Friday, July 24, 2009
GM to transfer Grand Rapids workers to Indiana plant
Associated Press
Marion, Ind. — General Motors Co. is transferring about 85 workers from its recently shuttered Grand Rapids plant to a plant in north-central Indiana.
GM spokeswoman Alicia Kocher says the workers will transfer to GM’s Marion metal stamping plant over the next three weeks. [...]

Friday, July 24, 2009
Daniel Howes
Insiders at new GM same as they ever were

Outsiders? They don’t need no stinkin’ outsiders to run the post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. — at least not on the management team detailed Thursday.
The government-appointed board of directors is something else altogether, long as it is on outsiders from Wall Street, the [...]

Automotive News | July 24, 2009 – 7:46 am EST
 
Japan sends U.S. letter on ‘Buy American’ worries
 
Ambassador worries about government preference for GM, Ford and Chrysler
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TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan has sent a letter of concern to the United States on a bill recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, which contains a provision [...]

More than 200 leave GM, others could return
Reported by: Karen Hopkins
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 @09:21pm

 
There’s a 3 pm deadline Friday for GM workers to take a company buyout package. The automaker’s announcement the plant will shut down by 2012 sped up the decision for some employees. More than 200 will hit the road, according to [...]

Bloomberg: Toyota to Close California NUMMI Plant in July

By Robert Farago
July 23, 2009
 
 

July 23, 2009, 8:13 pm
5 Directors Added to New G.M. Board

 
General Motors filled out its new board on Thursday and announced a wave of management changes, including the retirements of several longtime executives and the elimination of some vice president jobs, Nick Bunkley of The New York Times reported.
The Treasury Department named four more [...]