# Plants/Vehicles affected by American Axle strike **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945 "2008-05-05T15:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![Drexial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Drexial](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Drexial)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945/16 "2008-05-05T19:35:58Z")
> [@Violator](#): > > If the Americans are too fucking stupid to realize that they are KILLING the companies they work for then yes, fuck them. WHATS THE POINT of STANDING UP FOR WHATS RIGHT if your actions force the company to lose money, close plants, and eventually go bankrupt or scale back to where they fire your dumb ass along with thousands of others? > > I dont understand why its so hard for these people to agree on something productive Most companies don’t close down and ship over seas because they are losing money. They do it so they are making more to keep share holders happy. Not because their business will go under if they don’t. When you have hit a maximum in growth and you are leveling off. But still have to convince share holders to stay, you have to make a bigger profit. So the way to this is to cut back costs. Not because you have to to stay open. But because you always need to show growth. A company that has leveled off is as good as one that is loosing money in investments. In fact most of the time when you hear “so and so suffered a loss of $80 million this quarter” they aren’t actually loosing money, they are just $80 million under the projected profits. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945)._