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 "the worst car that [...]

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 against the Detroit-based auto [...]

April Wortham
Automotive News | May 7, 2008 - 3:00 pm EST
 
Complaint will delay UAW revote at JCI plant
 

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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 unfair labor practices against the supplier could [...]

Automotive News | May 7, 2008 - 3:10 pm EST
 
Fitch says GM, Ford face heavy cash drains
 

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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 said on Wednesday.
GM, which lost a [...]