Translation: stahhp being mean you're hurting my innocent bank account!
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Translation: Get back to work, peasants! Won't you think of how your actions are affecting your lords?
Oh yeah well that's fine with me
In a rare speech during contract talks in the company’s hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, Ford said high labor costs could limit spending to develop new vehicles and invest in factories. “It’s the absolute lifeblood of our company. And if we lose it, we will lose to the competition. America loses. Many jobs will be lost,” said the great grandson of company founder Henry Ford.
Okay, go ahead and spend on R&D and factories, if that is the "absolute lifeblood of [your] company." Good luck producing those new cars in new factories with no workers.
"America loses."
Ask me if I give a shit where the fucking car company's corporate headquarters is.
The closest manufacturer to me is Toyota. The closest Ford plant is in Mexico. Where is America winning there?
Ah, because Bill Ford's wallet is in America. I get it now.
Good, keep it at stake.
Have you… Considered compensating your workers fairly?
His speech read more like a threat than anything else.
Lol, fuck you pay them. If their presence is so vital then your shareholders can take a smaller cut and your pay can drop too.
WOAH! HOLD ON! Are you suggesting the share holders should be happy with less?? Who's gonna buy the yachts?
Shareholders don't buy yachts.
Buying a yacht would keep a boat manufacturer in business and paying wages to boat workers.
Shareholders buy shares, then take off the profits from those shares so that workers will never see them. The only way to avoid that is for the workers to own the shares, so it doesn't matter whether the company favors the workers or favors the shareholders, because they are one and the same.
Man, you'd have to be a real shitty Executive to have your 100+ year old company sunk because of a single strike....
cut your pay down to their level, then you can judge them for wanting higher pay
If only there was a fairly quick way to get those workers back to work. That would be nice, Bill, right? Like... just imagine if there was some sort of agreement you could reach with them and they returned back to work immediately. Funny fantasy, right Bill? Right?
Oh no... anyways.
Fuck executives. Everything they touch goes to shit.
The only unskilled labor is executives.
A single AI could theoretically replace every single C Suite executive in the world.
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That's a stunning admission, mighty close to admitting straight to the workers' faces that they are winning. What stronger sign could there be that holding the line is exactly the right thing to do?
When was the last time Ford made anything worth getting? I can't think of anything since 2000.
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Not at stake enough to meet their demands I suppose
Which stage of grief is bargaining?
Whichever it is, he's not there yet. They aren't bargaining.