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General Motors Co. (GM) has hired management consultant Hackett Group (HCKT) to help identify areas to cut an undetermined number of white-collar jobs, said two people familiar with the matter.

But union jobs will be spared, of course.

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But union jobs will be spared, of course.

If I'm not mistaken, their new contract requires the company to hire even more union employees.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/business/ford-and-chrysler-to-follow-gm-on-pact-uaw-chief-says.html

While the U.A.W. achieved only modest economic gains for its 48,000 members at G.M. — longtime G.M. workers will receive no wage increases under the deal — the emphasis on adding jobs was the top concern for the union’s leadership.

“What we were looking for was jobs, jobs, jobs, and that’s what we came away with,” Joe Ashton, a U.A.W. vice president, said at a media briefing here on Tuesday.

The union estimates that G.M. will create or preserve 6,400 jobs over the next four years, mostly by hiring new, entry-level employees but also by retaining work in the United States that was going to move to Mexico.