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Tone deaf to make hay over temporary plant layoffs when thousands of people are experiencing permanent seperation with a 2 month payout.
It is not even close.
Contactors and suppliers get even less recognition or respect. Most dealt with furlogh days and no benefits.
Do you think the union folks care at all about them? SMH
It would seem that contract, union, and salaried have a bit in common in this area, with contract bearing the brunt of the fallout. No one likes layoffs, but it is sadly a way of life for contract. Salaried and union have a layer or layers of protection.
At the end of the day, everyone is still a number, and interchangeable piece with these companies. Sometimes that results in a separation from the organization.
So how does this occur?
Company has a grand but improbable idea. Ramps up the hiring race towards bloated levels. Four to five years later, plans don't pan out, and mass downsizing begins. First contractors, then pausing or closing plants, reductions in union shifts, then if it's cuts too deep, it goes to salary and buyouts.
2008 mass layoff. Up to late 2014/early 15 mass ramp up. 2018/19 mass layoff. 20XX ramp up. 2024 layoffs again. I think I might be missing one event in the 2010 to prior 2015 timeline, but the pattern is always the same at GM. Always.
If you work at GM in any position, you always, always, always, need to have a fall back plan.
“Layoffs are never good,” Kane said. “They get unemployment, some sub and stuff like that, but that’s not like getting a full paycheck.”