I love the flagrant pro-business bias on this board. It keeps things interesting.
Lockout!!!
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I love the flagrant pro-business bias on this board. It keeps things interesting.
trigg3r
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I am a consumer and want a better car. That's why I will not buy GM for the time being. They have to cut corners in order to pay the Union salaries and they end producing an expensive POS. I would argue that I am being pro-consumer more than pro-business in this regard.
People want to blame the workers for the problems with GM and other American automakers. How about them not being able to compete with foreign automakers in making better cars? Plus they've pushed the SUVs and Hummers and other ridiculous vehicles that are higher priced and worse polluters. It's not all the workers' salaries that have contributed to their failure.
trigg3r
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One of the big reasons they can't compete and build a better car is that they have to pay so much to the UAW. As for SUVs etc... At one point they were very popular and big sellers. I never bought one myself. I will never buy another car GM makes after getting bent over on the one I most recently had. Talk about cheap parts and a plethora of problems. I would like to see the average UAW's hourly pay. Anyway, any loyalty I or my family may have shown them in the past is gone. They repaid that loyalty with a lousy product.
GVC
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And we all know how willing American consumers of pro basketball are to switch to watching European basketball...
It's more than a little disingenuous to rail against unions in an industry that's controlled by a single producer. If not for the cartel power the NBA has, do you think there'd be teams in Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans and Sacramento? Why should the players be forced to subsidize terrible decisions by the NBA and NBA owners?
It's more than a little disingenuous to rail against unions in an industry that's controlled by a single producer. If not for the cartel power the NBA has, do you think there'd be teams in Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans and Sacramento? Why should the players be forced to subsidize terrible decisions by the NBA and NBA owners?
GVC
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If those teams would be more profitable elsewhere...
The owners are demanding that enough concessions be made by the players alone to ensure that ALL teams in ALL markets, no matter how poorly they're run, can make a profit, even during the worst economic downturn since the depression. They're completely unwilling to discuss revenue sharing among owners to make this possible. Despite all the recent talk about owners assuming all the risk in running an NBA team, the truth is there is absolutely no risk.
The NBA obviously needs to move a team back to Seattle. I say take the least profitable team in the league, and move them to Seattle.
It's hitting me hard. I'm tired of regular season football, and extremely tired of hearing people talk about BCS drama.
margodydek
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If the NBPA is really having Fisher back at the settlement/negotiating table, than that either means they're confident a deal will get done or they're giving up on their lawsuit as this would kind of confirm Stern's accusation that disclaiming was nothing more than a sham/negotiating tactic. I'd like to think the NBPA isn't that stupid, so I'm fairly optimistic that by Monday they should have a deal.
Of course it is a sham/negotiating tactic. No one expected otherwise, but it is one that must be respected. If someone has a gun in their hand, even if you know that person probably doesn't have the balls to pull the trigger, you still have to take the threat seriously.