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Digging Deeper on the GM Loan Repayment
Last week’s announcement by GM that is has fully repaid the loans it received from the U.S., Canadian, and Ontario governments (years ahead of schedule, and with interest) was greeted in most circles as another positive sign of the auto industry’s modest recovery. Since the dark days of last June (when Chrysler was shut down [...]
Posted by Jim Stanford under auto industry, media.
May 4th, 2010
Comments: 9
Don’t Blame Auto Bailout for $50 b Deficit
In all the kerfuffle around Finance Minister Flaherty’s $50 billion deficit projection, the cost of the joint federal-Ontario support for the restructuring of GM and Chrysler has been getting a lot of attention.
But while that restructuring support is an important and expensive undertaking, there’s no way it should be fingered as the major cause (or [...]
Posted by Jim Stanford under auto industry, budgets.
May 28th, 2009
Comments: 5
Wage cuts, deflation and the feds
CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell coordinated the following letter, published at rabble.ca, from a number of progressive economists (mostly academic and private sector, not from the trade union sector) about the growing risk of deflation in general and the federal government’s attack on auto workers in particular.
Government pressure to cut wages will increase the risk [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under auto industry, recession, stimulus.
April 27th, 2009
Comments: none
What is YOUR All-in Hourly Labour Cost???
One enormous myth that has been propagated (sometimes innocently, sometimes not) in recent debates over the future of the auto industry is the false notion that auto workers “make” $75 per hour.
Autoworkers don’t remotely make that much money — yet the lie has been repeated often enough, I am amazed at how many people actually [...]
Posted by Jim Stanford under auto industry, labour market.
April 25th, 2009
Comments: 9
