Paragraph 96 Moves Announced for Spring Hill The International UAW has contacted me and discussed the number of Paragraph 96 moves that will be offered to our members in Spring Hill. The total number of Production Jobs being offered to transfer to Lansing is 775.   The total number of Skilled Trades jobs is 65. [...]

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DSRA chief recants bash on union   Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:00 am | Updated: . By Patrick Munsey staff writer pmunsey@kokomoperspective.com The head of the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association (DSRA) wants to set the record straight. Union workers aren’t the beer-drinking clock-punchers he made them out to be. They’re actually important to the [...]

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November 11, 2009   Second shift returning to GM Delta plant   Lansing State Journal DELTA TWP. – General Motors Co. is bringing back the second shift at its Lansing Delta Township assembly plant.   The move, announced today, comes after first-shift workers returned to their jobs Monday after a weeklong layoff. Workers were idled [...]

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GM, not Germany, should pay to fix Opel, minister says Automotive News | November 12, 2009 – 12:01 am EST BERLIN (Reuters) — German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle gave General Motors Co. little hope Wednesday that it will get state aid to restructure Opel. "I expressed my expectation that General Motors should basically carry out [...]

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Buick hopes Regal revives Buick’s performance pedigree queryvar=”buick,hopes,regal,revives,buicks,performance,pedigree”; Rick Kranz Automotive News | November 12, 2009 – 12:15 am EST   Can Buick capitalize on its performance history from over a generation ago? That’s the intent of the 2011 Regal, a German-assembled, front-drive sedan that is essentially a rebadged five-passenger Opel Insignia. U.S. sales begin [...]

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