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...workers disagree. "The administration tried to scare people and make them nervous. They say to the workers: `We're one big happy family. Let's give it some time.' They make the union look like outsiders," says Joan Bailey, a United Auto Workers organizer who helped establish the B.U. union when she was a worker there...
House special counsel William French has accused Mecham of obstructing justice in connection with the alleged death threat, of concealing the $350,000 loan, and of misusing state funds by borrowing $80,000 for his auto dealership...
...Take auto racing. Cars look like bicycle racers nowadays. Of course, there are the one or two main sponsors featured prominently on the car's rear quarter panel and hood...
...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City routinely plays host to Presidents, Prime Ministers and tycoons. But even for that glittering hostelry, the lavish auto show that General Motors put on last week was something special. During a three-day extravaganza, punctuated by a black-tie dinner and bubbly receptions, an army of executives and engineers greeted some 16,000 invited guests: GM stockholders and workers, Wall Street analysts, suppliers, mayors, even teachers and schoolchildren. On display in the Waldorf ballrooms was a dizzying array of 24 GM cars and trucks, ranging from the rugged GMC Sierra Pickup...
...mixed reviews for its show, which its employees dubbed "Rogerama," a reference to the splashy Motorama auto shows that the company held at the Waldorf a generation ago. Said Thomas J. Peters, a management consultant and co-author of the best-selling book In Search of Excellence: "This show is pathetic in the deepest sense of the word. GM does not have a p.r. problem, it ; has a car problem." Peters and other detractors maintain that consumers have been turned off by GM's lack of innovation and its look-alike designs, which have made it hard to tell...