Could T8 saved jobs? or has it cost jobs?

[bjr22n]

quote:http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5858967/about-200-more-jobs-to-go-at-holden/

About 200 more jobs to go at Holden

Holden is expected to cut about 200 jobs, mainly from its Melbourne headquarters, the company has confirmed.

Holden has a voluntary redundancy program that has "no firm targets" for the number of jobs to go, company spokesman Scott Whiffin told The Age.

"We're offering voluntary packages within some of our functions, primarily office-based functions at our Port Melbourne headquarters," he said.

"Some of these functions have remained more or less untouched over the years as we've gone down to one shift out at our Elizabeth plant, as export and engineering projects have come and gone, and as our domestic markets have contracted."

But a source told The Age the company hoped to lose about 200 workers, mainly white-collar workers in areas such as engineering and marketing.

Sharelle Herrington, senior industrial officer for the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, said she expected about 70 jobs to go from engineering - about 10 per cent of its workforce.

Twenty other jobs may be lost at Holden's Lang Lang proving ground.

Holden recently closed its four-cylinder engine plant at Fisherman's Bend, shedding about 500 jobs, and has cut the hours of workers at its Adelaide factory.

It also lost a lucrative export program when its troubled parent, General Motors, axed its Pontiac division, which was selling left-hand drive variants of the Holden Commodore as the Pontiac G8 in North America.

I wonder if the cost of Triple 8 jumping ship could of saved these jobs...

 

[PaddockBasher]

I doubt that not buying T8 would save many jobs. A general office type earning say 50-60K per year would cost Holden around 100K once you take overheads/super etc into account per year. So, by my calculations thats about 30 jobs that could have been saved.

I'm guessing Holden think T8 was a cheap way to work their way up the supercar ladder (I won't say win, I still think they, being holdens and T8, are sh*tboxes and the FG is a superior product).

 

[max.gear]

T8 had no affect on this at all.

The MWU has been putting some pressuer on Holden not to cut any more blue collar jobs , if redundancy were needed to help the bottom line it should come from white collar workers.

The workers in Elizabeth have given up alot and still are on one week on and one week off...(Recently Holdens have been asking some workers to work there off weeks aswell, some have taken a second job on those weeks and couldnt not accomidate Holdens wishes...This has caused quite a stir with some workers loosing there second job to accommodate Holden and some have been told if you refuse you wont be getting this offer again.)

The reality is an engineer located in Vic will have a better chance of re-gaining employmnent than a factory worker located in the Northern suburbs of Adelaide....I still feel for those that have lost there positions with Holdens , but know that there is some excellent engineering position opening up in Victoria and other parts of Australia and Asia.

 

[Bigcol]

I don't think it saved any jobs.

What Holden should have done is reduce funding to HRT like it did and then saved the extra 3 million.
They are in deep shit and should be looking at every avenue at saving money not spending it on another factory backed race team

 

[TS-50]

Holden just took a shipload of taxpayer money to keep the Aussie version of GM ( who did the exact same thing in the US) from going under, and it's happened so many times that we all should probably get a free one each by now.

In reality Holden should give customers what they want in a car, that might generate sales, and that might make money, instead of spending so much on marketing an inferior product to people who have a choice.