November 29, 2009 From CEO on down, GM is focusing on faster decisions and solutions BY TIM HIGGINS FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER Six months after filing for bankruptcy, General Motors Co. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson’s days are fundamentally different. He’s running an automaker that has $42.6 billion in cash instead of $90 billion in negative [...]
£90m in bonuses for GM German workers By Tom Mcghie Last updated at 9:00 PM on 28th November 2009 All 25,000 General Motors car workers at Opel in Germany will get a £3,600 Christmas bonus this year while their colleagues at Vauxhall in the UK suffer a five per cent pay cut, company [...]
November 28, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091128/AUTO01/911280375 GM says production at Ohio plant to end Jan. 29 ASSOCIATED PRESS Mansfield, Ohio — General Motors Co. says production at a stamping plant in Ohio is expected to end Jan. 29. The automaker announced in May that it would shutter the Mansfield/Ontario Metal Center plant. Since then, about 600 workers [...]
End of the Line? Future unwritten as Spring Hill plant goes idle By WILLIAM BOWERS and SKYLER SWISHER/ staff writers A notice at the GM Welcome Center in Spring Hill tells visitors that plant tours have been canceled as above hangs a banner of the Chevy Traverse and above that a banner from the Saturn [...]
Spring Hill GM plant is idled JILL CECIL WIERSMA, Gannett Tennessee SPRING HILL — At its peak, about 7,800 people clocked in daily for work at the Saturn plant. "Now we’re down to 630 people," said Darren Tonoli, a General Motors employee of nearly three decades. The plant goes on standby Wednesday, turning away about [...]
General Motors Plant In Spring Hill Produces Final Vehicle Posted: wnRenderDate(‘Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:50 PM EST’, ”, true); Nov 25, 2009 5:50 PM CST Photo by Jack Cobb Photo by Jack Cobb Photo by Joe McClure By Mark Bellinger SPRING HILL, Tenn. – The last Chevy Traverse came off the assembly line Wednesday in Spring [...]
November 24, 2009 GM plant shaped Spring Hill history Saturn put Spring Hill on the map and paved the way for it to become one of the country’s fastest-growing communities. Here’s a short recap of how it all came together: June 1982 — General Motor’s Advanced Engineering staff first discusses new small-car project. The city’s [...]
Idle GM Plant Forces Workers to Regroup (transcript) Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 By Blake Farmer Two-thousand General Motors employees will lose their jobs this week as the company idles most of its operation in Spring Hill tomorrow. Many of those displaced workers are faced with a choice: try to transfer to Michigan or test [...]
November 23, 2009 GM to idle Lansing Grand River plant Shutdown will last one week Kevin Polzin Lansing State Journal General Motors Co. said today it will idle the Lansing Grand River assembly plant next week. The move will put about 1,000 workers on a layoff that starts Nov. 30. Workers will be back on [...]
Feds offer enhanced benefits, but NUMMI workers push for new production By George Avalos Oakland Tribune Updated: 11/25/2009 09:01:20 AM PST var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } Autoworkers at the NUMMI plant are happy to get a fresh flavor of government [...]
November 26, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091126/OPINION03/911260331 Howes: Toyota not looking so shiny now DANIEL HOWES Is the Toyota Motor Corp. juggernaut losing its conqueror-of-the-world mojo? Because if it was a Detroit automaker that was recalling 4.26 million vehicles to repair accelerator problems, or if it was a Detroit automaker that had broken its historic no-plant-closings pledge, or [...]
November 26, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091126/AUTO01/911260411 Pontiac reaches end of the line DAVID PHILLIPS Special to The Detroit News Orion Township — The ride is over for the brand that put rolling excitement on the road for generations of Americans. General Motors Co. built the last Pontiac for the U.S. market Wednesday: a white, G6 sedan that rolled off [...]
GM to build Buick Regal in Canada, restore 600 CAW jobs queryvar=”gm,to,build,buick,regal,in,canada,restore,600,caw,jobs”; David Barkholz Automotive News | November 25, 2009 – 11:33 am EST General Motors Co. said its all-new, 2011 Buick Regal sedan will be built in Oshawa, Ontario, restoring 600 assembly jobs. Production will begin in the first quarter of 2011, GM [...]
Labor boss outlines where GM’s ax will fall at Opel/Vauxhall queryvar=”labor,boss,outlines,where,gms,ax,will,fall,at,opel/vauxhall”; Automotive News | November 26, 2009 – 1:56 am EST RUESSELSHEIM (Reuters) — General Motors Co. has targeted Germany for the bulk of 9,000 planned job cuts at Opel, turning the tables on the country that lobbied hardest for an Opel sale to [...]
GM worker looks to preserve past By GREG MENZA Story created Nov 20, 2009 – 17:24:02 EST. www.springhillautomuseum.org. Donald Parent put in nearly 25 years as a Saturn/GM employee. With the closing of the Spring Hill plant Wednesday, Parent is about to embark on a new endeavor. Parent is looking [...]
