Saturday, September 6, 2008
A century of General Motors
Driven by culture: GM’s cars take center stage in popular music, movies, TV shows
Susan Whitall / The Detroit News
For a century, General Motors Corp. has cast a huge shadow over American popular culture, its cars inspiring songs, movies, cartoons and TV shows.
Images of GM cars abound in American [...]
Saturday, September 6, 2008
GM ramps up recycling
More than 80 plants to be landfill-free after 2010
Robert Snell / The Detroit News
WARREN — General Motors Corp. plans to recycle or reuse all production waste and garbage at half of its factories around the world by the end of 2010, a move that could pour millions of dollars [...]
Friday, September 5, 2008
Chicago Ford plant to eliminate 600 part-time jobs
The Associated Press
Ford Motor Company says it’s cutting 600 part-time jobs at its Chicago assembly plant when it drops one of its two shifts by early November.
The automaker also says an unspecified number of hourly and salaried employees could lose their jobs at the plant, [...]
Friday, September 5, 2008
GM unveils Web site to rebut critics
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. unveiled a political-style Web site today to rebut what it called rumors and half-truths about the company.
The Web site, www.gmfactsandfiction.com, rebuts suggestions that GM’s lobbying for more than $25 billion in low-cost direct government loans [...]
