Roger & Me Page #2
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- Year:
- 1989
- 91 min
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a what-happens-if type of thing.
So this was GM chairman Roger Smith.
He appeared to have a brilliant plan:
First close 11 factories in the U. S...
then open 11 in Mexico, where
you pay the workers 70 cents an hour.
Use the money you saved by building cars
in Mexico to take over other companies...
preferably high-tech firms
and weapons manufacturers.
Next, tell the union you're broke...
and they happily give back
a couple of billion dollars in wage cuts.
Then take that money from workers...
by building more foreign factories.
Roger Smith was a true genius.
I think our employees
have got a new emphasis on job security...
and we want to try
and help them with that.
- What do you have to say to Roger Smith?
- t's gonna be rough.
I can't mention it on television.
This was to be
the first of many layoffs in Flint...
the final day for the GM truck plant.
I think most of you are aware...
that this is the first major plant closing...
to take place in Flint.
Let me rephrase that.
This isn't a plant closing.
It's a loss of one product line.
My friends and I decided to pose
as a TV crew from Toledo...
I wasn't exactly sure
what a TV crew from Toledo looked like...
but apparently the ruse worked, as we
filmed the last truck going down the line.
What's everybody so happy about?
We just lost our jobs.
Everybody's applauding.
They just lost their jobs.
We're trying impress upon the employees
that are being laid off...
that there is nothing out there for them...
to depend upon for the future.
The best thing Michigan and GM can do
is get rid of Roger Smith...
and them other sons of b*tches.
That seemed to be
the general consensus...
as I talked to many GM workers
about their chairman, Roger Smith.
- What would you like to tell Roger Smith?
- 'd tell him to retire.
He can't look an auto worker
in the eye, because...
- He should be feeling guilty.
- Most people are hungry. He's not.
I'd tell him to get off his big bucks...
back to its workers.
I'm sick and tired of these damn fat cats.
I could say a few choice words,
but I'm a lady and I was raised a lady...
so I won't say what I really feel...
but I could use some unsavory language
as far as the fat cats.
Fire Roger Smith!
There were those
who had a different opinion in Flint...
like Tom Kay,
a spokesman and lobbyist for GM.
I'm sure that Roger Smith...
has a social conscience
as strong as anybody else in the country.
Because a guy is an automobile executive
does not make him inhuman.
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