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Free videos of the November 18th Senate hearing on the domestic automobile industry are available on CSPAN's webpage

als gm daadwerkelijk chapter 11 zou aanvragen wat zijn de gevolgen dan voor opel zou het hier dan ook ,tot dat kunnen leiden en een sluiting als gevolg hebben ?

According to the media the board of directors of General Motors is considering bankruptcy despite that CEO Rick Wagoner had called this "not an option". A lot of people are now wonde...

Medienberichten zufolgen hat das Direktorium von General Motors in Detroit (Board of Directors) im Gegensatz zum GM Chef Rick Wagoner eine Insolvenz in Betracht gezogen. Spekuliert wird nun au...

Het initiatief om de Amerikaanse auto-industrie te redden is al weer van tafel. Luttele uren nadat twee Democratische en twee Republikeinse Senatoren hadden aangekondigd dat zij een akkoord ha...

Autobouwer General Motors verkeert in slechte papieren. Mogelijk valt het bedrijf nog voor het einde van het jaar zonder geld. Analisten houden steeds meer rekening met een reddingsplan of...

Laut Süddeutscher Zeitung weist General Motors die zahlreichen Spekulationen über eine Pleite zurück, verschiebt aber gleichzeitig aus Finanznot die Entwicklung neuer Modelle.

Nobody really understands why the UAW does not inform the GM workers. GM is struggling for survival and the UAW does not comment on anything.

General Motors announced today the biggest quartely loss ever: 15.5 billion $!!

A news report on the affects for the workers and the community in Janesville, Wisconsin, US.

Look on the current Saturn Astra for the US. A great car which should be more promoted than it is.

Der größte US-Autobauer General Motors (GM) schließt im Rahmen seines geplanten Konzernumbaus vier Pickup-Werke in Nordamerika und will künftig mehr Kleinwagen und Crossover-Modelle produziere...

General Motors is closing four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico as surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles.

PART 22 - The vicious assault against the North American GM employees foretells of the next chapter in the company's global gameplan of aggression.

Part 21 - Stepping around the American legal restrictions that prevent solidarity pickets and all out sympathy strikes.

According to Reuters General Motors "will need to raise over $9 billion in financing over the next two years to refinance existing debt and to offset projected cash losses in its auto ope...

PART 19 - "Workers First" is one of many themes every May Day. Celebrations focus on the working class, their struggle, and their contribution to society.

I am sick and tired of the CRAP that Dick Dauch and American Axle is trying to dish to its employees and their families. I can’t believe that this man has the nerve to sit there and offer insu...

PART 18 - Rejecting the tentative agreement is the next step for strikers in reclaiming the dignity, integrity, and sense of self-worth towards a better deal for themselves, their families, an...

PART 17 - This powerful AAM striker's rally was a high-energy success that had one small victory that satisfied one of the workers objectives.

PART 16 - "One person has thrown a monkey wrench into the whole situation of what we have going on in this country"

PART 15 - Stocks & Baulks! What's going on?

PART 14 - The American Axle workers are at Day 57 in their struggle to fight the concession contract offered by General Motors / American Axle & Manufacturing.

PART 13 - Like dogs, Wall Street investors can smell fear and cowardice; they will attack the timid, and leave the strong alone

PART 12 - International support grows stronger for the AAM workers on strike.

PART 11 - The moneyed elites, the fabulously wealthy, are the minority. The majority, namely us, must now dominate this minority.

PART 10 - Cooler heads prevailed as the recalled AAM workers joined the AAM strikers and defied their would be dominators.

PART 9 - Put some grease on this axle assembly before the rising build up of heat, stress and friction rips it to bits!

PART 8 - A Day of Festivities during a lull between the great battles in the war against the neo-cons who want to bury America!

PART 7 - The 2008 AAM strike and the Global Climate Change.

PART 6 - Connect with the AAM strikers! Everyone can learn about the striker's website, their contact info, & the strike action summary.

PART 5 - Calling the VK that helped the Opel Bochum Site 2 - axles and gearbox workers fightback in 2004

PART 4 - YIKES: picky picky picky

PART 3 - Revving in neutral, General Motors finally runs out of gas. Next: GM's battery dies, its guidance system malfunctions, then goes dark.

PART 2 - THE AAM strikers reach extends to other parts makers and to other countries, shutting or curbing work at operations in Canada, the US and Mexico.

PART 1 - Rank and file workers defy the UAW administration and continue the transnational fighback to reclaim their share of the wealth.

General Motors: GMAC anncounces restructuring of N. American auto finance operation GMAC Financial Services today announced it is restructuring its N. American auto finance business to reduce...

38,7 Mrd. US Verlust. Großartige Leistung dieser drei Herren!! Gratulation. Wie in den englischen Artikel dazu zu lesen ist, sollen jetzt aller 74.000 Arbeiter in den USA Abfindungen angeboten...

General Motors on Tuesday announced a loss of $38.7 billion for 2008 and
said it would offer buyouts to 74,000 hourly workers.

Exklusiv: Opel Corsa für US-Markt nicht aus Europa

GM-Entwicklungsvorstand Bob Lutz will die nächste Generation des Opel Corsa nicht nur in den USA verkaufen. "Wir werden das Auto...

Der Vizepräsident der amerikanischen Automobilarbeitergewerkschaft (UAW), Cal Rapson, wird auf Vorschlag der IG Metall für den Opel und Powertrain Aufsichtsrat kandidieren.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, Frankfurt/Rüsselsheim/Detroit, November 26, 2007, IG Metall (IGM) – International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of...

Detroit might build Opel Zafira for European market
Automotive News Europe
November 5, 2007 -- 13:51 CET

I do not really understand why all the guys in the UAW who have opposed the UAW-GM contract do not even show one sign of solidarity for the Polish autoworkers and their struggle (at least not...

Dear GM Workers Blog Editors,
Don't know whether this may interest you or readers of your Blog, but in case it might, I'm linking below to a guest blog entry I posted this morning at Cong...

UAW members have voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement with General Motors. The vote was 66 percent in favor of the four-year pact among production workers, and 64 percent in f...

LORDSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - The biggest United Auto Workers local at the GM Lordstown complex near Youngstown has approved a tentative contract agreement.

"Some people have trouble allowing people coming after them to make less. If previous workers had done that to us, we all would be making less."

Can the militancy and solidarity of the rank and file hold the line against these draconian concessions at GM, or will that task fall to the mighty Chrysler workers?

WASHINGTON (AP) - General Motors Corp. spent $6.2 million to lobby the federal government in the first half of 2007, including a high-profile effort to lobby against strict fuel economy standa...

by Al Benchich/UAW Local 909 President Warren, Michigan., posted today at www.futureoftheunion.com

NAchdem eine Einigung in den Verhandlungen zwischen GM und der Gewerkschaft UAW in den USA heute nicht erreicht werden konnte, befindet sich die Gewerkschaft und die 73.000 GM Beschäftigten se...