Американский автопром.

General Motors по итогам 2011 года планирует потратить порядка 500 млн. долларов на бонусы сотрудникам:

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GM, which made a record profit in 2011, will pay bonuses of at least $182 million to white-collar workers such as engineers, car designers and managers on Wednesday, according to a formula obtained by The Associated Press. That's on top of $332.5 million in profit-sharing it already agreed to pay factory workers.

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и это при том, что компанию недавно выкупали "всем миром" =

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The U.S. spent nearly $50 billion to save GM three years ago, and some Republicans think the government should get its money back before bonuses are paid. The company nearly ran out of cash when auto sales dropped during the financial crisis. With little or no private loans available, GM needed a bailout to make it through bankruptcy protection. The government agreed to take stock in GM in exchange for most of the debt.

 

So far it has recouped more than $22 billion. Taxpayers still own 500 million shares of GM, or 26.5 percent of the company. If the government sold those shares at the current price of around $26, it would get about $13.2 billion. But it's waiting for the stock price to rise before selling. Shares would have to sell for more than $53 each for the government to get all its money back, which is unlikely.

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