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 week of [...]
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 and $70/hour compensation were [...]
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 should take cuts in pensions, [...]
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 December at its Grandview plant, which [...]
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
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General Motors Corp., which filed for bankruptcy last week, plans to cut a shift from its Wentzville plant and lay off 887 workers or nearly half its hourly work [...]
GM will kill medium-duty truck unit after failing to find buyer
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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, [...]
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’
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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 from bankruptcy.
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