The latest regarding VW..........

[piece-itpete]

"......

Bernd Osterloh, the head of the VW works council told German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung: "I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the south again."

This is especially significant since works councils have to approve any decisions to open or close any VW plants and VW has been publicly deciding whether to move some of its U.S. production into Mexico.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily...160128679.html

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Pete

[CarlV]

So? It's their company and its their money.


Carl

[BlueStreak]

Maybe it's a sinister Polish-American conspiracy to manipulate VW into locating near Cleveland, Pete? Hey, we've got open industrial land in Twinsburg...............

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Pete

[piece-itpete]

It comes down to, why the sudden enlightenment? Remember the workers council has as much stake in VW as a corporate entity as management does.

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It comes down to, why the sudden enlightenment? Remember the workers council has as much stake in VW as a corporate entity as management does.

Pete

Uhhh, they read newspapers? They saw how public officials threatened the company and the workers here. I'll bet if that behavior happened in Germany, somebody would be in jail or ridden out of town on a rail.

[BlueStreak]

I'm thinking that, if anything, the unions are finally catching up with globalism and finding ways to collaborate across international borders. They've always claimed to do that, but I don't believe it really amounted to much before. If so;

WORKERS OF THE WORD, UNITE!!!!!!!!

Dave

[Oerets]

Whenever a salary amount is used fringe benefits can be lumped into the total. Things like healthcare 401k match retirement vacation sick overtime anything to make the point they are after. That is how the hourly rate can seem be different the the actual pay per hour.



Barney

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Whenever a salary amount is used fringe benefits can be lumped into the total. Things like healthcare 401k match retirement vacation sick overtime anything to make the point they are after. That is how the hourly rate can seem be different the the actual pay per hour.



Barney

And, it's common to lump total costs for one side of a comparison, but not the other to skew the result.

Dave

[MrPots]

Thinking back, when I left high school in the 70's the job to have was at the Ford assembly plant in St. Louis. Paying $10 per hour, it was a high paying job....

I didn't get one, but still, I lived well enough on the $4.00 an hour job I had.