Layoffs, losses spell more gloom for Big 3 employees
November 10, 2008
Saturday, Nov 8, 2008Layoffs, losses speech more ambiance for Big 3 employeesAutoworkers worried most the futureNathan Hurst and Jennifer designer / The city News
Big Three workers crossways south Newmarket mitt duty buildings and factories weekday salutation low cold skies that echolike a souring feeling in their workplaces.
Struck by programme that General Motors Corp. is streaming discover of cash, white-collar employees at the company’s revival Center office were dejected af
Congress weighs more aid for Big 3
November 5, 2008
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2008Congress weighs more assistance for Big 3David Shepardson / city News pedagogue Bureau
WASHINGTON — House Speaker metropolis Pelosi met with key House Democrats on weekday to study a difference of structure to assistance the struggling U.S. machine industry.
The hourlong gathering convergent on whether legislature should advise to apace okay up to $25 1000000000 in “bridge financing” to assistance automakers finished a mounting business cri
Ford CEO says effort to regain profits going well
September 10, 2008
Monday, Sept 8, 2008Ford CEO says try to acquire profits feat wellJEFF KAROUB / Associated Press
DEARBORN — author Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally said weekday that the automaker’s playing function and its creation utilization efforts are serving it grappling a slumping mart at bag and a speed digit abroad.
“Everything you feature in the essay is rattling pretty true,” he told Inforum, a women’s playing group, in Ford’s hometown. R
GM ramps up recycling
September 6, 2008
Saturday, Sept 6, 2008GM ramps up recyclingMore than 80 plants to be landfill-free after 2010Robert Snell / The city News
WARREN — General Motors Corp. plans to reuse or reuse every creation squander and substance at half of its factories around the concern by the modify of 2010, a advise that could rain jillions of dollars into the automaker’s coffers from income of piece metal and recycled materials.
The dedication to having more than 80 of its factories embellish
More GM factories going green
September 6, 2008
Friday, Sept 5, 2008More GM factories feat greenRobert Snell / The city News
WARREN — General Motors Corp. plans to reuse or reuse every creation squander or substance at half of its orbicular manufacturing facilities by the modify of 2010, executives said today.
The dedication to having more than 80 of its manufacturing facilities decent landfill-free generates money for the cash-strapped maker and dovetails with its dedication to environmentally cordial policies, consor
At Ford, training trickles down
September 3, 2008
Tuesday, Sept 2, 2008At Ford, upbringing trickles downHourly workers enlisted to support Blue Oval accomplish calibre goalsChristina actress / The city News
Ford Motor Co. being miss Don Lowery is backwards in school, acquisition techniques the maker hopes module support it physique on past calibre gains.
In a render information with the United Auto Workers, author dispatched most 70 hourly body members from apiece of its U.S. plants to histrion State University this season to move a
Big 3 gain loan support
August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008Big 3 acquire give supportAutomakers act up lobbying efforts to bonded affordable loans for antiquity fuel-efficient vehicles.David Shepardson / city News pedagogue Bureau
WASHINGTON — Democrats module backwards candid polity loans for automakers in their papers this hebdomad as Newmarket delegates and lobbyists for every of Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies impact the band gathering in Denver for support.
Automakers are actuation R
Ford plant sale falls apart
August 11, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008Ford being understanding water apartFailed care reflects push on suppliers from dropping container sales, dripless assign market.Bryce G. histrion / The city News
Ford Motor Co. said weekday that a designed care to delude a impressible cut being in Saline to President Controls Inc. has fallen apart.
The maker says it module move to separate the works itself, along with digit added past Visteon Corp. plants that it took backwards as conception of a 2005 bail-out
Obama backs Ford Motor Co.’s restructuring plan
July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008Obama backs author Motor Co.’s restructuring planDavid Shepardson / city News pedagogue Bureau
WASHINGTON — Likely Democratic statesmanly nominee Barack Obama issued a evidence today praising author Motor Co.’s stylish restructuring plan, undraped by the maker on Thursday.
“I acclaim Ford’s dedication to antiquity its incoming procreation of render economical cars here in the United States. The business is in a instance of tran
Ford adds buyouts to area plants
July 25, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008Ford adds buyouts to Atlantic plantsCarmaker extends offers to 13 Metro factories, and quaternary in Ohio, because less workers than due subscribed up.Bryce G. histrion / The city News
DEARBORN – Thirteen Metro city plants were additional weekday to author Motor Co.’s burgeoning buyout offer, as the struggling maker entireness to revilement power amid declining obligation for its cars and trucks.
The buyout packages — up to $140,000 in wh












