B4 - Wednesday, January 6, 1982 - North Shore News

Trying to save jobs,
says General Motors

DETROIT (UPI) - Layoffs
and benefit cuts “aren't .too
much fun,” especially
around the holidays, but are
necessary to preserve jobs
on a_ long-term basis,
General Motors Chairman
Roger Smith said recently.

“What good does it do to
give a guy a big vacation and
benefits and all that and then
tell him he’s laid off?” Smith
said in an interview.

GM < sliced vacation, cost
of living, medical and other
benefits for its 138,000
salaried employees, saving
an estimated $500 million.
Earlier GM began laying of
about 13,000 of its 190,000
worldwide white’ collar
workforce.

The moves were viewed
by some as an effort to
establish a cost cutting
pattern in advance of up
coming negotiations with the
United Auto Workers
union. GM, which is ex-
pected to make a $300
million profit this year, is
aimost certain to be the
UAW’'s target.

Smith said gaining a
toehold in the talks was “not
the major reason” for the

benefit slashes. He said GM

is trying to preserve
remaining jobs.
“Some of them = (cuts)

aren't too much fun. Nobody
likes to have to cut em-
ployment and payrolls, at
this time of year _par-
ticularly,” Smith said. “At
the same time, it’s the long-
term jobs we're trying to
save here.”

Sitting in his wood
paneled office, Smith said he
did not fear the cuts would
cause a “brain-drain” at the
automaker.

“We may lose some
people — we're not going to
lose the valuable ones,” he
said. “I think there is an
understanding we're not
doing this because we're
trying to earn some money
for the corporation.”

He praised UAW leaders’
decision to let contracts be
reopened if workers ap
prove. Smith predicted the
UAW'’s GM Council will
vote to allow a reopener but
said the union may have
missed its chance to help its
members.

“We've asked them and
asked them to sit down and

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