[Keith Tedford]

Since 1983 the Oshawa truck plant has more than doubled its production per shift and at the same time reduced the man hours to build a vehicle. There appears to be at least 3 levels of management on the floor at all times. Workers are constantly being put on notice, given written reprimands and/or threatened with time off without pay. Many of the supervisors are people off the street with minimal management training and certainly little to none in the automotive industry. People skills appear to be a thing of the past. A whip works better. The workers, at least in Oshawa, are more than carrying their share of the load in turning the company around. Dent a truck and you get reprimanded or worse. Blow $2 billion on a sour Fiat deal and that's ok. We have to turn off a lot of computers and lights on weekends to save that kind of money. We bought a new Jimmy from the Linden plant. The workers appear to be doing a great job there as well as we have had zero problems and everything was assembled properly. GM's problems are definitely up the ladder and you only have to look at the first rung to start.