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...September specifically for the automakers and their suppliers or from the $700 billion in federal assistance that Congress approved to bail out struggling banks. GM wants the money to come from the $700 billion and to save the $25 billion to pay for new vehicle development, noted Sean McAlinden of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...eligible employees will eventually accept the packages. That means that over the next two years, the buyouts should enable GM to trim its hourly workforce in the U.S. - which approached 500,000 during the late 1970s - to around 80,000 or less, according to Sean McAlinden of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition, the hourly payroll at Delphi, the supplier company GM spun off in 1999, could be trimmed from 34,000 today to about...
...United Auto Workers seem to believe the most militant UAW members will opt for retirement rather than a confrontation over likely future wage cuts at Delphi, which is also covered under the buyout agreement. The buyouts give the union a little more room for bargaining on future concessions, says McAlinden. With the buyout agreement in place, representatives from the UAW and Delphi Corp. are slated to resume discussions on rewriting the bankrupt company's existing contract with the union. GM representatives also are expected to participate in the talks, suggesting that GM plans to keep a close...
...nearly as productive as Toyota's U.S. plants, yet Toyota has the advantage of not having to pay health-care bills for a small city of retirees, population 340,000. One GM worker supports 2.65 retirees, adding $1,100 in "legacy" costs to each American-made vehicle, says Sean McAlinden, an economist at the Center for Automotive Research. While the Japanese government pays for most Toyota retirees in Japan, GM shelled out $3.6 billion to pay for retiree health care just last year. GM's turnaround plan is a high-wire act: pushing up the launch of new pickups...
Even if Los Angeles' limited experiment is successful, the technology will not necessarily be widely used. "This is real futuristic stuff," says Sean McAlinden, a researcher with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller...