No, I would say that the news reports of those polls are careless.
In any event, you asked whether CEOs of large companies care about workers. CEOs of large companies are trying to remain in business and are trying to keep their companies operating. When they operate, they continue to employ people.
The issue here is that when a company is in trouble, when it's in distress—and it may be in distress because worldwide demand for newsprint has gone down, as in the case of AbitibiBowater, or it may be in distress because car sales in North America have fallen off a cliff and people aren't buying vehicles and can't get credit to buy vehicles—it needs credit to carry on and to pay its workers. If it cannot get those loans, then it has no choice but to go out of business and put workers out of their livelihoods.