GM seeks deep cuts in white-collar ranks

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Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
Can some one explain to me why GM (and other automakers) just dump the UAW and hire non-unionized people? Or form another union with better people and better rules?

I fail to see how the employees can strangle a large company like GM?

This whole paying $60Billion for retirees is bullshit! I was reading in hte paper that in 2001 their expenditure in taht area was in teh millions....and now it shot up to the billions!

Someoen is scamming them.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosinsider/0403/11/a01-88813.htm

http://www.businessword.com/index.php/weblog/comments/870/

 

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Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
Can some one explain to me why GM (and other automakers) just dump the UAW and hire non-unionized people? Or form another union with better people and better rules?

I fail to see how the employees can strangle a large company like GM?

This whole paying $60Billion for retirees is bullshit! I was reading in hte paper that in 2001 their expenditure in taht area was in teh millions....and now it shot up to the billions!

Someoen is scamming them.

Because the company can't run without all it's employees. If all the employees leave, who is there to train new people? Forming a new union won't work, because eventually they'll say, "The old union did this..." Anyways, read up on the history of labor unions and you'll understand why they just have to be dealt with.