Reply #62: The reason there were layoffs [View All]

[poisonivy]

is the fact that the big 3's sales were and are down, if you dont sell your product you dont need as many people to produce it. The question is why was sales down? Was it quality issues? Was it design issues? What was causing the sales to go so far down.

How can you say flood of imports? These cars and motorcycles are made right here in the US. The Accord, Civic, most Acura models,
Ridgeline, CR-V, Element, Pilot and Odyssey are all made in the states. Thats not an import thats locally made. Then you take the bikes like the GoldWIng and VT both made in Marysville.

Oh and Honda invests in the US, why do you think they have many plants now here in the states? They started with marysville and they now have several in the state of ohio alone, plus indiana, alabama, south carolina, not including the thousands of local suppliers they use.

I dont know what the starting wage is but I know after 3 years you top out at around 25 an hour. I know my wife made in the upper 5 figures last year when you include the overtime and profit sharing and for this area thats pretty damn good wages.