celebrate the loss of jobs in Detroit? Real people, real families, real homes?Why, yes! Big old evil automobile manufacturers, and the henchmen that assemble the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Manufacturing, Benefits, Strategy, payroll solutions, OK IT, Corker, worker, Shrinking, government, UAW

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Perils of Detroit: What's the Deal?

Perils of Detroit: What's the Deal?fyihttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/07/krugman-us-auto-industry_n_149082.htmlNot a pretty picture.

Tags: Perils

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

SAG follows the path blazed by the UAW

SAG follows the path blazed by the UAWNo one ever said union members where intelligentof course they will cut off their noses to spite their faces.The union leaders the ones living the good life do not want smart members, just dues paying sheep.Unions were critical at one time, not anymore...There...

Tags: UAW

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

SAG follows the path blazed by the UAW

The Screen Actors Guild SAG is starting a fight over union rules as they apply to Internet-only productions. If they win, they are likely to shift even more content creation opportunities away from major studios in a futile attempt to hinder evolution in a market changed dramatically by technology....

Tags: Union, UAW, Media, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Car crash imminent?

Car crash imminent?Fire the AUW workers and hirepeople who actually want to work for a raise, not just come in and do the bare minimum as they receive the same raise regardless of how much or little they work.It is not the government's fault, it is the UAW and the...

Tags: Benefits, UAW, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency

Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiencyOh absolutely!Of course you won't mind when other countries take exactly the same view and don't import without really high tariffs goods from the US will you? ;)RE: Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiencywhat the government needs to do is put a stop...

Tags: Free trade, Chapter 11, fuel efficiency, worker, UAW

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar

Help Steve Jobs Or GM Design The iCarPLEASE............And I suppose when it needs a new battery...I have to spend USD$5,000.00 to ship the car back to Stevie Boy to get it replaced?And is he going to limit what type of fuel it runs on, and how often I can fill...

Tags: iCAR, Steve Jobs, car, UAW, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Can UAW strike push health care reform to front burner?

Can UAW strike push health care reform to front burner?Escaping obligationsThe two main company-provided benefits are, of course, pensions and medical insurance payments. Defined pension plans are disappearing. One way to end them is to close down the plan as of a date and place a definite amount...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, UAW Strike, UAW

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Can UAW strike push health care reform to front burner?

Is there any chance that the UAW strike against General Motors, which began at 11 AM today, will push health care reform to the front burner of this Congress and this Administration? The issue in this strike is health care. Both sides have already agreed to push...

Tags: UAW, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-24

Was OpenSolaris a Mistake?

Was OpenSolaris a Mistake?Not getting itPeople like Anton there are many just don't understand the power of open source. Never mind the myriad of examples of no-nothing software becomming world leaders LAMP. "Give and you shall receive", has never been embraced by so-called "religious" big-business, republican demogogs. Never mind that...

Tags: UNIX, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., UAW, software, Intel x86, Sun Solaris, Linux, Wallmart

Discussion threads 2005-11-09

Additional Resources

Democrats lack votes for health care reform

It's amazingWhen Republicans are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. When Democrats are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. Who's running that show anyway?Carl RapsonRepublicansRepublicans will continue to run Washington until the assumptions underlying their rule change. This is good news.We dont need to overhaul a system that...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nope, Obama, insurance, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

For your safety and convenience

Not intended as a political commentI cite Obama's disregard of the law and basic ethical principles because it's public, obvious, and widely known - not because it's dispicable (getting people to think about that is a bonus.)The right way to deal with policy opponents is to defend your own policies...

Tags: Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-05

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?Not quite the sameSo, Ford presents a plan to develop and implement new technology in their vehicles to improve efficiency and competitiveness, thereby securing a loan from the DOE.GM goes to Washington, along with the UAW, and begs for money to...

Tags: Government, Personal finance, taxpayer, Socialists, TAXPAYERS, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Will health IT go to the usual suspects?

Will health IT go to the usual suspects?Health care is GE's market to loseWhat does this latest Chrysler nonsense tell us? UAW, the very organization that took the company down along w/ the bad management, got the lions share of bankruptcy protection while the bond holders were screwed. Why? Well,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Litigation, Obama, health-IT, usual suspect, General Electric Co., health care

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

DOJ signals newly vigorous antitrust enforcement

DOJ signals newly vigorous antitrust enforcementoppositeEvery time this administration says it is gonna do something ... it has done the oppositeTiming is everythingHow convenient for Microsoft that they had the DOJ in their corner when it counted, and now that the heat is coming back on it's Google's turn.Imaine if...

Tags: Corporate law, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding

General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingHave You Been To A Dealer Lately?Look at the Saturn Aura, Chevy Malibu, Pontiac G6 and Saab 9-3. They are all on the same platform Epsilon. Do they all look alike?RE: General Motors: It's Time for a RebrandingI guess you don't realize that the...

Tags: Branding, American Auto Industry, cost difference, General Motors Corp., car, Cadillac

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

India's Nano to challenge global auto industry

India's Nano to challenge global auto industryWhy don't we have a Nano in this country?What we need in a global market place is tech like this to even our costs out here in the states. If we are to compete with a world economy and try to make ends...

Tags: car, Nano

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Report: China's IT spending remains strong

Report: China's IT spending remains strongYes, spam never stopsntSure, they have our jobs!Tides of turned. People in the USA are fed up with "made in china" and are beginning to boycott. The power is in the hands of the US consumer and we're getting louder and louder about...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, made-in-China, job, IT-spending

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

I won't have to blog about the Detroit automakers again until next year

Congratulations, fellow American, you and I are now part-owners or at least managers in absentia of two of the most crippled manufacturing companies on earth--that being General Motors and Chrysler. Should we urge a merge? How many more billions of dollars will we fork over before this nightmare...

Tags: Detroit, Blog, Chrysler LLC, Loan, T, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Economic crash = car crash in America

Economic crash = car crash in AmericaI am sure you are quite upset at the thoughtthat the shutdown is only for 4 weeks, and not forever.Crash and burn, babyChryPly hasn't been on strong footing in a long time, even long before Daimler tripped all over themselves and "merged" with them....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, car, Economic crash, job

Discussion threads 2008-12-18