{"id":2191,"date":"2006-02-17T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2006-02-17T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T10:08:09","slug":"surviving_globa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Globalism &#8211; Caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/forbes\/2006\/0227\/044.html\">Joann Muller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Caterpillar confronted the same labor costs and Asian competition that the auto companies did. But Cat is doing just fine. Why?<\/p>\n<p>A Midwest manufacturing company, fat and lazy, heavily unionized, suddenly faces foreign competition. You know the ending: massive layoffs, closed factories, consolidation, rumblings of bankruptcy. That&#8217;s the familiar story of General Motors, Ford and lots of other big manufacturers over the last 20 or 30 years. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Great article, particularly in contrast to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/004533.php\">GM&#8217;s challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joann Muller: Caterpillar confronted the same labor costs and Asian competition that the auto companies did. But Cat is doing just fine. Why? A Midwest manufacturing company, fat and lazy, heavily unionized, suddenly faces foreign competition. You know the ending: massive layoffs, closed factories, consolidation, rumblings of bankruptcy. That&#8217;s the familiar story of General Motors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}