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GM wants to dump leases on equipment at Parma stamping plant
By Robert Schoenberger, The Plain Dealer
November 05, 2009, 3:44PM
General Motors wants to dump another $131 million in equipment leases for stamping presses in Parma and other plants.
In filings last week in the [...]

November 6, 2009

Some GM workers to return to Delta
1,375 to go back; India strike still limits production

Barbara Wieland
bwieland@lsj.com
General Motors Co.’s Delta Township assembly plant will be back on line Monday, a week after it was shut down by a parts shortage brought on by an overseas strike.
However, production will be limited. The Detroit carmaker [...]

November 6, 2009
http://detnews.com/article/20091106/auto01/911060360

GM hourly workers face permanent layoffs

ROBERT SNELL
The Detroit News
Detroit — While General Motors Co. does not plan any deep job cuts, the automaker still has too many hourly workers and could permanently eliminate some of the 6,000 to 7,000 workers currently on layoff.
Some of the workers are temporarily or indefinitely laid off [...]

November 6, 2009

GM to ask Europe for help with Opel

But automaker might use U.S. aid after halting sale

BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
General Motors hopes to get European government help to restructure its German-based Opel division but could turn to some of the near-$50 billion in U.S. government money received earlier this year if need [...]

November 6, 2009

GM: No more big buyouts coming
Some hourly workers on layoff may go, CEO says

BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Despite being short of its U.S. hourly job-cutting goal for 2009, General Motors Co. is not planning another big round of buyout packages, the automaker’s top executive indicated Thursday.
Rather, some of the 6,000 to 7,000 [...]