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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by slt2021 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:49PM (#42939338)
not true, it is better for the brand long-term to build good cars. but unionized workforce makes it economically unfeasible.

GM makes crappy because, if they tried to make high quality cars, they would be priced like Cadillacs

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by mullingitover on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:09PM (#42939661)
We have an apples to apples comparison with Mexican-made vehicles, though, since both GM and Toyota build there.

What's the excuse for the shoddy non-union Mexican GM vehicles?

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by slt2021 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:17PM (#42939778)
Mexico is an assembly operation to arbitrage cheap low skill labor and preferential NAFTA-like agreements.

Vehicle designs, powertrains, critical components are all made by the HQ or its suppliers.

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by mullingitover on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:30PM (#42939950)
Citation needed, because just a cursory check is showing me plenty of powertrain manufacturing happening in Mexico. Meanwhile if by critical components you mean chips, I don't think there's a big semiconductor manufacturing union that's kneecapping GM. Design is also an apples to apples comparison, it's not a union job.
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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by whycome on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:41PM (#42943424)
Wait is the joke that Cadillacs are GM cars?

It's interesting that other car companies have backed off from the multiple brands/badges. We don't have plymouth, Oldsmobile, mercury, Pontiac.

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