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百年通用掘墓人Office: and the windmill Don Quixote fighting(上任:与“风车”作战的堂吉诃德In 2000, when the 47-year-old Wagner became universal a century the youngest CEO in history, he found aboard the ship in general the appearance of the powerful behind fragile. The most fundamental is that he served as CEO is facing a strong opponent to challenge to avoid: trade unions. UAW, United Auto Workers union, the largest U.S. trade unions. Due to the presence of UAW, GMs hourly wages of skilled workers to 73 dollars, while rival Toyotas hourly wage of workers is only 49 dollars. In general, employees receive free medical insurance, including retired workers. In general, the workers even if the can not do it, where alone, you can get overtime. Or in general, workers still receive 95 percent during the period of unemployment pay, but also open-ended unemployed. According to statistics, the average General Motors, with 1500 U.S. dollars per employee health insurance costs, while Toyota is only 97 U.S. dollars! The face of human cost of this cancer Wagner once Banqi the Don Quixote role. In October 2005, Wagner reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers union to reduce health care 15 billion U.S. dollars of debt. A month later, he announced a corporate restructuring plan: three years, laid off 30000, close 9 plants. January 8, 2006, at the annual Detroit auto show, when Wagners speech, when hundreds of workers in the pavilion outside the car holding a traitor, but also my pension! Banner parade. In order to calm the workers dissatisfied with the reduction of medical expenditures, Wagner announced that the year I pay half, from 4.8 million U.S. dollars fell to 2.4 million U.S. dollars, in 2007, he then fell to 1.65 million salary. Not long ago, he even expressed their willingness to plan and only one U.S. dollars a year. ? However, Wagners efforts can not melt the ice in several decades. Even today, GM has been at stake, unions are still refusing to cut wages down to th