One day later - GM Plant u-turns on GM-Car only parking rule

Yesterday I had report this - that the local GM plant in DE was going to have 'GM-only' parking with people driving other cars forced to park at a far section of the parking lot. Guess that policy lasted a day...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1432818&mesg_id=1432818

http://www.newsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS/606160330/1006
GM plant U-turns on parking policy
by LULADEY B. TADESSE
The News Journal
06/16/2006

Just a day after announcing a policy that would punish workers and visitors at General Motors' Boxwood Road assembly plant for not driving GM vehicles, executives backed away from the plan.

Plant managers Thursday suspended a new policy that would have given preferential parking to people driving GM vehicles starting July 10. Drivers of other makes would have been required to park in the West Lot, farthest away from the main entrance, under the announcement Wednesday.

But on Thursday, workers received a memo from Dennis Dougherty, the plant manager, notifying them the parking policy was "put on hold." In the memo, Dougherty said there was a request to "review the policy for completeness and correctness."

Alice Petitt, spokeswoman for the plant near Newport, would say only that the policy was being reviewed, and denied that complaints from workers triggered the review.

David J. Myers, president of the United Auto Workers Union Local 435, did not return calls. But some workers at the plant said the parking policy was controversial.

preferred to drive BMW and Lexus.

and I will sum it up with this. I would rather have a picture of a ford as the keys to a chevrolet. every gm vehicles I have owned required much more than routine maintenance. My first car was a '41 chevrolet coupe that I traded my cushman scooter for, I put $1.00 worth of gas and when I traded it for my second car a 47 ford sedan, flat head V8, it still had most of those 3 or so gallons of gas in it. I never had to work on the old ford, just drive the hell out of it. The chevy was a nice car but a piece of crap, I would come home from school thinking that I could maybe fix it tonight and drive it to school tomorrow, after several months of that one day my cousin asked if I would like to trade for my late uncles old ford and I never looked back. put gas in and drive, heck it would go faster in second gear than high gear. Owned several gm vehicles since then and had to walk home pretty much with every one at some point in time but with the ford products they always made it to where I was going, sometimes only limping but got there just the same. My present '98 ford f150 which we bought new has never been worked on except plugs at 100 thousand miles, don't drive it much now as I am disabled and don't work and it can set there for days or weeks and go out and it starts right up ready to go. It still drives and runs just like it did the day I drove it home the first time. for all intent and purposed you couldn't tell it from a new one except the paint shows a little wear as it was my work truck. When we bought it we figured it would take us into retirement and looks like it is well on its way of doing just that.
peace.
would rather walked down the side of the road carrying a steering wheel of a ford as ride in a chevy

workers, then maybe GM can ask this. Also, can you imagine the line workers passing the executive parking row in front of the plant every day? Bet the execs don't all drive GM. Can we say "key that car"?

...they're probably given a free one to drive.

is corporate-speak, meaning Uh Oh, we got caught with our ass showing.