GM to lay off 3,550 workers

[Sky]

Let this serve as a lesson to those autoworkers that place any faith in the capitalist system. The autoworkers need to take control of the means of production and not be satisfied with bribes in the form of wage increases and benefits. Only when the workers take control of the means of production will the conditions for layoffs cease to exist. GM needs to boycotted in order to punish those complacent American workers.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_Mvl4r4i9ue6CqUskMUZticqNuwD90B9SO09



The dwindling U.S. auto market and an accelerating shift from trucks to cars has brought grim layoff news to four General Motors Corp. factories.

The company announced Monday that it plans to cut one shift each at pickup truck and large sport utility vehicle plants in Flint and Pontiac, Mich.; Janesville, Wis.; and Oshawa, Ontario, resulting in about 3,550 layoffs.

The world's largest automaker by sales said the cuts, to take effect this summer, were brought on by weak demand due to high gasoline prices and an economic downturn.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

What? You're blaming the workers for not possessing class consciousness? :laugh:

[pusher robot]

Let this serve as a lesson to those autoworkers that place any faith in the capitalist system. The autoworkers need to take control of the means of production and not be satisfied with bribes in the form of wage increases and benefits. Only when the workers take control of the means of production will the conditions for layoffs cease to exist. GM needs to boycotted in order to punish those complacent American workers.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_Mvl4r4i9ue6CqUskMUZticqNuwD90B9SO09

And what would that accomplish? GM needs to reduce the number of workers because people don't want their cars. What do you propose, pay the workers to be idle? Or produce cars that people don't want? It's not like GM even has profits to share.

[ComradeBeerhead]

It's too bad we don't have Universal healthcare, as GM having to cover their workers (not to mention the pensions and adjusted wages they have to deal with) keeps them from adopting policies which will both allow them to be profitable and keep people employed.

[Psy]

And what would that accomplish? GM needs to reduce the number of workers because people don't want their cars. What do you propose, pay the workers to be idle? Or produce cars that people don't want? It's not like GM even has profits to share.
It is not the workers fault that capitalism pulls back production when ever scarcity of the commodity is threatened. It is not the workers fault that capitalism can't claw back production without clawing back workers. It is not the workers fault that advances in production are used to further exploit the labor of worker rather then to limits societies from the need for human labor.

[pusher robot]

It is not the workers fault that capitalism pulls back production when ever scarcity of the commodity is threatened. It is not the workers fault that capitalism can't claw back production without clawing back workers. It is not the workers fault that advances in production are used to further exploit the labor of worker rather then to limits societies from the need for human labor.

None of my questions were "whose fault is it?" This is a non-sequitur.