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...survive - government bailout or not - there's no leaving out the United Auto Workers. Delicate negotiations on things like retiree health benefits will be necessary as the car companies, unions and the government try to chart a course that will keep the American auto industry afloat. Enter Ron Bloom. President Obama has scrapped his initial plan for a "car czar", but Bloom - who has strong ties to private banking and labor - will reportedly serve in a high-profile advisory role on an automobile task force at the Department of the Treasury. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...currently employed by the Pittsburgh-based United Steelworkers union, which has 1.2 million working and retired members. Bloom has worked as a special assistant to the USW president since 1996 and his duties include helping the union affect corporate business restructuring, investments, bankruptcies and mergers. He is particularly known for working on deals related to recent steel industry bankruptcies. In many of these deals, the USW made considerable concessions in order to help steel companies stay afloat...
...January 1990, Bloom and another Lazard banker quit the company to start their own boutique firm...
...Bloom is a 53 year-old New York native, has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he came from a proud union family that includes an aunt who was a leader in the teachers' union...
...Student facilities are absolutely inadequate,” Bloom said, “but we’ve done the best...