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...President's auto task force is stark and steep: shrink labor costs, including retiree health-care expenses; slash debt; kill or sell low-performing brands; and reduce the number of models for sale and the number of dealers selling them. Should GM, the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the company's bondholders fail to figure out how to execute those tasks by June 1, the government will usher GM into bankruptcy, which could lead to its breakup into "good" and "bad" subsidiaries. The bad would be sold for parts...
...harder job facing the Administration comes when the 60-day window is up for restructuring GM outside of bankruptcy. The biggest challenge for GM remains fashioning a plan acceptable to the UAW, which represent GM's 62,000 workers, and its bondholders, mostly banks and other large institutions, which are owed some $27.5 billion and by law are first in line to get paid back. It's fairly clear the Administration wants to make bondholders eat huge losses - or make them try their luck in bankruptcy court. "No bankruptcy judge is going to rule against GM and its plan...
...such as Hummer and Saturn, and dumping the retiree health-care liabilities into it. That company could be sold off or wound down. A second company would comprise the better performing Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Pontiac and GMC brands. That ongoing firm could be partly owned by the bondholders, the UAW and other creditors...
...truly shocked," says analyst Dennis DesRosiers of Richmond Hill, Ont.-based DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. "LaSorda said things I thought I would never hear from an auto executive." The privately owned automaker has not shown the same flash of bravado and temper in dealing with Congress and the United Autoworkers (UAW) at home. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
Chrysler may be trying to push the CAW's wage costs below that of the UAW's. Chrysler's hourly compensation for its Canadian work force, including non-wage benefits such as paid time off, is about $58 (C$75) compared with $55 in the U.S . The Detroit Three have extensive operations in Canada because under the Auto Pact signed in the 1960s, they agreed to make 60% of the cars sold to Canadians in their country. In exchange, tariffs were removed from vehicle imports...