GM extends planned idling of Spring Hill plant Associated Press – June 9, 2009 9:05 AM ET SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) – A planned idling of the General Motors auto assembly plant in Spring Hill has been extended from five weeks to eight weeks. The shutdown will extend through July 24, then resume for the [...]
The UAW is Poised For Growth – Are Toyota, Honda, and Nissan Ready? Posted by admin (Jason) in June 8th, 2009 Posted in: Auto News For years, casual observers of the auto industry were quick to point to the UAW as a source of trouble for GM, Chrysler, and Ford. Tales of do-nothing jobs banks [...]
June 8, 2009 Tennessean.com Sen. Corker should not campaign at UAW halls John Ruff GOODLETTSVILLE 37072 To the Editor: Well, Mr. Corker, this should be a red-letter day for you and some of your colleagues in Washington. You blamed all the problems with the auto industry on the United Auto Workers (UAW). You thought we [...]
Posted on Mon, Jun. 08, 2009 Layoffs at Sika’s plant look permanent By RANDOLPH HEASTER The Kansas City Star With the auto industry continuing to shrink, what was expected to be a temporary furlough of 100-plus workers at a Grandview factory looks more permanent. Sika Corp. said that 107 employees were laid off last [...]
Monday, June 8, 2009, 12:32pm CDT | Modified: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 9:43am GM to lay off 887 workers in Wentzville St. Louis Business Journal – by Kelsey Volkmann Scott Schultz View Larger General Motors Corp., which filed for bankruptcy last week, plans to cut a shift from its Wentzville plant and lay off 887 [...]
GM will kill medium-duty truck unit after failing to find buyer queryvar=”gm,will,kill,medium-duty,truck,unit,after,failing,to,find,buyer”; Jamie LaReau Automotive News | June 8, 2009 – 12:02 pm EST General Motors will shut down its medium-duty truck business by July 31 after a four-year search failed to find a buyer. The operations, which produce the Chevrolet Kodiak and [...]
THE GM BANKRUPTCY Jesse Snyder Automotive News | June 9, 2009 – 10:42 am EST Ex-AT&T boss Whitacre to be chairman of the ‘New GM’ queryvar=”ex-at&t,boss,whitacre,to,be,chairman,of,the,new,gm”; Edward Whitacre Jr., former chairman and CEO of telecommunications giant AT&T Inc., today was selected to become chairman of the new General Motors when the automaker emerges [...]
