Pete DeLorenzo d'Autoextremist www.autoextremist.com donne son opinion là-dessus
GM's Rick Wagoner is sent packing as President Obama opens a Pandora's Box of Not Good.
By Peter M. De Lorenzo
Detroit. Tomorrow morning President Obama is expected to announce that GM (and Chrysler) will get additional emergency funding, while giving each company more time to achieve additional cuts with, in GM's case, its bondholders and the UAW. The President will also seize the moment to chastise the American automobile industry yet again, as if that will somehow make up for the missed opportunity that blew right by him when he failed to take swift enough action on the AIG mess. (By Monday morning, Obama's plans were emerging. GM would get 60 days to get its situation in order, Chrysler would get just 30 days, but only if it makes a deal with Fiat. It's clear that the Obama administration is pushing for a "quick-rinse" bankruptcy with government protection for consumers who buy vehicles from these manufacturers as part of the package.)
And as part of his "shared sacrifice" mantra that he's so good at relentlessly pounding into the American public while framing the domestic automobile industry as some sort of national scourge, Obama demanded and received a body - in this case the body of GM chairman and and CEO Rick Wagoner - so he could hold it up to the American public on one of his administration's custom-built chrome-plated pitchforks and say, "See, I'm doing what I promised! I am slaying the evil dragons of American corporate greed! I will reshape America into a kindler, gentler nation of group hugs while creating a more realistic and caring set of common corporate goals!"
And not only was an ugly precedent set, but America's future has just been turned dark by the realization that our government will not hesitate to reach into every available orifice - corporate or otherwise - and put their stamp on it if it doesn't quite conform to the Obama Administration's Shiny Happy Vision of what this country is supposed to be.
Contrary to the horde of instant pundit-experts out there who don't have the first clue as to what this industry is all about - or what it's like to actually work in this industry - Rick Wagoner was by no means the evil architect of GM's current predicament. Yes, Wagoner made some mistakes, and I have documented them long before the "Rick Wagoner Must Go" train left the pundit station. The Fiat adventure was disastrous, and Wagoner's initial reluctance to wrestle with GM's bloated structure proved costly. But Mr. Wagoner's most glaring failing really wasn't his at all, but rather it was that he was a product of GM's long corroded and obsolete cultural ideal that the people who run the company should only come from the financial office. This is nothing new it should be pointed out, because it has been part of the GM raison d'etre since the Alfred Sloan era. But it was Rick Wagoner's - and GM's - reality.
But there was another side to Rick Wagoner's tenure that the instant pundits out there either refuse to acknowledge - out of their out and out hatred for anything to do with GM and Detroit - or that they simply couldn't fathom because of their abject lack of experience or what is probably closer to the truth, their complete lack of understanding of how this business actually operates. And that is that if Rick Wagoner hadn't taken the aggressively decisive actions that he did take, GM would have been out of business years ago.
Wagoner's move into the Chinese market (a continuation of the doctrine laid out by his predecessor, Jack Smith) proved to be pivotal in providing a road map for the company's future. And Wagoner's insistence on utilizing and exploiting the global capabilities of GM's far reaching corporate empire, with forays into Korea, Brazil, Mexico and Eastern Europe, laid the groundwork for a completely modernized and globally competitive endeavor.
But Wagoner's most impressive move during his tenure was to recognize his own limitations as a financially-oriented leader, while at the same time setting his own ego aside in order to bring Bob Lutz into the company. Wagoner handed Lutz the keys to GM's woefully moribund product development system and said "Fix it," while giving Lutz carte blanche to do it. And the results were magnificent. During Wagoner's tenure - while benefiting from the vision, passion and sheer will to succeed that Lutz brought to the table - GM saw its greatest design, engineering and product era since its glory days of the 60s.
Down the road, long after the lynch mob hysteria subsides - and this administration's pitchforks have been hopefully melted down into brand spanking new American-made automobiles - Rick Wagoner's tenure will be judged more fairly and with the proper perspective. But until that time it must be said that the economic catastrophe that overwhelmed this country conspired to bring an entire foundation American industry to its knees, and there was no leader - socially "approved" or otherwise - who could have prevented GM and the rest of the domestic automobile business from collapsing.
Rick Wagoner and I had our run-ins (he didn't take too kindly to my early writings in Autoextremist.com, to put it mildly), and we've never had more than a passing conversational relationship at the countless car events over the years, but he's far from the ogre that his critics make him out to be. On the contrary, he is an exceedingly bright, gifted and personable executive who has ended up taking a bullet for the company that he has been a part of since 1977. And he did it in order to appease the overlords in the Obama administration so that the company he loved would live to fight another day. That says a lot about the measure of the man, in my book.
