Archive for July 14th, 2009


Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Head of Obama auto team quits

July 14, 2009

Head of Obama auto team quits

Rattner’s work on bankruptcies is done

BY JUSTIN HYDE
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
WASHINGTON — Steven Rattner, the Wall Street financier who drew the Obama administration’s road map for guiding General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC through bankruptcy, will resign from the president’s auto task force, the administration said [...]

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

GM dumps sponsorships

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
GM dumps sponsorships
Judge lets automaker drop 54 contracts in move to slash costs in advertising
Robert Snell / The Detroit News
For General Motors, it’s lights out in the Big Apple and game over in Lansing.
A federal judge Monday let General Motors Co. shed dozens of sponsorship deals and pricey perks that included VIP [...]

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

President Obama meeting with AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters leaders

Report: President Obama meeting with AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters leaders
by Jonathan Oosting | MLive.com
Monday July 13, 2009, 2:48 PM

President Barack Obama is meeting this afternoon with a handful of labor leaders to discuss health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act, according to The Detroit News.

According to the bill’s title, the Employee Free Choice Act [...]

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