:12:02
We'll try to have someone contact you
as soon as someone's available.
:12:07
- All right, I'd appreciate it.
- Have you got some kind of credentials?
:12:10
- Where they can contact you?
- What's your name?
:12:13
Herb Slaughter.
I'll give you a business card.
:12:20
Let's see, I've got a frequent-flier card...
:12:25
Visa...
:12:27
I was having a hard time finding my
business card, because I don't have any.
:12:31
So I gave Mr. Slaughter my discount pass
to Chuck E. Cheese...
:12:35
but he said that wouldn't get me in
to see Mr. Smith.
:12:37
So I headed back to Flint for further
guidance from GM lobbyist Tom Kay.
:12:42
General Motors wouldn't be doing
anybody any service if it goes bankrupt.
:12:46
It has to do what it has to do...
:12:48
in order to stay competitive
in today's economic climate.
:12:51
Even if it means eliminating 18,000 jobs?
:12:55
Even if it means eliminating 20,000 jobs.
:12:58
- Or 30,000?
- Whatever.
:13:00
How about all the jobs here in Flint?
:13:03
It could feasibly happen.
:13:05
Good evening, I'm Sue Zelenko.
Bill Harris has the night off.
:13:08
It was where the UAW was born.
:13:10
Tonight 3,000 people are trying to decide
what to do with their lives.
:13:14
Nobody was ready for the announced
plant shutdowns today...
:13:17
least of all, the 1,350 workers.
:13:18
The last truck chassis headed
down the line this morning.
:13:20
Virtually all the 3,400 people are on layoff.
:13:23
Larry Elliot was at the plant today...
:13:25
as that last car was making its way
down the assembly line.
:13:28
Will this plant build engines again
if the rush back to small cars occurs?
:13:32
The answer is no.
:13:34
In Flint, Joe Weaver,
Channel 2 Eyewitness News.
:13:37
More factories had closed...
:13:39
and I began to see the effect
this was having on my friends.
:13:41
Ben was the worker I'd put on the cover
of that magazine in San Francisco.
:13:46
He'd been laid off
five times in five years from GM.
:13:49
Expecting to be laid off again, he cracked
one night working on the assembly line.
:13:53
He was now shooting hoop
at the local mental health center.
:13:58
I couldn't take it. I told the guy next to me: