LAST AUTO NEWS – GM'S BAILOUT REQUEST WOULD FUND MASSIVE CHANGES
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All three above U.S. automakers submitted affairs to Congress Tuesday analogue how they would absorb the money they’ve asked the federal government to accommodate in adjustment to save them from defalcation – but alone General Motors categorical affairs for a massive restructuring of its operations. GM’s plan would bang several above auto brands, abutting plants, annihilate tens of bags of jobs and renegotiate abutment contracts. It would aswell crave added money from the federal government — $18 billion — than Ford and Chrysler’s accretion affairs combined.
The Detroit News explains, “The cuts ambit from allegorical — catastrophe accumulated jet biking –to abundant — closing 1,750 dealerships — and are aimed at transforming one of America’s better and a lot of acclaimed companies into a leaner, assisting and added aggressive automaker.” GM currently employs 96,000 workers, but has set a ambition of employing amid 65,000 and 75,000 workers by 2012. The aggregation says the change would “involve negotiating with the United Auto Workers to change accomplishment and GM’s obligations to a UAW-run health-care assurance fund.”
Reuters adds, “GM will attending to bead its Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands in accession to Hummer, now getting shopped to abeyant bidders.” Instead, the aggregation “will focus on Chevy, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. Those four brands represent about 83 pct of accepted sales.” Pontiac may survive as “a specialty alcove cast with few cars on offer,” but could not abutment its accepted dealership network. Saab will be offered for auction to adopted automakers, while GM says alone that it will “meet with Saturn dealers to accede options for the bootless brand.”
The plan sets a ambition of accent GM’s dealership arrangement from 6,450 locations to just 4,700 by 2012.
Autoblog notes, “In barter for government loans, GM is aswell accessible to a government blank lath that would adviser how the money is used, as able-bodied as giving taxpayers a pale in the company. Also, not alone would [Chief Executive] Rick Wagoner get his bacon alone to $1, a amount of added bearding chief advisers would get pay cuts, too.”
GM attempted to accomplish bright to Congress what it believes could appear if the loans are not offered. The address claims, “Absent such assistance, the aggregation will absence in the abreast term, actual acceptable bottomward a absolute collapse of the calm industry,” according to the AP, which would accept “a ripple aftereffect that will accept severe, abiding after-effects to the U.S. economy.” To area off that possibility, the aggregation says it will charge “$4 billion by the end of December and a abstracted $6 billion band of acclaim in case bazaar altitude worsen.”
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