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It is official, General Motors is finished in Australia
11 years ago
Well, it is official. General Motors executives have pulled the plug on Holden, with the company to cease operations in 4 years time. The figures make for appalling and saddening reading. 2,900 workers to go in the next 4 years with a flow on effect in that industry and its related industries, of around 50,000 jobs.
Clearly GM executives only care about their wallets and not the livelihoods of Australian workers. I strongly urge all Australians to abandon any product made by a GM owned company in favor of something, ANYTHING, still made here.
Also, I urge anyone who reads this message and actually cares about this country, its workers and its industrial history and future, to go this this page here https://www.facebook.com/generalmotors# and express your annoyance and disappointment, be as harsh as you like, they deserve it.
I ask that you pass this message on, to your friends, on your timeline, in your groups, everywhere. This company needs to know what they have done is a mistake that will haunt them from now until the company crumbles under the mismanagement that it has been subject too for far too long.
To hell with General Motors, if they are not going to support its Australian workforce, then Australians shouldn't support them.
Clearly GM executives only care about their wallets and not the livelihoods of Australian workers. I strongly urge all Australians to abandon any product made by a GM owned company in favor of something, ANYTHING, still made here.
Also, I urge anyone who reads this message and actually cares about this country, its workers and its industrial history and future, to go this this page here https://www.facebook.com/generalmotors# and express your annoyance and disappointment, be as harsh as you like, they deserve it.
I ask that you pass this message on, to your friends, on your timeline, in your groups, everywhere. This company needs to know what they have done is a mistake that will haunt them from now until the company crumbles under the mismanagement that it has been subject too for far too long.
To hell with General Motors, if they are not going to support its Australian workforce, then Australians shouldn't support them.
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All claim that the costs of manufacturing in Australia are too expensive and the production volumes too low to further justify local production, it's cheaper to ship the cars there, and all say that Australian manufacturing was only started in the first place because of high import tariffs on cars manufactured elsewhere and generous subsidies from the government to the automotive industry, both of which no longer exist and the political will to re-instate either has apparently fallen out of favor with voters.
If you want the situation to change I think the only hope is to try to convince your government to impose higher taxes on imported cars.
Its been no secret that GMH Ford and Toyta are fucked, blame the unionists for that for thinking the car industry is a giant cash cow and demanding more money for less work done by unskilled workers. Same retarded union thinking is suffocating the ports with whinging fucking wharfies going on strike and getting top dollar for only operating a single lever for a shift. Its out right insulting too see a collect of people with so much power as to twist an industry too its knees.
Iveco still makes heavy vehicles at GM's old engine plant in South East Melbourne.