06-09-2009, 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by David M
Last try - We no longer have a GM dealer on BI (hence no service. While one might blame the dealer as solely responsible for going out of business, when you connect ALL the dots, it goes back to the actual products and the union contracts associated with those products.
I have no problem with connecting the dots to see the picture, but there is a problem when only certain dots are chosen to be connected OR dots are made by filling in the circles of unrelated letters, OR dots on punctuation marks are used as stand alone dots just so they produce the picture one wants to see.
The UAW CBA with GM is not part of any dealer business. As a matter of fact, 13 other GM dealers on Hawaii are successful, selling the same cars and trucks as this dealer. And those cars and trucks come with the same shipping, reliability, quality, and union contract baggage. So why does 13 other dealers in the Sate not shutting their doors like this dealer if the products are the same with the same union contracts associated with them?
Lets take it a bit further, How is Ford, a company with a similar product line and equal union labor contracts at their plants? Oh, they were hurting and such and needed federal money UNTIL they realize that there are accountability issues. Suddenly they are not as bad as they through and said. Yet they have a union labor contract at their factories.
But I guess the proof lies with union versus non-union. So, how do Mazda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, or Suzuki, stack up against GM and their union made vehicles. Are those selling any better or are they also feeling the economic pinch. Toyota is financially hurting. Is the Corolla or Tacoma down in sales or is it only their large gas guzzling SUVs? Honda is holding their own but they have few large pickups and SUV’s in their lineup.
If blame is to be placed on a dealer closing because of a labor contract the manufacture has, might as well blame the country that produced the rubber for the tires, or Japan for the radios, or the farmers who grew the cotton for the seats, or the oil company that made the grease, or Hawaii Styate for the taxes, or the County for having too small a road by the dealer, or Puna for not buying enough new vehicles, or Punaweb for not promoting the dealership, or.......