This week marks the beginning of a new operating structure intended to speed day-to-day decision-making at GM.
There's no evidence that either they or the public are looking positively at GM foods.
The motor and drive unit are assembled at GM's Baltimore operations plant in White Marsh, Md.
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And the UAW will no doubt want to preserve "pattern" contracts at GM, Ford and Chrysler.
Yet there's a lot going right at GM, and it's all easy to overlook.
He led a product renaissance at GM after it went into bankruptcy last year.
Rick Wagoner was gone at GM years before he was close to retirement age.
When Ewanick arrived at GM in the spring of 2010, the Chevrolet brand was in disarray.
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Successful turnarounds at GM and Ford in the U.S. are weighed down by problems in Europe.
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Wagoner made sweeping changes at GM, the results of which are coming into fruition now, he says.
Though unpopular on the shop floor at GM, it's a view still strongly held by senior republicans.
Prior to Disney, Scott was chief technology officer at GM and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
"As difficult as it was for him at GM, it'll be even more difficult at Ford, " Tynan says.
She graduated in 1985 and went to work full-time at GM as an engineer in the Pontiac Fiero plant.
It's unlikely that their fellow members at GM would approve even deeper cuts.
Look at GM, and look around for the US Tire or TV industries.
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To the good folks at GM's Orion Township assembly hall in Orion, Mich.
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The drive unit and motor will be assembled of U.S. and globally sourced parts at GM's White Marsh, Md.
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America's big car firms are shrinking and he well knows that bankruptcy at GM would not serve his members' interests.
At GM, however, waste is viewed not as something to be thrown away, but as a resource out of place.
So why is Ford taking a cheap shot at GM and Chrysler now, two years after its competitors emerged from bankruptcy?
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The point GM was trying to make was that everyone at GM was obsessed with quality, as witnessed by its 100, 000-mile warranty.
It may be a small gesture but it demonstrates a creativity that has been severely lacking at GM for far too long.
And Chrysler is overly dependent on gas-guzzling trucks: 68% of its U.S. sales are pickups, minivans and SUVs, compared with 60% at GM.
Exporting jobs to low-wage countries like Mexico and China is an old game at GM and Ford, through their now-independent partsmakers Delphi and Visteon.
So Ewanick hit the ground running at GM and launched one breathtaking move after another, most of them designed to upset the old order.
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Saab's main union, IF Metal, is already annoyed at GM for doing two things at once: winding down the automaker while picking through takeover bids.
All of this comes, ironically, as overall quality at GM improves.
Sales have continued to tumble through the early months of this year, falling 40 percent across the industry and about 50 percent at GM and Chrysler.
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