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...Davos we tend to focus, and rightly so, on issues of global integration," Summers said. "But I would suggest to you that issues of local disintegration—whether that means Flint, Michigan, whether that means failed states, whether that means struggling middle classes caught in binds everywhere—are of equal importance...
...lived in Flint, Michigan, for 27 years and worked for GM. The company's problem is simple: arrogance of the worst kind. Its management will not listen to others. GM cars are poorly designed. Corporate officials and the outdated, unionized workforce can't get along. The result is a company in which cars are produced by two antagonistic groups?an unhappy union and an overbearing management. Lou Rife Nashville, Tennessee...
...workers should take cuts in pay and benefits when the automaker frequently touts the quality of its products. If assembly-line workers are putting cars together so well, they should not be the ones to suffer so much in a restructuring. Sandy McLendon Marietta, Georgia, U.S. I lived in Flint, Michigan, for 27 years and worked for GM. The company's problem is simple: arrogance of the worst kind. Its management will not listen to others. GM cars are poorly designed. Corporate officials and the outdated, unionized workforce can't get along. The result is a company in which cars...
...lived in Flint, Mich., for 27 years and worked for GM. The company's problem is simple: arrogance of the worst kind. Its management will not listen to others. GM cars are poorly designed. Corporate officials and the outdated, unionized workforce can't get along. The result is a company with two antagonistic groups--an unhappy union and an overbearing management. LOU RIFE Nashville, Tenn...
...says. Buick City, where he works, was once a vast manufacturing complex more than a mile in length. It's now mostly a desolate field of crushed stone surrounded by parking lots too big for GM's shrinking workforce. If you didn't know you were in Flint, Mich., you might think you were at an old Soviet factory that made nameless products no one really wanted...