April 28, 2009 Salaried at GM should expect more cuts BY JEWEL GOPWANI FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER As General Motors Corp. prepares to close more plants and shed more hourly workers, the automaker warned Monday that its salaried workforce also should expect further cuts. "We’re going to go deeper. I anticipate that we will [...]
April 28, 2009 Which GM factories are likely to close By Greg Gardner Free Press Business Writer General Motors still hasn’t identified the 16 plants — the number established in its Feb. 17 filing with the federal government — that it will close or idle by the end of 2012. But these seem vulnerable: [...]
April 28, 2009 UAW could put VEBA on shaky ground Union agrees to take half from Detroit 3 BY GREG GARDNER FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER With ranks of active UAW workers shrinking and the pool of retirees growing, the union’s decision to accept half of what General Motors and Chrysler owe to the retiree [...]
Chrysler-UAW agreement said to give union 55% stake Deal also would allow more lower-wage workers queryvar=”chrysler-uaw,agreement,said,to,give,union,55%,stake”; David Barkholz Automotive News | April 28, 2009 – 12:09 am EST UAW local chiefs late Monday unanimously approved labor concessions that would cut Chrysler LLC’s cash payments to a retiree health-care trust in exchange for 55 [...]
