Ex-UAW boss: New deals for carmakers necessary Fraser says pacts save jobs, make Detroit 3 more competitive Thursday, November 8, 2007 Tom Krisher / Associated Press DETROIT — A couple of years ago, Doug Fraser was teaching a class at Wayne State University on the future of organized labor, trying to predict what was down [...]

GM’s revival shaky Sagging home, auto sales, plus high gas prices cloud ’08 after 3rd quarter loss Thursday, November 8, 2007 Sharon Terlep / The Detroit News General Motors Corp.’s already fragile turnaround is in for a bruising 2008, when slow auto sales, a collapsing housing market and across-the-board uncertainty are expected to threaten hard-won [...]

GM health tab for 2007: $4.7 billion Automotive News | November 8, 2007 – 7:50 am EST DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors expects to spend $4.7 billion on healthcare in 2007 and sees reducing that expense as critical to its turnaround, the automaker said in a filing on Thursday. In its annual filing with the [...]