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OT - Car Plant Forces GM, Ford Owners to Walk
Sherman L. Cahal 9 May 2005 19:48:29
	http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050509/ap_on_fe_st/chrysler_only SLC: I surmise that DaimlerChrysler is in really bad finicial shape from this sentence? ""Drive what you build if you want your company to survive." -- KOKOMO, Ind. - Workers at DaimlerChrysler's Indiana Transmission Plant I and Plant II better allow more time to walk in from the parking lot if they drive Fords or General Motors vehicles. A new policy that takes effect Monday designates about 80 percent of employee parking spaces for Chrysler vehicles only and forces workers to park much further away if they drive a car or truck made by a competing manufacturer. In case employees forget, there's new blue lines painted on the parking lot and signs that declare "DaimlerChrysler Parking Only" and "DaimlerChrysler Vehicle Parking." Workers have been told that non-Chrysler vehicles parked in the reserved areas will be towed to Indianapolis at a cost of $200, the Kokomo Tribune reported Sunday. Chrysler spokesman Edward Saenz said most Chrysler plants across the country have similar parking policies, but he did not know exactly how many. Both transmission plants have ample parking, and the new policy does not apply to vehicles with handicap plates, he said. "It is a management initiative, but we believe it has wide support from the employees," Saenz said. "It's a local decision." The plants posted signs and painted the new lines about two weeks ago, he said. Employees began receiving non-compliance warnings last week leading up to this week's enforcement. Nine-year employee Bill Parks considers the new policy "a form of harassment." He drives a Pontiac, made by GM. "I think we have other issues going on in the company besides where to park your vehicle," Parks said. He isn't disabled but has a back condition that occasionally flares up. He bought his Pontiac as a second vehicle because he didn't want to go into debt with two new Chrysler vehicles. "I tried to find a good Dodge vehicle when I was buying this one, but I couldn't find one at the time," he said. Chris Koors said he has generally parked in an isolated area to avoid damage to his Chrysler truck. Last Thursday, he found it surrounded by non-Chrysler vehicles. "They need to buy what we build," Koors said, gesturing toward the non-Chrysler vehicles. In the 1970s and early '80s, when Chrysler was experiencing layoffs, Koors said his father, also a Chrysler employee, would describe foreign-made vehicles that were flipped upside down if parked in the company's parking lot. "It's not about American made or union made, it's about our company," he said. "Drive what you build if you want your company to survive."
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Ill 9 May 2005 21:30:48 [ permanent link ]
	Do automakers give large discounts to plant workers? I know they give discounts to dealers...
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Stephane Dumas 9 May 2005 22:07:48 [ permanent link ]
	"Sherman L. Cahal" <sherman@cahaltech.com> a йcrit dans le message de news: 1115653709.916134.290130@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050509/ap_on_fe_st/chrysler_only> SLC: I surmise that DaimlerChrysler is in really bad finicial shape> from this sentence? ""Drive what you build if you want your company to> survive."> On the other hand, the employees might been in a better physical/wheathly condition, walking seems to be a good exercise Reminds me of what I read once at Autoweek forums one day, does how a boss working at Honda's plant in Marysville might react if he saw one of his employees who arrive in a Mazda 6 or a Hyundai for example... Stйphane Dumas
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MC Pee Pants 10 May 2005 00:26:59 [ permanent link ]
	TV's Sherman L. Cahal wrote:> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050509/ap_on_fe_st/chrysler_only> SLC: I surmise that DaimlerChrysler is in really bad finicial shape> from this sentence? ""Drive what you build if you want your company to> survive."> --> KOKOMO, Ind. - Workers at DaimlerChrysler's Indiana Transmission Plant> I and Plant II better allow more time to walk in from the parking lot> if they drive Fords or General Motors vehicles.> A new policy that takes effect Monday designates about 80 percent of> employee parking spaces for Chrysler vehicles only and forces workers> to park much further away if they drive a car or truck made by a> competing manufacturer.> In case employees forget, there's new blue lines painted on the parking> lot and signs that declare "DaimlerChrysler Parking Only" and> "DaimlerChrysler Vehicle Parking." What is happening to our country? Democrats being excommunicated from their church, now this. The America I grew up in is a fading memory. -- Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. - Maynard James Keenan
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SP Cook 10 May 2005 04:57:19 [ permanent link ]
	Sherman L. Cahal wrote:> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050509/ap_on_fe_st/chrysler_only> KOKOMO, Ind. - Workers at DaimlerChrysler's Indiana Transmission Plant> I and Plant II better allow more time to walk in from the parking lot> if they drive Fords or General Motors vehicles.> This was common back in the 70s and 80s. The UAW workers knew that what they were making was crud, hated the companies they worked for, and making the huge wages they made back then, bought foreign, generally M-B (which now would be D-C, ironically) or other German. Most car companies started policies of forcing people to park out of public view if they did not have a product made by the companies. The idea bubbles up from time to time. SP Cook
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SP Cook 10 May 2005 05:07:39 [ permanent link ]
	ill wrote:> Do automakers give large discounts to plant workers? I know they give discounts to dealers... This is called "the plans". Most union workers and wage based managers are on "Plan 1" or "Plan 1A". Basicly, they can buy a new car at cost (real cost, not that phoney baloney "$49 over invoice" scam that some dealers run). This would amount to $5K to $6K off a $30K car. They can buy a car every 18 months. However, the car companies don't care what the workers do with the cars. Many just sell them back to a dealer without ever getting title for a small profit (you can see this at dealers near car plants, where the sold to space will have "corporate" or "plan" rather than the name of a dealer on the sticker.) Since they have not been titled, they can be sold as new. Others will just pass the car onto friends or relatives. Then they buy what they want. Many workers have such bad attitudes that they purposefully will not buy products their company makes. SP Cook
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