Thursday, May 8, 2008 Manny Lopez Obama’s rip on auto infamy is a clunker Barack Obama’s auto ignorance rolls on. The Democratic senator from Illinois, who is running for president on a platform seemingly based on bashing Michigan’s leading industry, told an Indianapolis radio station recently that the 1970s Ford Granada he drove was perhaps [...]

Thursday, May 8, 2008 Axle union reps leave talks But dialogue goes on in 72-day strike at car supplier Eric Morath / The Detroit News United Auto Workers negotiators from out-of-town union locals were not at the bargaining table Wednesday with top American Axle officials, but talks continued to try to end the 72-day strike [...]

April Wortham Automotive News | May 7, 2008 – 3:00 pm EST   Complaint will delay UAW revote at JCI plant   queryvar=”complaint,will,delay,uaw,revote,at,jci,plant”;     Johnson Controls Inc. has agreed to toss out the results of a March election in which workers at its Alabama factory voted down the UAW. But a separate charge of [...]

Automotive News | May 7, 2008 – 3:10 pm EST   Fitch says GM, Ford face heavy cash drains   queryvar=”fitch,says,gm,ford,face,heavy,cash,drains”;     DETROIT (Reuters) — General Motors and Ford Motor Co. will continue to face heavy cash drains in 2008 and are expected to burn cash through 2009 unless industry sales rebound, Fitch Ratings [...]