roger and me

Roger & Me The struggle between GM and the workers they laid off in Flint, Michigan is quite evident. The higher ups in GM management, as in Roger Smith, president of General Motors, decided that GM was going to greatly downsize their workforce in order to save some money. Smith moved his factories to Mexico where he could pay the workers a much lower wage than he could in the United States. Some thirty thousand workers …showed first 75 words of 1056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…GM never moved out of Flint? Who knows, today it could have been a major industrial city with several large factories and a very low poverty rate. Of course that’s just a what if and its not reality. The reality is that Smith did leave and as a result thousands of people could not give food or shelter to their families and Flint, Michigan would never be the same beautiful city it once was.