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General Motors announces it will close Holden Adelaide operations in 2017

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Camo:
Story Summary
Holden to shut Adelaide operations by 2017
As early as yesterday, Holden chief executive Mike Devereux said no decision had been made
Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss said the decision was "made in Detroit"

HOLDEN will close its Australian operations, including Elizabeth in 2017, with the loss of 2900 jobs, the company has told its South Australian workforce.
In a statement, the company says it will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing by the end of 2017 and significantly reduce engineering operations in Australia.
About 1600 positions at the Elizabeth plant will go, and 1300 in Victoria.

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Jethro:
What a crying shame  :tears: :tears: As a tradesmen long off the tools it's a crying shame to have seen the demise of manufacturing in Australia go down the shyte shute over the last 20 odd years. I'm only a simple person but have always lost to Fadden why we the smallest country in the world have to lead the way in zero import duties, carbon emission, aid to other countries, yadda yadda yadda only at the detriment of our manufacturing and small businesses :tears: :tears:

Why is it so that a third world country like  / Korea / India / China can manufacture a Tonne of steel and import it to Australia with no import duties or tariffs and if we where the reverse the role we would have to pay import Taxes ? let alone we have to build, Wage Taxes, Medibank, Super, Hol's, Minimum wages, Loading, Penatilty rates yadda, yadda yadda.....How can we compete with that  :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

bfit:
Shirt jethro
Something serious I'm impressed

I agree
Steel is a good item to start with
When we quote a fabrication job with australian steel there is no hope of getting the work
This country has been going down hill since the Whitlam day
When the wages explosion of those years

We are fast heading to be a third world country
When you hirer a worker now ,
It all about there rites etc etc
And nothing about doing a good job and pride in doing a job in good  time
He first time
You mentioned tradesman
Good tradesman are few and hard to find,
I could go on
But won't , as long as politicians line their own nest first and foremost
The country is sexually interfered with
Bfit

raafrebel:
Well that is terrible news. end of an erra.

coradict72:
It was costing your money to keep holden alive.
Its our unfortunate we dont drive on the right side
as they could send their cars direct we would be driving chevys as we should
and other types including challengers,chargers and mustangs and of course
corvettes without the rip off conversion I still dont see the sense of destroying a perfect car.
So its good bye holden anybody that works for someone needs a backdoor you just cant rely
on a company to keep you forever especially in manufacturing you cant compete with
$1.20 and hour wages and twice the speed in making a car.Go cut grass,clean offices i did.
Will someone step up soon like a dick smith and build cars here for 10K fully optioned
or any of the other rich folk willing to pay $40 an hr for labor which a worker would want.
Gotta blame someone you really cant blame detroit have you been there lately?
I'm sure they made their inevitable  and heart felt decision to close much sooner once
the government wished it.And as they say the new detroit is thailand the real detroit is just about dead.

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