Mary Barra Issues Statement After Meeting US States Over Job Cuts
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra has issued an official statement following her meeting with congressional delegations from Michigan, Ohio and Maryland.
Barra was meeting with lawmakers from the three states following GM’s decision to close its Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission plants in Michigan, Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio and Baltimore Operations facility in Maryland. The decision is expected to impact 6,000 salaried employees and put the jobs of another 3,300 hourly workers at risk.
“I had a very constructive meeting today with members of the Michigan congressional delegation,” Barra said in a prepared statement. “I share their concerns about the impact the actions we announced last week will have on our employees, their families and the communities. These were very difficult decisions — decisions I take very personally. I reiterated to all members I met with this week from Michigan, Ohio and Maryland that many hourly employees at the impacted U.S. plants will have the opportunity to work at other U.S. GM plants and that we are committed to working with them to minimize the impact on the communities. I also informed them that all salaried GM workers impacted by these actions are being offered outplacement services to help them transition to new jobs.”
One representative, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield, blasted GM for its decision to build the Chevrolet Blazer in Mexico and not the United States during the meeting.
“There was a recent decision to make the new Chevy Blazer in Mexico,” Peters was quoted by The Detroit News in saying. “They moved production for that Blazer to a factory that had excess capacity, whereas we had excess capacity in the United States. The Chevy Blazer should be made in the United States, with American workers.”
Barra defended GM’s decision to build the Blazer south of the border, saying that decision was made “many years ago” and at that time, Lordstown was running at full capacity. She also pointed out that GM is building the Cadillac XT4 in Fairfax, Kansas.
Lawmakers and employees are frustrated with GM for pulling the plug on the factories, but the fate of the sites is still yet to be decided. While work at the Michigan, Ohio and Maryland plants is scheduled to end in 2019, GM will enter negotiations with the United Auto Workers union to decide if they will remain closed for good.
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Blah, blah, blah. GM can’t make gas powered cars people want, how are they going to build battery powered cars people want? All of a sudden they are going to know what the market wants?
When was GM “The Government”?
When did GM stop being a company that can do whatever the hell it decides for itself within the laws of the nations it exists in?
What I’m reading here is a bunch of entitled VOTERS telling GM exactly how they will vote in the next GM election. Only I, not seeing any shareholders here, y’know, people who can actually vote on GM stock.
It’s truly phaaking phaany watching folks who “hate big government” talk all the talk of “GM should do what I say. GM should listen to me. I’ve got RIGHTS to tell GM what to do”
Nope. GM is company, and if America is the land-of-the-free, then they don’t have to do what people who don’t own them say. Get it? Or a you really THAT stupid?
Hit the nail on the head! According to Mary discontinuing cars, working on electric vehicles for the future. Only rub is the quantity they sell electrics, they could be produced in Mary’s executive restroom!
We are standing on the brink of an important moment: transitioning to clean energy and attempting to make American car companies great again. What we need is a Gov’t that gets that and is willing to join hands with American car companies.
1. The birth of the $20K Bolt (and similar) needs to be born ASAP.
2. The birth of the $25K All Electric Trax needs to be born ASAP.
3. The birth of the $30K Half Electric ‘Nox ASAP.
4. The birth of the Half Electric Pickup for $30,000.
Those are rough numbers but basically you see those can’t happen ASAP. Because those cars cost twice as much. Right.
4. All must be built with U.S. Gov’t backing. Meaning the taxpayers will pay part of the burden to make this happen.
5. Anyone not buying such cars will get absolutely POUNDED by domestic tariffs. On the sticker and at the pump. That is HOW those prices will be that cheap.
6. Imported electric competitors will not be tariffed. Gas imports will.
7. Perhaps batteries will start in China but transition to America.
I know, I know. Easy to pick details of this apart but I believe the big picture is what matters —
1. All these cars would be domestically manufactured. For good, by the by. (Except batteries at first.)
2. GM could become a leaner meaner company, since it would only produce a handful of these cars but offer them in various branding trim levels
3. If the only way to make this happen is to buy GM, so be it
You will need to pay an extra 20000$ a year in taxes cause most families have 2 cars, replaces one of them every 2- 5 years, and only 45% of Americans work.
