{"id":178208,"date":"2019-02-07T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/07\/speaking-of-chicken-shs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T01:43:00","slug":"speaking-of-chicken-shs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/07\/speaking-of-chicken-shs\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Chicken Sh%$s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid record profits, GM is shuttering Canadian plants, and moving production to Mexico, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/gm-threatens-to-sue-union-over-super-bowl-commercial-u-1832320360\">the Canadian auto union Unifor has run a Super Bowl ad condemning the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GM has responded by threatening to sue the labor union:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Canadian trade union Unifor is pissed that GM is shutting down  the Oshawa Assembly Plant, which has a long and rich history spanning  over 100 years. GM says on its <a href=\"https:\/\/plants.gm.com\/Facilities\/public\/ca\/en\/oshawa\/news.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>  that the facility\u2014which now builds the Cadillac XTS, Chevy Impala,  Chevy Silverado, and GMC Sierra\u2014has been open since 1953, but that  before that, it built McLaughlin Buicks and Chevrolets prior to The  Bowtie merging with GM in 1918.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Despite all of that history, <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/general-motors-to-close-canada-plant-amid-push-toward-e-1830651910#_ga=2.48226599.1648340103.1548542011-806099676.1546356313\" rel=\"nofollow\">in 2018, GM announced plans to close the historic manufacturing site.<\/a> Shortly thereafter, <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/union-workers-walk-out-of-gms-oshawa-assembly-plant-fol-1830666027\" rel=\"nofollow\">workers walked out in protest<\/a>,  and the president of Unifor, the trade union representing the plant  workers, voiced his displeasure, saying \u201cThey are not closing our damn  plant without one hell of a fight,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/business\/gm-betraying-canada-by-closing-oshawa-plant-unifor-president-1.4192392\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CTV News<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">But  last night, during the Super Bowl, the battle between Unifor and GM got  heated, with the former unleashing this commercial in Canada:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEAAz3fr2EU\" width=\"384\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The commercial is scathing, mentioning how Canada helped GM with the  bailout last decade, and criticizing the company\u2019s expansion into  Mexico. \u201cGM, you may have forgotten our generosity,\u201d the commercial  concludes, \u201cbut we\u2019ll never forget your greed. If you want to sell here,  build here.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2019\/02\/03\/canadian-union-airs-super-bowl-ad-gm-lawsuit-threats\/2765176002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Detroit News<\/a>, GM wasn\u2019t thrilled, and even threatened legal action:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew that the automobile manufacturer was such a bunch of beautiful cinnamon rolls who are too good for this world?<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveoshawagm.ca\/boycott\">Unifor is also calling for a boycott of Mexican made vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the VIN starts with the number &#8220;3&#8221;, it&#8217;s from Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid record profits, GM is shuttering Canadian plants, and moving production to Mexico, and the Canadian auto union Unifor has run a Super Bowl ad condemning the move. GM has responded by threatening to sue the labor union: The Canadian trade union Unifor is pissed that GM is shutting down the Oshawa Assembly Plant, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,542,465,442,401],"class_list":["post-178208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-automobile","tag-labor","tag-union","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}