{"id":77275,"date":"2014-06-05T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=77275"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:17:31","slug":"gm-fires-15-employees-for-role-in-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/06\/gm-fires-15-employees-for-role-in-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Fires 15 Employees for Role in Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GM CEO Mary Barra outlines the findings of the investigation of the automaker by former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GM dismissed 15 employees and disciplined five others in the fallout from the controversy over the fallout from the faulty ignition switch used in small cars that have engulfed the company.<\/p>\n

GM Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra said that the employees are no longer with the company and included employees from several different departments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor the most part they were on the senior level,\u201d Barra said.<\/p>\n

The fundamental problem was that the employees allowed a part that didn\u2019t meet specifications to go into production and secondly didn\u2019t understand how the faulty part could have interacted with other critical systems such as the airbags.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were deemed incompetent or they didn\u2019t understand their role in the company,\u201d said Barra, who also insisted there was no conspiracy among employees to cover up the ramifications of the faulty part.<\/p>\n

At least some of the employees involved in the house cleaning came from GM\u2019s legal department, but she said the company\u2019s top lawyer is still with the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall the report found that, from start to finish, the Cobalt saga was riddled with failures which led to tragic results for many,\u201d Barra said, adding there was no evidence that any employee made a trade-off between safety and cost.<\/p>\n

(GM misdiagnosed switch problem, report said. For more, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Reuss, GM vice president for product development, said in many cases the terminated employees did not look at the impact on the entire vehicle.\u00a0GM now has a system in place that will prevent the problem from recurring again, he said.<\/p>\n

(<\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for details on Mini\u2019s new four-door.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have strengthened the product development process,\u201d Barra said. \u201cIn the case of the Cobalt, it was clearly a safety problem,\u201d added Barra, who declined to say how many employees were actually dismissed or forced to retire since many of them had accumulated years of service with GM.<\/p>\n

(To see more about GM\u2019s report, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been dramatic change at General Motors,\u201d Barra said.\u00a0\u201cThere is a commitment to do great vehicles. A culture doesn\u2019t change overnight. It\u2019s a journey,\u201d she said, adding afety and quality are critical.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be a better company,\u201d she said. \u201cOur employees are disappointed. They want to build great cars, trucks and crossovers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM dismissed 15 employees and disciplined five others in the fallout from the controversy over the fallout from the faulty ignition switch used in small cars that have engulfed the company. The departed were deemed incompetent or failing to be accountable. To get all of the information, please go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":77274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77275"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=77275"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=77275"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=77275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}