cascao Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) The new contact is a great effort to keep sales numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrA1ViQolvc less expensive and plenty usable Edited March 11, 2015 by cascao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectionone Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 The GG & Ossa workers just put up a Facebook community page called "Gas Gas is intended to produce and not die" https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gas-Gas-vol-produ%C3%AFr-i-no-morir/937546529611742 The sticking point now is the shareholders reluctance to inject capital. A Spanish blog reported the workers were threatening to strike for lost wages. The worker's logo looks like it's ready to be printed on picket signs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadof2 Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 Se va de mal en peor , recuerde British Leyland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_earle Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 British Leyland were Spanish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadof2 Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 British Leyland workers actions were similar to those now proposed by GG employees, by striking or threatening strike action at an inopportune moment. I have a lot of sympathy for the GG workers as the new management is proposing to lay quite a few off and reduce the wages of the rest. I have very little knowledge of Spanish employment law but it is possible that the shareholders see it being to their benefit to provoke a strike, close the factory (temporarily) and then resume production on their terms and free from some of the baggage of the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_earle Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 I get it now, Spanish has never been a subject for me. I can speak fluent F***wit after a few beers though!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huski Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 So the shareholders don't want to risk their own money,but want the smaller workforce to work for less.Sounds a great way to motivate the staff to make the bikes properly,feel sorry for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b40rt Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 So the shareholders don't want to risk their own money,but want the smaller workforce to work for less.Sounds a great way to motivate the staff to make the bikes properly,feel sorry for them Would you not require figures to make that statement ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huski Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 Clear enough from the GasGas statement from Facebook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadof2 Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 (edited) From their own perspectives both shareholder and workers demands are probably reasonable. The shareholders will have had enough of investing into a seemingly bottomless pit, they will want to see some change that should give them a chance of a return or their money back. The workers will feel that they have done nothing wrong, so why should they suffer. Some common ground and a compromised will have to be found. Se va de mal en peor , recuerde British Leyland Means Its going from bad to worse, remember British Leyland (as in failure to control costs and management vs unions) Edited March 20, 2015 by dadof2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavydabber Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Iranian investment being talked about now. But stipulation that it's only on the trials side of things...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pschrauber Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Sounds too me like a silent bankrupty, too much talk no real clue and there so little bikes in general to sell to the market. I wish and hope the best but as longer the time goes without a solution as less good will be the result if we look to similar incidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_earle Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 Iranian investment being talked about now. But stipulation that it's only on the trials side of things...? It won't be just the gearboxes blowing up if that happens!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazybond700 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 THen we get glow in the dark casings and such, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectionone Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Israeli investor, not Iranian. The new CEO is also Israeli. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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