Posted: Friday, 13 November 2009 5:35AM Buyout Decisions Due For Chrysler UAW Workers Southfield (WWJ) — Thousands of Chrysler autoworkers have big decisions to make by the end of the day. The Auburn Hills-based company is giving hourly UAW workers until the end of the day Friday to decide if they’ll take early retirement offers. The automaker has [...]
November 12, 2009 GM moving 840 jobs from doomed Tennessee plant to Lansing area By BILL POOVEY Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Union workers at General Motors’ soon-to-be idled assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., were offered 840 jobs at the Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan, where GM is relocating production of the [...]
November 13, 2009 840 jobs in Tennessee may shift to GM Lansing plant BY TIM HIGGINS FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER General Motors Co. is offering Spring Hill, Tenn., UAW workers 840 jobs in the Lansing area as part of the automaker’s previously announced decision to move production of the Chevrolet Traverse to the Lansing [...]
November 12, 2009 Toyota may pay for joint closing ALAN OHNSMAN AND MAKIKO KITAMURA Bloomberg News Toyota Motor Corp. may shoulder almost all the costs to shut a California joint-venture plant as the owner of the former General Motors Corp.’s 50 percent stake doesn’t plan to fund expenses including worker severance [...]
November 12, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091112/BIZ/911120353 Germany will not help GM in restructuring of Opel Automaker denied financial resources to restructure unit and must repay bridge loans STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS A senior German government official told General Motors Co. executives Wednesday that the U.S. automaker will have to cover the cost of restructuring its troubled German [...]
November 12, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091112/AUTO01/911120474 Kansas Ford plant voting on strike over workload BRYCE G. HOFFMAN The Detroit News Workers at Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo., are holding a strike authorization vote today after a disagreement over workloads, but no work stoppage is expected. The dispute began during the company’s annual [...]
