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16/05/2008

Solidarity with Strikers at American Axle and Manufacturing AAM

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

16/05/2008

UAW Local 31 is on Strike - Fairfax plant, Kansas City

As of Thursday, May 15, 2008 the Strike still continues.

16/05/2008

CAW reaches tentative settlements with General Motors and Chrysler

The CAW reached tentative settlements with both General Motors and Chrysler that meet the pattern established with Ford. The CAW represents close to 13,000 General Motors workers and 8,000 Chr...

15/05/2008

Canadian Autoworkers Union: Manufacturing matters: March and Rally, June 1

On Sunday June 1, CAW members in Oshawa and the surrounding area will take to the streets nearby the riding of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, demanding immediate government action to s...

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15/05/2008

CAW, GM reach tentative contract deal

The Canadian Auto Workers union confirmed Thursday it has reached a tentative contract deal with General Motors. No details are available on what that deal might look like. The union is slated...

15/05/2008

GM cancelled health care benefits for strikers at Delta Township plant in the US!

GM canceled health care benefits for the striking workers at the Delta Township plant in Michigan in the US on Wednesday. GM Management argued that it was not an obligation to offer health car...

15/05/2008

Question-do you have an ESOP at your plant?

GM-Daewoo Branch of Korean Metal Workers' Union asked me to ask on the blog whether GM operated any Employee Stock Ownership Programs (ESOP) in any country. If you have an ESOP at your locatio...

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14/05/2008

GM will need to raise a lot of cash until 2010

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...

13/05/2008

Report on Uzbekistan - the country where GM is heavily investing money in a plant in the eastern region

Here is another report on the situation of human rights in Uzbekistan and the Andijan massacre which happened in 2005 not so far away where GM is now located with a plant. GM is sending Engine...

12/05/2008

CAW President Frustrated and Angered by News of Windsor Transmission Plant Closure

After General Motors announced today that it will close its Windsor Transmission plant in 2010, eliminating 1,400 jobs, CAW President Buzz Hargrove said he is both frustrated and angered by th...

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