Anyone from Lordstown here?
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To keep Lordstown alive you would need to put in a new paint shop, because the one we have right now not big enough to build larger vehicles. Probably would need a billion dollars or more to make this happen. Retrofitting this plant to build bigger cars would be too expensive. RIP.
Bye bye jobs, stock is up, life us good!!
LORDSTOWN CLOSING | Sadness felt as news hits town
www.vindy.com/news/2018/nov/26/gm-close-canadian-plant-s-just-beginning/
What are you talking about? UAW is one of the oldest, strongest, and largest unions in the country. The workers will get the severance packages that their union fights for (and likely has already negotiated at this point). I guarantee UAW isn’t going down without a fight. Additionally, execs aren’t all terrible people just because they work in management. I would be willing to wager that many of them worked their way up into middle management after many years on the floor. And who are you to say that they drove the company into the ground? You don’t think the onerous steel tariffs, decreasing demand for passenger vehicles, lack of reliability/quality, and the shift towards autonomous and electric vehicles has anything to do with it? There are so many external variables at play here it seems disingenuous to say it’s entirely management’s fault. The world is changing and not everyone in every industry will be able to keep up, regardless of what management does. This s---s for everyone involved.
Those executives are getting severance checks bigger than the 14.7K Workers have ever gotten paid in their time there.
The only function of HR at this point is getting those executives new jobs at new companies, which they will also mismanage and drive into the ground. If you're one of those 14K Workers, HR has probably blocked your emails by now.
Those executives get to fly home to any one of their McMansions and take a few months off to cool off, and convince themselves they were actually awesome the whole time. Those fourteen-thousand Workers get to desperately find a new job before their slim-to-nonexistent savings run out and they get evicted and become homeless.
The executives, who got to collect 99% of the money the entire time, in exchange for "managing" the company, didn't manage the company, and there's no (legal) way for the Workers to recollect what is rightfully theirs.