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BrklynLiberal

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:27 PM
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GM to raise India workforce by 30%

After announcing the layoffs of American workers, GM is increasing its workforce in India....

NEW DELHI: America's loss is turning out to be India's gain. Within days of announcing 30,000 job-cuts in the US, automobile giant General Motors Corp will this week unveil plans to increase its workforce in India by nearly 30%.
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"GM is going on a hiring spree in India, and it's add jobs both on the factory shop-floor as well in the executive cadre. GM will this week start the process to hire 450 additional people for its India venture," a senior head-hunter told The Times of India.

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In addition, the firm plans to add another 4,000 jobs in India when it sets up its second greenfield car plant.

The car maker has already shortlisted Andhra Pradesh, tamil Nadu and Maharashtra as the probable sites for its second plant, which will produce the Chevrolet Spark (a rebadged Daewoo Matiz), an all-new SUV and a sedan.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1309881.cms

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acmavm

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:31 PM
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1. And they'll still continue to get the tax breaks from the American gov?

My opinion, they are fast becoming of no benefit to this country. They are, in fact, almost a foreign business who headquarters here.

Time for a revolution, folks.

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Canuckistanian

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:34 PM
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2. That's great!

Now, the poor people of India will have jobs with union representation, paid health care plans and good wages that will let them... what? Not exactly, you say?

Oops, my mistake.

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BrklynLiberal

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:38 PM
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6. Exactly. It is a lose/lose situation.

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 12:42 PM by BrklynLiberal

GM is only going over there because they can produce a car by using labor to which they can pay less and give fewer benefits. They are still reaping the tax benefits given by the US government, and returning NOTHING to the US people.

The only beneficiary here is the corporate entity who is reaping in increasingly disgusting profits at the expense of the labor markets in both the USA and India, and the taxpayers subsidies in the USA.

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skipos

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:36 PM
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3. Who are the politicians that seem to genuinely

want to do something about this? What do they propose?

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IDemo

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:36 PM
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4. A Daewoo from Nadu = a Chevy? Nooooo!

As American as Baseball, Satpuri, and Chevrolet!

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napi21

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:37 PM
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5. Will you buy a car made in India?

I think GM is being short sighted again...as usual!

I would think their primary goal is to sell cars! Everything else is in support of that effort.

They will be able to make their cars and components cheaper in India for sure, but they will lose on-sight control (a complaint heard from several companies who've outsourced) and the bad publicity can't possibly help to sell their cars in the US!

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Clark2008

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:41 PM
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8. Henry Ford was aware of this.

Yes, I realize Henry Ford praised Nazi's, but he did take care of his workers. He paid enough of a living wage to ensure that his employees could afford to purchase his product.

He was aware that if people didn't earn enough, they couldn't put money in his pocket by buying his cars.

GM doesn't seem to consider that A. They won't be paying Indians enough to buy their cars and B. With the thousands of American's they've put out of jobs, who here will be able to buy their Rams and Jimmy's?

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TahitiNut

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:36 PM
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16. That's an exaggeration that's become an urban myth.

Ford, under the advice of John R. Lee, increased factory workers' wages in 1914 (around the same time as the intorduction of the assembly line), from $2.70 for a 9-hour day to $5.00 for an 8-hour day (half of which was profit-sharing!). That was an anti-competitive move, not generosity ... and the very last time that Ford or Ford Motor Company did anything to win labor's favor. Ford Motor Company was the very last to be unionized, and engaged in some of the most brutal and inhumane anti-labor practises in U.S. history. (Ford Motor Company used slave labor in Nazi Germany.) See also "the battle of the overpass."

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ellenfl

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:12 PM
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11. they will sell in india and china and

probably get a much higher profit margin in the short term. they don't have to sell here.

ellen fl

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napi21

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:21 PM
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13. Are you telling me that they're giving up US market share?

I realize they've lost a lot of that share to Honda, toyota, etc, but they still have about 28%, last I heard. I gotta tell ya, if I was in the market for a new car, their behavior would convince me to not even consider a GM product!

This is a very short sighted plan!

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tx_dem41

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:32 PM
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14. Its short sighted to sell to BOOMING markets like China and India?!? n/t

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napi21

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:40 PM
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17. No, I didn't say that. You go after any market you can.

That doesn't sound like that's GM's plan. It may be part of it, and that part is good. I know they already sell cars I never heard of. A friend in NZ was telling me about her car, and when she told me the mane, I asked where's THAT one from? It turns out it's made by GM, although I don't know where. I don't recall what it was called, but I sure never heard of it before.

The image GM is presenting here in the US is that it is eliminating jobs here, and hiring in India. If that's purely because their market is there and no longer here, they should say that! It just creates a bad image for them.

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ellenfl

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:35 PM
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15. no, i'm telling you that india and china have a significant

emerging market for automobiles.

ellen fl

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Greyhound

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:40 PM
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18. One of the fastest ways to go broke is to gain a larger and larger

share of a shrinking market. Apparently the ivy league frat boys that run GM missed that class.

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Deja Q

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:38 PM
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7. One man's traitor is another man's patriot.

I demand US taxpayer money stop going to this seditious company.

Let the Indians pay for them.

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BrklynLiberal

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:44 PM
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9. Thom Hartmann was proposing that tariffs should be applied to all products

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 12:44 PM by BrklynLiberal

manufactured outside the US...even if made by companies headquartered here. That would be one way to keep the jobs here.

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gizmo1979

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Sun Dec-04-05 12:49 PM
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10. They are going to have to do

something the trade deficit is unmanagable and lead to our debt load being too high causing our economy to implode.

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tx_dem41

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Sun Dec-04-05 01:15 PM
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12. It only makes sense since this is for vehicles to be sold in India. n/t

Edited on Sun Dec-04-05 01:15 PM by tx_dem41

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adarling

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Sun Dec-04-05 02:12 PM
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19. thats why i will never ever buy GM or another american car

if they aren't going to be firing americans to hire someone outside the country, then why not buy Toyota or Honda. Might as well just get it out of the way now and quit helping them destroy more and more lives or at least reward them by buying one of their shitty cars.

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Javaman

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Sun Dec-04-05 03:57 PM
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20. Wait for it, GM is going to move, lock stock and barrel overseas...

This is the death of America by a thousand cuts. Before you know it, we are bleeding to death. But while it's happening, the gov't thinks a few band-aides with fix everything.

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