Ron Gettelfinger

Posted: September 3, 2009 10:56 AM

 The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform
 
Our Labor Day celebrations this year will be touched by sadness for the loss of our great friend Ted Kennedy.
 
A frequent visitor to UAW local union halls, he liked to tell us about his first day as a senator in [...]

September 3, 2009

Bill would add $216M to new vehicle research

By Justin Hyde
Free Press Washington Staff
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House will consider a proposal this month from Rep. Gary Peters that would boost federal spending on research into new vehicle technologies by $216 million.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, will make [...]

September 4, 2009

Chairman’s blunt talk rocks GM execs

 
BY TOM WALSH
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Ed Whitacre Jr., the blunt-speaking new chairman of General Motors Co., is clearly rattling the long-too-comfy cages of GM’s management ranks.
On Wednesday, Whitacre told a group of GM salaried staff — in one of several "diagonal slice" meetings, so called because they mix people [...]