They will probably see improved quality when the new workers hit the line interested in keeping the job and interested in doing a quality job. Far better than the old union employees more interested in how they can increase lazy time and no longer interested in the quality of the work they are doing. Don't forget it is those union employees that have been putting out the shoddy workmanship that has put GM in the low end of quality.
?Our customers don?t know this is going on, and they don?t care?
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> GM's executive director of manufacturing quality Joe Mazzeo speaks the
> truth when he tells The Detroit News that GM's customers are oblivious to
> the threat to vehicle quality posed by GM's employee changeover. But they
> might care later, after GM replaces some 19k "top tier" union workers with
> half-price subs, expecting them to hit the assembly line after two week's
> training. "GM has been flooded with job seekers at many plants, but first
> crack at the jobs goes to idled employees of GM and Delphi Corp., the
> automaker's bankrupt former parts unit. The jobs then open up to
> outsiders, whose only shot at landing one is to be referred by someone who
> works at a factory." How reassuring. On the other hand, "GM is going to
> exhaustive lengths to ensure the shift doesn't erase hard-won improvements
> in factory efficiency and vehicle quality? [Workers] will be reminded that
> well-made vehicles keep consumers buying, which in turn leads to job
> security ? and vice versa. Many workers will get a job shadowing
> assignment, and all of them will learn through simulated training done on
> assembly lines with fake cars made of two-by-fours and plywood." As for
> how many of those 19k union jobs are being axed and how many simply
> "downsized," the DetN is clear: "The automaker won't say." Oh, and those
> workers who are "transitioning" from one tier to the other get ten day's
> training? the same amount of education Disney requires for its "cast > members."
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> GM preps for new hires after buyouts
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