Word: gm
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...immune from job losses due to this contracting economy. Tech companies such as Microsoft (MSFT) fired people. So did many retail operations including Macy's (M).Consolidation efforts led by Pfizer's (PFE) marriage to Wyeth (WYE) have begun to put tens of thousands of people out of work. GM (GM) is signaling that it may have to take another 15,000 or 20,000 jobs off its payroll in the next month to convince the federal government that it can become economically viable in a market in which car sales are still falling...
...immune from job losses due to this contracting economy. Tech companies such as Microsoft (MSFT) fired people. So did many retail operations including Macy's (M). Consolidation efforts led by Pfizer's (PFE) marriage to Wyeth (WYE) have begun to put tens of thousands of people out of work. GM (GM) is signaling that it may have to take another 15,000 or 20,000 jobs off its payroll in the next month to convince the federal government that it can become economically viable in a market in which car sales are still falling. (See pictures of TIME's Wall...
Some of the companies that need to let people go have lost such a large portion of their sales that they have virtually no choice but to cut staff. That certainly holds true for GM (GM) and United Airlines (UAUA...
...boards of GM (GM) and Ford (F) have also been singled out because they willfully refused to prepare for the demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. Management at these companies went for the easy money by building large SUVs and pick-ups when fuel prices were low. That was hardly a good five-year plan as the results of the last several quarters have proven. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Several GM board members have served since the late 1990s, so they have seen enough of the history of the car industry to know that oil does not stay cheap forever. Two of the longer serving members on the Ford board are members of the founding family. They could hardly have missed the lessons of the early 1970s oil crisis...