General Motors plans to invest $1.5 billion to bring the “next generation” of midsize pickup trucks to the market, with the majority of that investment going toward the company’s suburban St. Louis plant. The Wentzville truck plant will receive roughly $1 billion of those funds to upgrade the facility as it prepares for the new […]
GM to Invest $1B in Missouri Plant…
GM, LG Chem to Create $2.3B Battery Cell Venture for Electric Vehicles, to Create 1,100 Jobs in Ohio…
General Motors and LG Chem will invest up to $2.3 billion by 2023 to form a joint venture in Ohio for the production of battery cells for electric vehicles. The companies plan to build a battery cell factory in the Lordstown area of northeast Ohio. Construction of the plant, which is expected to be among […]
Thousands More Auto Workers Furloughed with More Layoffs Coming as GM and Suppliers Idle Plants in UAW Strike…
Thousands of Canadian auto industry workers have been furloughed, with more temporary layoffs coming, as negotiations on a new labor contract between General Motors and the United Auto Workers drags into a fifth day. Jerry Dias, president of Canadian trade union Unifor, which represents GM and other auto workers in Canada, said in an interview […]
Nearly 50k General Motors Employees Go On Strike After Union Talks Break Down…
About 49,000 General Motors employees walked off the job at midnight Monday after negotiations between their union and the Detroit car giant unraveled over wages, health care, job security and other issues. It’s the United Auto Workers’ first nationwide strike since 2007. Negotiations that had been ongoing since July came to a head Sunday afternoon, […]
President Trump Tells General Motors and UAW to Get Their Act Together – Lordstown Ohio, Auto-Plant…
Calling attention to the brutally obvious is a key element to President Trump’s use of Twitter. In this example President Trump (the business executive) highlights how GM is shutting an Ohio auto-plant at the same time multiple auto manufacturers are expanding operations in the U.S. President Trump tweete – “Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO […]
Letter: GM to Terminate 1,298 Salaried Employees…
Consistent with the “Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification Act” (W.A.R.N.), General Motors LLC, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, are providing notice of layoffs that will be affecting salaried employees at its GM Warren Technical Center…
GM Discovers That Government Bailouts Come with Golden Chains Attached…
General Motors recently announced that it will stop production and lay off some 15,000 employees at several U.S. and Canadian facilities. The announcement elicited a predictable outburst of indignation from President Trump. He said in a Twitter tirade that his administration is “looking into cutting all @GM subsidies, including … for electric cars.” That’s a […]
Union Leader: ‘GM won’t close plants without one hell of a fight’…
The Trump Administration can’t say they weren’t warned. Marry Barra is meeting with Trump Chief Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow on Monday after announcing that the company would lay off as many as 14,700 workers in key swing states that helped elect Trump in 2016. Barra warned the administration over the summer that auto tariffs would […]
‘The Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom by Chris Hedges…
A 65-year-old New York City cab driver from Queens, Nicanor Ochisor, hanged himself in his garage March 16, saying in a note he left behind that the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft had made it impossible for him to make a living. It was the fourth suicide by a cab driver in New York in […]