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Originally Posted by Azure
What I don't get is why people think all those people who work for GM will be unemployed all a sudden without any prospect of getting a job.
If GM is selling 126,000 cars per month, and they go bankrupt, someone HAS to fill that whole. Be that Ford, Toyota....any other car company, someone has to make 126,000 more cars.
In other words, a different company will either buy out GM, restructure everything, and start building cars....giving a lot of people work, or those people will be hired by Ford, Toyota, etc, etc.....to work for them to fill the demand for cars.
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Companies don't want to explain that when they're asking for government cash. They'd prefer to push doomsday scenarios to frighten politicians into action.
An auto plant costs tons of money to build and outfit. It isn't going to just sit there collecting dust. At some price point someone is going to buy it. And if they buy it, they'll need workers. The places that should be worried are the ones with the worst auto plants.
But the other problem is that the skills needed to become an auto worker, as far as I can tell, aren't exactly the hardest to acquire. So long time auto workers could lose their position to some fresh on the floor. Or maybe no one steps into those former GM auto plants. Sure other manufacturers would step into fill the void in the marketplace left by GM but there's no guarantee that those out of work autoworkers would move, or be able to move, to where production has increased.