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...year in which only 10 million vehicles are sold would completely undermine the restructuring plans that the companies will present to Congress before the end of the quarter. The plan that GM gave to Congress last month assumed that the car company could break-even in the US if the domestic market supported 12.5 million vehicle sales. GM is already starting to hint that its assumptions for revenue have been...
When the government provided GM and Chrysler with $13.4 billion to support their operations though the first quarter, a number of members of Congress objected to the bailout which has been estimated to carry a $34 billion price...
...GM and Chrysler are already running into trouble with the UAW, creditors,and suppliers as the two companies bargain to drop costs. The union says it gave plenty of concessions during the last set of contract negotiations. For cosmetic purposes, it may bend more but is probably willing to gamble that the government will not allow the two car companies to go into bankruptcy and force the loss of hundreds of thousand of jobs in an economy that is already battling rapidly rising unemployment...
Creditors may be willing to make the same bet about the government's future. Since they are likely to get only a small part of the value of their debt in negotiations with GM and Chrysler, they may elect to wait the process...
...Center of Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., says that for past 25 years the UAW has succeeded in avoiding rollbacks in wages and benefits. The union may do it again. "I don't think there is going to be a wage roll-back," McAlinden says, despite the GM's bridge-loan agreement with the White House that gave GM $13.4 billion...