Your prices are unrealiatic.
GM loses money on every Bolt they sell today. They should start selling at half the price? Right.
Need I remind you that GM was the first and is still the only car company producing an electric car that’s “affordable”.
They have plenty of issues, but your pricing expectations are ludicris for 2018.
Considering world climate change, concentrating on electrics is the right thing to do. Change is always painful but we must get off of our thirst for oil. Others will follow shortly. This will create short term insecurity for workers but provide greater opportunities in the near future.
Tell this to the workers who will lose their job. Sorry, big oil will never let your scenario play out.
Bull, do we have a responsibility to maintain the planet sure.
But I am old enough to remember when the eco-mentalists tried to convince of the new ice age that was going to happen because we were cooling the planet in the 70’s that failed so they switched to global warming.
But that doesn’t have a broad enough reach so now it’s global climate change and everyone is rushing to build electric cars.
The problem is that if we just changed to an alternate fuel source like hydrogen or propane our problems would be largely solved with minimal overall expense except maybe at the pump.
“I had a very constructive meeting today with members of the Michigan congressional delegation,” Barra said in a prepared statement.
The statement probably was written by a PR person and the PR person probably whold have been just as useful when talking to the delegation.
“I share their concerns about the impact the actions we announced last week will have on our employees, their families and the communities. These were very difficult decisions — decisions I take very personally.”
Cut the crap Machete Mary you could care less for the employees and the communities. If you are so concerned, give up your $22 million salary- that probably would cover all workers for a year at White Marsh and Warren.
“I reiterated to all members I met with this week from Michigan, Ohio and Maryland that many hourly employees at the impacted U.S. plants will have the opportunity to work at other U.S. GM plants”
You mean workers can “bump” people at other GM plants. The net result will be someone loosing their job.
“and that we are committed to working with them to minimize the impact on the communities.”
You mean like how you worked with properties like Buick City and Pontiac Truck?
“all salaried GM workers impacted by these actions are being offered outplacement services to help them transition to new jobs.”
Is that before or after you haul them out like a shoplifter.
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If every car was replaced with a battery powered car today and everyone plugged them in to recharge all night, would the national grid handle it? What do electric power plants use to generate electric? Natural gas or fossil fuels. Is that an improvement for environment?
National Grid has raised rates twice in the past 3 years on electricity costs. What does everybody thing they will do when more and more people start tapping in and using electricity for vehicles? The costs for new gas powered vehicles is already well out of most poor to average consumers reach. Wait until they force electric vehicles on us with a broke government that cannot refund 7500 for each purchase in the future. Electric and hybrid vehicles and the battery technology has been around long enough now to show that prices are not going to plummet like many claim.
There is ample evidence to answer your rather short sighted question. So rather than give you unwanted facts regarding the many benefits of EVs, might I suggest to you and the other oil company parrots on here, go into your garages, with doors closed, start up the old suburban parked in there, walk around to the tail pipe and wrap your passionate lips around it and inhale vigorously. If enough of you do this the rest of us might actually get to enjoy watching our grandkids grow up on a livable planet. Warning – this procedure has not been approved by the FDA ( they have no sense of humor either).
And natural gas running at 60% efficiency, 10% power line losses, 80% charging efficiency and 80% electric motor efficiency means what? 35% effective efficiency of the electric car! We are close to having every gas motor at 40% efficient. Who’s actually cleaner?
what the F??? are you smokin’?
Maybe the State of Michigan can broker a deal between FCA and GM so that some of the displaced workers can get a job at the new assembly plant FCA announced at the old Mack Engine 2 facility in Detroit. Man you have to hand it to FCA, they really timed that announcement to rub it in GM’s face!
And Tesla the same way saying that they would be willing to buy some of GM’s closed plants. I would not be sure if GM would sell to a competitor, but it would sure make GM look bad if they did not.
She wants too build electric cars but killed the Volt , what the hell is that — She should be discontinued — I know I don’t want an electric or computer driven car , I want to driver my own (sedan)
Mary and her band of misfit managers doomed GM.
Take a good look at her, she is gone.
I hope GM survives, but it will take a miracle to recover from Barra;s short sighted leadership.
If I were someone on the board, I would be contacting Ralph Giles ASAP.