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 net worth.
Instead of spending [...]
£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 sources have confirmed.
But the Germans [...]
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 have retired or taken [...]
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 days with [...]
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 2,000 hourly employees [...]
General Motors Plant In Spring Hill Produces Final Vehicle
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By Mark Bellinger
SPRING HILL, Tenn. – The last Chevy Traverse came off the assembly line Wednesday in Spring Hill, and nearly 1,400 [...]
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 population was 986 [...]
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 the job market here [...]
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 the job Dec. 7, GM [...]
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
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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 if it was a [...]
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 the assembly line in Orion [...]
GM to build Buick Regal in Canada, restore 600 CAW jobs
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David Barkholz
Automotive News | November 25, 2009 – [...]
Labor boss outlines where GM’s ax will fall at Opel/Vauxhall
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GM worker looks to preserve past
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GREG MENZA
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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 [...]
