Union leaders at the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Auto Workers, who were unavailable for comment late Sunday, have said in the past that they fear plant closings and job cuts on top of those sought in restructuring attempts over the past decade at Chrysler.
Aggressive restructuring strengthens union leadership; defensive restructuring attempts to stabilize the union to assure survival.
Yet for all that, the new Woolworth -- er, Venator -- cannot command the recognition that would seem appropriate for one of the largest restructuring attempts in recent corporate history.
They have focused too much on physical restructuring, attempting to reduce the complex, vital, and dynamic reality of governmental processes to essentially artificial dualities, such as 'outputs' and 'outcomes', 'owner' and 'purchaser', 'funder' and 'provider'provider
Even after making restructuring attempts such as the sale of its personal computer division, shares in the Japanese giant are about 14 per cent lower than when the abrasive activist investor Mr Loeb first urged a spin-off of the entertainment business last May so that the company could focus on its struggling electronicsdivision.
Sara Lee's inability to grow despite McMillan's restructuring attempts is a persistent question that's certain to come up again during Thursday's earnings conference call.
The selection of an equity partner allows Air Canada, the country's No. 1 carrier and Earth's No. 11, to speed up its restructuring attempts and emerge from bankruptcy protection.
Laurus, the number two retailer in the Netherlands, is restructuring in an attempt to keep Ahold in sight.
The Cerritos-based U.S. import and distribution arm of Japan's Isuzu Motors Ltd. is restructuring in an attempt to find a new place for itself in the North American market and said details of the plan would be announced April 17. "There will continue to be an Isuzu in the U.S.," spokesman Charles Letzgus said Monday.
