http://brisbanetimes.drive.com.au/motor-news/ford-sheds-hundreds-of-jobs-20120717-2279a.html I wonder how much the government will throw at ford this time to keep a few jobs?
About the same amount they handed over to Holden to keep things ticking along in the Northern 'burbs of Adelaide.
Ford are all union workers, so Labor will give them as much taxpayer money as Ford want to prevent loss of jobs and hence loss of union members. The protection racket must be defended at all costs.
What sort of pathetic question is that to ask someone who needs to justify their decision to spend other people's money. If it was such a good investment then he obviously should have invested more! Maybe they would have fired twice as many!! :lol:
Ford dah de dah de dah the list goes on. Subsidising large multinational companies- Good grief!!!!. Where the Fu** is my small business bail out package????? Julia Gillard-'Shieting on the Little guy'. Way to go.. REDBACK
If you are a small business owner you are not in a union. The Labor government regards you as a problem to be solved, not as a citizen.
i hear you, i run a small business and we could sure use a bail out package. yet instead we get giving more Bull Sh$T paperwork to fill out.
Thats quite a bizarre truth there SpannerM. The irony is that all the Western countries are sucker punched for the same deal on a silver platter which will ultimately be served for free to the East. REDBACK
We should help our auto industry by putting large tariffs on imported cars , not just handing them over 100 million every 5 years.How ridiculous. Carbon tax doesn't help them either.
Or subsidise our cars it might sell a few more if they werent so expensive I dont see the point throwing money at a single entity it would be better to throw the money at our citizens
Tariffs no way I dont want to pay for a non competitive industry that makes crap cars. Did not work before will. It Work now. On that basis if you fail at your business the govt should bail you out to do it all again. WTF Oops was not going to get involved.
It's working for China right now.... Heard about a few recent growth industries.One being USA has millions of chicken feet that noone in the US wants to eat but they are a delicasy in China.Result China gets flooded with US chicken feet.China then slaps 30% tariff on US chicken feet. Also recent case of WA lobster attracting tariffs , i believe was also in China but may have been elsewhere in Asia.
We need a thread where we can post rumours without fear of legal repercussions. Here's one for you. Talking to a farmer the other day - he queries that maybe Golden Circle is going broke as they are trying to reduce their quotas for canned fruit. You heard it here first folks, now I can't back up anything I say with hard stats, but rumours never needed stats did they?
The war has been going on some time. 2 Supermarkets vs competition. http://www.smh.com.au/business/heinz-hits-out-at-home-brands-20111121-1nr1l.html
Coles and Woolworths own branded stuff would be the last thing that I would trust for quality or safety.
Is there something strange about this statement? The CEO of one of the world's biggest food manufacturers complaining about a food retail monopoly? He is probably complaining because "Private brand" supermarket products used to contain foods from local producers, and perhaps Heinz was one of those suppliers. Now they seem to have the "made from imported ingredients" fine print on the package. For me I have to say that the fruit and veg from the local shop up the street is better than much of what I can find at the Duopoly and his prices aren't uncompetitive. I was also concerned to learn that the Basa fish that seems to have replaced "flake" as the default cheap fish in frozen foods and many F&C shops is caught in the Mekong delta.
Turtle the subsidies Let the manufacturers make a decent product & not update it every 5-12 months The built quality of cars these days is absolute crap ,no matter where they come from :/ At least the Japanese have a standard ,the German built quality has been dropping lately ,most of the plastic parts are made in China & assembled in Germany . Our built quality in OZ is up there with the Japanese , But still crap in my opinion for the $ we pay for new vehicles . I used to work at Kenworth in the paint dep ,with a couple of other former roadies who were painter . Peter the drummer had an old 70's Kenworth at home ,he said he could build a better unit for half the price of a new one
Being one of the biggest doesn't necessarily mean they can bring any pressure to bear on Coles and Woolies. Depends on how many alternatives they have for supply. Heinz only has two alternatives to sell to both of which are playing the same game with them.
They will probably move their manufacturing to NZ. I would not like to be a grower or supplier trying to deal with the Duopoly in Australia, if they are screwing Heinz imagine what they are doing to smaller suppliers. Back to Ford, I am saddened that Like the USA our car manufacturers ignored the future and kept making the cars that they were used to making instead of the cars that would be necessary for the 21st century. Japan drove the future of car design for the masses, we learned to appreciate what they came up with and bought them instead of the V8 and big 6's that Ford and Holden wanted to keep producing. Korea saw the future, Australia got left behind. Ford thought that a bit of badge engineering would carry them through. It did for a while.
