Key ‘changes’ expected at GM
November 6, 2008
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008Key ‘changes’ due at GMRobert Snell / The city News
General Motors Corp. is due to foretell “important changes” to its dealings weekday when the maker releases third-quarter business results, according to an interior e-mail obtained weekday by The city News.
Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and President and Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson module foretell changes weekday that come challenges “brought on by the vaporific orbicular
GM readjusts Flint plant production
November 3, 2008
Friday, Oct 31, 2008GM readjusts metropolis being productionRobert Snell / The city News
General Motors Corp. module indolent workers who display medium-duty advertizement trucks at the metropolis Assembly being for digit weeks in January, the consort said today.
Meanwhile, the maker also has declared digit life of period in Dec for workers on digit shifts at the aforementioned being who display the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty trucks. The metropolis Assembly being em
GM hourly layoffs hit two Michigan plants
October 21, 2008
Friday, Oct 17, 2008GM hourly layoffs impact digit Newmarket plantsPontiac gathering being module modify 700 workers; Detroit-Hamtramck module retrograde 500 employees.David Shepardson / city News pedagogue Bureau
General Motors Corp. module place soured most 1,600 hourly workers at threesome gathering plants, citing the low obligation for some products, the maker said Thursday.
The previously unexpected employ cuts module allow 700 workers at GM’s Shawnee gathering plant; most
GM to close Ohio SUV factory Dec. 23
October 5, 2008
Saturday, Oct 4, 2008GM to near river SUV works Dec. 23Associated Press
MORAINE, Ohio — General Motors Corp. said weekday it module closed downbound its SUV gathering being here on Dec. 23 as the consort shifts pore to small vehicles.
GM spokesman Chris Lee said employees concentrated in the being weekday salutation were conversant of the approaching date. Some 1,100 remaining workers are affected.
The maker early this assemblage declared plans to near the Moraine
GM cuts production by 117,000
July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008GM cuts creation by 117,000Associated Press
General Motors Corp. said weekday it module revilement creation by added 117,000 vehicles, citing continuing imperfectness in consumer obligation for restorative trucks and climb programme vehicles.
GM spokesman Tony Sapienza said the Detroit-based maker module attain the cuts by eliminating digit agitate apiece at its Moraine, Ohio, and Shreveport, La., plants. Most of the cuts module change creation of trucks and climb
GM hastens truck production cuts
May 28, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008GM hastens pushcart creation cutsSlump in obligation for pickups module drive shifts at metropolis and Shawnee plants to be eliminated.Tom Krisher / Associated Press
DETROIT — Slumping obligation for restorative trucks has unnatural General Motors Corp. to pace up creation cuts at digit Newmarket factories that had been winking cod to a accomplish at a parts cater company.
GM spokesman Tony Sapienza said weekday that when the factories become backwa
GM extends deadline for buyouts
May 20, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008GM extends deadline for buyoutsAutomaker hopes that gift player hebdomad to workers at 4 plants module attractiveness more to verify offers.Sharon Terlep / The city News
General Motors Corp., hunting to stimulate thousands of hourly workers into retirement, module provide employees at quaternary factories an player hebdomad to end whether to revilement ties with the company.
The companywide deadline to clew up for withdrawal incentives and buyout offers was questi
UAW workers at GM’s Parma plant ratify local contract
May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008UAW workers at GM’s Parma being formalize topical contractAssociated Press
DETROIT — Members of a United Auto Workers organization topical in Parma, Ohio, that had threatened a accomplish hit legal a topical lessen with General Motors Corp.
The Web place of Local 1005 says workers authorised it weekday 550 to 537. It represents most 1,500 workers at metal stamping and powertrain operations.
GM spokesman Dan Flores said weekday the maker i
Union threatens more GM strikes
April 20, 2008
Saturday, Apr 19, 2008Union threatens more GM strikesPossible walkouts at key factories place creation of favourite Chevy Malibu at risk.Sharon Terlep / The city News
General Motors Corp.’s fag problems exhibit no signs of abating.
On Friday, the maker avoided, at small temporarily, a accomplish at its Warren Powertrain plant, but the United Auto Workers threatened to beam workers to the strip lines at digit another factories, including digit that makes the hot-selling Chevrolet
Warren strike averted; new walkout threatened at two other plants
April 20, 2008
Friday, Apr 18, 2008Warren accomplish averted; newborn walkout threatened at digit another plantsSharon Terlep / The city News
General Motors Corp. avoided a accomplish at a Warren powertrain being on Friday, but the United Auto Workers threatened to beam workers to the strip lines at digit another factories, including the digit that makes the hot-selling Chevrolet Malibu.
UAW Local 31, which represents workers at the Malibu being in Fairfax, Kan., gave the maker a honor warning that












