December 07. 2011 3:57PM
GM trims salaried workers
White-collar ranks thinned slowly in global streamlining
Bryce G. Hoffman/ The Detroit News
General Motors Co. has quietly begun laying off white-collar workers as it works to consolidate its global operations.
The numbers are small — a dozen here, a dozen there — but more are coming before the end of the year.
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"We are streamlining our business, looking for efficiencies and, to this extent, there could be some headcount reductions and it will be on a global basis."
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"Literally, we have 7,000 more people working on the same amount of work on our competitors," Akerson told The News in a June interview. "It's just like the Communist Party in China in the 1960s. There has to be a cultural revolution here."
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111207/AUTO01/112070327/1148/auto01/GM-trims-salaried-workers

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