Analyst: GM could borrow from UAW health care fund queryvar=”analyst:,gm,could,borrow,from,uaw,health,care,fund”; David Barkholz Automotive News | July 3, 2008 – 1:52 pm EST     DETROIT — Could General Motors tap the prospective UAW retiree health care fund for cash? JPMorgan analyst Himanshu Patel thinks so. In a report and conference call today, Patel said [...]

Jean Halliday Automotive News | July 2, 2008 – 12:25 pm EST It worked so well, GM extends financing incentive queryvar=”it,worked,so,well,gm,extends,financing,incentive”;     DETROIT (AdAge.com) — General Motors said its latest incentives on 2008 models will be extended because the promotion worked so well driving traffic in the final days of June. GM will extend [...]

      Thursday, July 3, 2008 Slow down, save money: Hurried drivers resist gas-conserving move Mike Wilkinson and Mark Hornbeck / The Detroit News Michigan drivers appear to be avoiding one of the few weapons they have to combat record fuel prices: the gas pedal. On the same day Gov. Jennifer Granholm suggested the [...]

Thursday, July 3, 2008 GM stock falls below $10 Company leads Dow Index into bear market;’ Bankruptcy is not impossible,’ analyst says Christine Tierney and Brian J. O’Connor / The Detroit News General Motors Corp. shares sank Wednesday to their lowest level in more than 50 years after brokerage firm Merrill Lynch raised the specter [...]

Thursday, July 3, 2008 Rebuttal UAW fights to keep good-paying auto jobs James Harbour, who attacks members of our union for exercising their democratic rights, built a lucrative business as a manufacturing consultant ("UAW gives comfort to Big 3 competitors," June 26). Harbour is now retired — but just imagine his reaction if one of [...]

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Opinion UAW gives comfort to Big 3 competitors Strikes help Japanese, hurt promising U.S. vehicles James E. Harbour I’ve often wondered what passes for strategic thinking at Solidarity House. The United Auto Workers union says little about this publicly, but it looks like the union is sticking with a familiar theme: [...]