A pity I can't say the same for Mr. Obama and his posse. When I say that an ugly precedent has been set by the administration's blatant and meddlesome actions into corporate America - resulting in an executive actually losing his job - that is the understatement of this or any other year.
President Obama and the overlords in his administration have opened a Pandora's Box of Not Good by this action.
And by far the ugliest part about it?
No one has even the remotest of clues as to where or when it will stop.
Thanks for listening.
On pouvait entre en fin de semaine les complaintes d'un travailleur de cette industrie sur les ondes de RC. Le pauvre, 34$ de l'heure pour faire du ménage, c'est dire le plus bas salaire de son usine. Il travaillait aussi les fins de semaine (temps sup) et avait une paye annuelle dans les 110,00-115,000$ ....Et ça n'inclus pas les avantage "sociaux" !On se cotise tu pour le sauver ?
Dernière modification par julienn ; 30/03/2009 à 13h16.
R-C font la job juste à moitié... ils auraient dû aller voir les employés qui font la même job chez Honda et Toyota. Je pense pas qu'ils gagnent 34$/heure!
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RW a pourtant géré un programme de réductions annuelles de 7 milliards pour GM. C'est déjà une compagnie au top des ventes, s'ils ne sont pas rentables maintenant c'est qu'on parle d'une entreprise dont les problèmes sont structuraux et incontournables. Il faut que GM revienne sur un autre nom.
et il faut ajouter par-dessus le marché un billet de Richard Martineau sur le sujet http://martineau.blogue.canoe.ca/200...ndard#comments (quoique il a confondu Wagonner avec Nardelli le patron de Chrysler)Envoyé par Saintor
et un article sur le sujet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_180737.htmlPourquoi notre Président est-il plus sévère envers les bonzes de l'automobiles qu'envers les pirates de Wall Street?
Pourquoi punir les uns et ménager les autres?
Y aurait-il DEUX catégories d'escrocs?
23 Millions comme prime de départ ... j'aurais accepter sans rien dire moi aussi. C'est un soulagement pour cette homme. 1000 tonnes de pression de mois sur les épaules. Il n'a plus à répondre des décisions du passé.
Il n'a a aucune commune ressemblance entre le soutient au système financier mondial et celui a une entreprise, ou un secteur commercial.Si demain ces compagnies sont en faillites bien sûr il a des gens qui perdent leur emploi, mais la chose est temporaire vu que le marché est toujours là. Le système financier lui s'il dérape on a affaire a une crise a l'ampleur absolument pas comparable.Et voici le lien pour RC, les différents repportage sont assez intéressants. Entre réflexion pertnante qu'on y trouve, "les syndicats ont protéger les salaires au détriment des emplois".Et le concierge a la retraite c'est entre 112,000 et 119,000$ qu'il fesait..., le plus petit salaire de la place....(permier lien audio)http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite...ag/index.shtml
C'est un Ost** de gros colon ce gars la. Il chiale que le CEO fait un gros salaire "de fou de 700 000$ par année + bonus" Tabarn*** au moins le CEO il a des études et des responsabilités pour justifier son salaire. Vider des poubelles et passer le balai a 110K+ par année puis après dire que c'est pas à cause de ça (en partie du moins) que les 3 Grands sont sur le bord de s'effondrer, il faut soit être stupide ou ne pas vouloir voir la vérité en face.
J'en reviens pas
Fu** les TCA
J'aime cet article...
Il explique pourquoi le gvt américain a dit non...
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/30/a...-john-mcelroy/
GM était trop molle dans ses hypothèses...
Pour ce qui est des salaires versés, moi, ce qui me pose problème, c'est que les salaires sont versé à un niveau de 20% de plus que les constructeurs japonais pour produire un produit avec 20% de moins de valeur ajoutée... sti, ça peut pas marché...
Pour marché, il faudrait que les travailleurs du big 3 gagne 20% de moins que ceux des constructeurs asiatiques car ils ont 20% de moins en valeur ajoutée...
Clisse, on dit toujours qu'un produit américain est un bon achat si 20% moins cher que le produit japonais équivalent...
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Moi, c'est de voir qu'ils prévoient que sur les 140 000 employés de GM, 40 000 devront été illiminés. Bref, ça fait du $/employés restants en mauzus.
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