Feldman and Wilson, who have been advising the Teamsters since last summer, also worked together on President Barack Obama's auto task force during the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler.

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In recent months, my Auto Task Force has been reviewing requests by General Motors and Chrysler for additional government assistance, as well as plans developed by each of these companies to restructure, to modernize, and to make themselves more competitive.

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In the cases of both GM and Chrysler, the administration's Auto Task Force was not impressed that the companies haven't been able to modify their agreements with the UAW on compensation reductions, severance pay and a union-managed health care trust.

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And together with Labor Secretary Solis and my Auto Task Force, Ed will help provide support to auto workers and their families, and open up opportunity to manufacturing communities in Michigan and Ohio and Indiana and every other state that relies on the auto industry.

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Yet, thanks to President Obama's auto task-force and a shotgun marriage with Fiat, Chrysler motors wearily on.

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Senior members of the auto task-force found Chrysler to be better run in some ways than GM.

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The idea of a single "Car Czar" to oversee the rebuilding of the auto industry is now out the window, replaced by a task force led by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, two of the most over-extended men in the history of American government.

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