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What GM workers weren't wiling to do that UPS workers might.
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 851376" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>GM's UAW workers did have some ridiculous benefits. I'm sure there are some laid off drivers on here that wish UPS had a jobs bank program where they could go to work and sit in a room and do nothing while still getting 95% of their pay. Hell, I'd imagine some employees would be begging to get laid off if it were that good. On the flip side I put a good amount of blame on GM management as well for its downfall. As sober pointed out they built their business model on trucks and SUVs and that doesn't work when gas prices spike and everyone wants a small car. GM's small cars were and still are crap so if you want a decently reliable small car you went with a foreign competitor who has built their business on their small cars. I took a business class once on supply chain management, and the professor was talking about how GM's supply chain was still stuck in the 1970s in terms of its efficiency. They would order parts in huge bulk quantities and warehouse them until needed when most competitors were going with a just in time supply chain where they parts reached the assembly line right as they are needed eliminating costs for warehousing parts. I'd imagine a lot about GM was simply inefficient and obsolete compared to how most manufacturers run their operations today. GM's downfall was probably 75% bad management and 25% UAW greed. </p><p></p><p>As far as how this relates to UPS I believe since both companies only relation is a union workforce I can't see it relating much. UPS is still reporting good quarterly profits along with strong revenue growth. The only thing that could be seen as a concern is the fact that most of UPS's growth over the past several years has been its international shipping business, and that domestically we are basically flat on volume growth. Could we ask for more than UPS can provide and vote ourselves right out of a job? Certainly, but I see no indication that we are at that point....yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 851376, member: 249"] GM's UAW workers did have some ridiculous benefits. I'm sure there are some laid off drivers on here that wish UPS had a jobs bank program where they could go to work and sit in a room and do nothing while still getting 95% of their pay. Hell, I'd imagine some employees would be begging to get laid off if it were that good. On the flip side I put a good amount of blame on GM management as well for its downfall. As sober pointed out they built their business model on trucks and SUVs and that doesn't work when gas prices spike and everyone wants a small car. GM's small cars were and still are crap so if you want a decently reliable small car you went with a foreign competitor who has built their business on their small cars. I took a business class once on supply chain management, and the professor was talking about how GM's supply chain was still stuck in the 1970s in terms of its efficiency. They would order parts in huge bulk quantities and warehouse them until needed when most competitors were going with a just in time supply chain where they parts reached the assembly line right as they are needed eliminating costs for warehousing parts. I'd imagine a lot about GM was simply inefficient and obsolete compared to how most manufacturers run their operations today. GM's downfall was probably 75% bad management and 25% UAW greed. As far as how this relates to UPS I believe since both companies only relation is a union workforce I can't see it relating much. UPS is still reporting good quarterly profits along with strong revenue growth. The only thing that could be seen as a concern is the fact that most of UPS's growth over the past several years has been its international shipping business, and that domestically we are basically flat on volume growth. Could we ask for more than UPS can provide and vote ourselves right out of a job? Certainly, but I see no indication that we are at that point....yet. [/QUOTE]
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