Firstly, he was employed to get rid of people. He was on the losing side of an argument to return the 65 in the CTC to his own business. Frankly, the CEO has lost faith in his and his superior's industrial and business strategy.
Secondly, to anyone who had heard him speak on the subject, he displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of industrial relations in this country. He simply could not get why things were the way they were here vs the way they were in the Good Ol' US of A. Sometimes his tone came across as "how dare we?"
Both factors make his position untenable.