Well I guess you have all heard the news. Monday GM announced that they will close the Oklahoma City assembly Facility.
\nI worked for a GM contractor for 2.5 years and was laid off last Oct. and guess what the UAW did not do squat for us. We were told “that’s just how it goes” well now the rest of the workers out there are now in the same boat, and as I do empathize with all of them I will cry no tears for them.
\nThey will now see what the rest of us have had to deal with for the last 26 years.
\nGetting up going to work.
\nNot knowing if you will have a job when you get there.
\nHaving no say in your job (Do it or we will find someone who will).
\nHaving no grievance procedure against management.
\nLiving from paycheck to paycheck.
\nHaving to pay a premium for health Insurance.
\nETC.
\nAnd they have done it to themselves, $25.50 to $45.00 per hour wages, free Insurance, now there is nothing wrong with making a living wage, but 5times what the average for this area! Come on get real.
\nWhere I feel sorry for some out there is most of them have no marketable skills, this is the only job that lots of them have ever had, and the average age of them is 52 years old, thats a little old to be starting over.
\nAlso I guess GM does not care about the support companies that exist for the sole purpose of suppling this plant, and all of their workers that they have just unemployed.
\nAs long as the board of Directors, and Stockholders NEVER EVER have to do without.
\nThe employees of those companies are who my sadness is directed, some of those persons are quite possibly some of the finest persons I have ever known and worked with.
\nJohnson Controls Inc.
\nCollins and Aikman.
\nA-1 Rework services
\nQPS.
\nFlex-N-Gate. Ada OK.
\nChoctaw Express Inc.
\nLogistics Insights Co.
\nPenske Logistics.
\nand last but certainly not least
\nLogistics Services Inc. LSI (you don’t go thru a tornado with people and not grow close to them) My drivers I had there are the finest crew that I ever had the pleasure of working with, and treasure their friendship tremendously.
\nThe employees of those companies are who I wish all of you to keep in your thoughts and prayers (if applicable) this holiday season.
\nI can only hope that this will be a wakeup call to the UAW that they can’t have everything they want, sometimes when negotiating on the employees behalf they have to look at the big picture as well as the future.
\nI have heard so many reasons this couple of days, the reason simply is with the UAW, Workers, and the Fat Cats in Detroit. No More, No Less.
\n“The fault dear Brutus lies not within our stars, but within our selves”
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